Jury awards family $130 million in medical malpractice case

ROYAL OAK (AP) - A jury has awarded the family of a boy who suffered brain damage after being treated at a suburban Detroit hospital more than $130 million in a medical malpractice case.

The McKeen & Associates law firm announced the verdict Tuesday following a trial in Oakland County Circuit Court in Pontiac.

The firm says that in 2006 technicians at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak delayed calling a code blue and failed to give chest compressions as required by the standard of care to then-2-month-old Vihn Tran. The boy's brain was deprived of oxygen. He now suffers from cerebral palsy.

Beaumont Hospital says in a statement that it took the case before a jury because the hospital believes the care delivered "was appropriate."

The hospital plans to appeal.

Published: Thu, Sep 27, 2018