A Utah family has been awarded nearly $1 billion in damages after a botched 2019 delivery at a medical centre in West Valley City left their daughter with permanent brain damage.
The ruling, which marks the largest medical malpractice award in Utah's history, was handed down by Third District Judge Patrick Corum earlier this month. It held that the hospital, then run by Steward Health Care, was liable for gross negligence and called it 'the most dangerous place on the planet' to give birth.
