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Jury Awards $12.5 Million to Paralyzed Boy
In one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in Connecticut state history, a jury ordered Hartford Hospital to pay $12.5 million to a boy who became paralyzed from the neck down while awaiting surgery for a spinal tumor 7 years ago.
The award came after a 10-week trial and 5 days of deliberations. The boy, Justin Iriondo, was brought to Hartford Hospital when he was 5 years old after he complained of severe neck pain. Doctors diagnosed a spinal cord tumor, but before he was treated, complications developed and the child became a quadriplegic. After the verdict, Justin said, “I think justice was served.”
The jury agreed with the boy's lawyers that hospital workers failed to adequately monitor him and failed to react to a medical student's documentation that the boy had lost movement of his arms and legs. “He walked into the hospital, and everything went downhill very quickly after that,” said Justin's lawyer, Christopher Bernard, of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder in Bridgeport, CT. “It was not some sudden event that happened. He was clearly getting worse.”
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