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Verdicts

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
February 09, 2004

Settlement Made in Amputation Case

In the case of Gibbons v. Chhabra, a Bergen County, NJ, judge approved a $1.5 million medical malpractice settlement on Dec. 4th, 2003 for a child whose arm had to be partially amputated due to a severed artery. The injury occurred in the neonatal intensive care unit of a Hackensack, NJ, hospital where a 4-day-old baby was being cared for after his premature birth at about 30 weeks. Plaintiffs alleged that a doctor's attempt to place a long-term catheter line into the child's right armpit severed his artery. The child's arm had to be amputated below the elbow shortly thereafter. He now wears a prosthesis, which will have to be replaced as he grows. The plaintiffs alleged that the line should have been inserted in the scalp because the armpit was too risky a location. Judge Charles Walsh helped the parties reach agreement on Oct. 20, 2003. Judge Joseph Rosa approved the deal on Dec. 4, 2003, after a friendly hearing.

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