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$4.3 million jury award for family after doctors fail to diagnose serious infection
Posted on Oct 26, 2009
The family of a girl whose enterovirus infection was not diagnosed until she suffered a variety of serious medical issues was awarded $4.3 million by a Florida jury. The verdict is long overdue for the family, who originally filed their lawsuit in 1996. A mistrial was declared in 2007, however the case went back to court this past August, leading to the recent jury award.
When baby Haylee Kroll was born in 1994, the doctors told her parents that the large bruises appearing on her body were nothing to worry about. By the time doctors finally figured out what was going on, she had suffered from jaundice, liver scarring and a blood clot in her brain.
A six-member Broward Circuit Court jury found two of the doctors in Haylee’s case guilty of medical malpractice, and determined that two other doctors were not liable. The hospital where Haylee was born, Coral Springs Medical Center, was not named in the suit.
The doctors, Sedigheh Zolfaghari and Jose Colindres, were accused of failing to recognize the seriousness of Haylee’s condition and failing to order blood and liver tests that would have revealed what was wrong with her.
Now 15 years old, Haylee Kroll suffers from lifelong disabilities, including vision problems, permanent cirrhosis of the liver and learning disabilities.
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