Ted Liggett was hired to represent a young family who underwent a horrific experience in the birth of their first and only child. This young mother had struggled unsuccessfully for years to have a child. When she was finally able to conceive, she presented to a teaching hospital for care.
The young mother then suffered several instances of malpractice at the hands of her medical providers, who were for the most part young interns and residents training at a teaching hospital under the supervision of an experience physician. Primarily, her doctors misread the diagnostic test and opined that it was an ectopic pregnancy and that the pregnancy must be terminated in order to save her life. This was untrue.
She was then administered drugs, which are commonly used in chemotherapy, to expel the fetus. This was not successful and it was then discovered that there was not an ectopic pregnancy at all. The young mother having struggled to have a child and not being informed of the damage that had been wrought by the drugs administered did not want to terminate the pregnancy. The pharmaceuticals administered to this young mother did not result in the termination of her pregnancy, however, they did result in the birth of a girl child who was blind, almost totally deaf, and severely damaged both physically and mentally.
The damages in this lawsuit were capped at $1,000,000.00, which sum was finally tendered after intensive and laborious litigation.
Total Recovery: $1,000,000.00