{"id":163,"date":"2016-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/family-of-injured-child-reach-30-million-settlement\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:32:10","slug":"family-of-injured-child-reach-30-million-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/family-of-injured-child-reach-30-million-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of injured child reach $30 million settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hear about a lot of different types of medical malpractice cases but the stories that are often the hardest to hear about are those involving children. As parents, we will often trust medical professionals in terms of their treatment recommendations when our children are facing serious medical problems. We want what is best for our children and hope experienced medical professionals can help our family.<\/p>\n<p>A case involving a toddler has recently reached a settlement of $30 million to be paid to the family. The toddler apparently suffered a catastrophic brain injury due to surgical complications. The child reportedly underwent around 25 experimental surgeries after he was born with a leak in his esophagus in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The last surgery performed on the child was in 2011 and involved using a suturing device. That device <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/ct-malpractice-doctor-uic-0226-biz-20160225-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">severed the child\u2019s pulmonary artery<\/a>. The child currently deals with cerebral palsy and an irreversible brain injury. Other surgeries performed involved the use of a stent to fix the leak. The family\u2019s attorney says the doctor who performed the surgeries deviated from the acceptable standard of care and was medically careless.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/family-of-injured-child-reach-30-million-settlement\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Family of injured child reach $30 million settlement\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hear about a lot of different types of medical malpractice cases but the stories that are often the hardest to hear about are those involving children. As parents, we will often trust medical professionals in terms of their treatment recommendations when our children are facing serious medical problems. We want what is best for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Family of injured child reach $30 million settlement &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; March 8, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Family of injured child reach $30 million settlement - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/family-of-injured-child-reach-30-million-settlement\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Family of injured child reach $30 million settlement &#8212; 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