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Were These Lawsuits Frivolous?
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Submitted for your review are three recent verdicts not likely to appear in any list of frivolous lawsuits.
CHICAGO -- A woman was awarded $35,835,684 by an Illinois jury for being rendered quadriplegic after she was hit by a speeding deputy's sheriff en route to a low-priority call (Margaret Petraski v. Cook County, No. 01-L-6368, Ill. Cir., Cook Co.).
PHILADELPHIA -- Twins were awarded a combined $13.2 million against a hospital for neurological damage they sustained in utero after their mother's urinary tract infection went undiagnosed (Lisa Kinney-Lindstrom, et al. v. Philip G. Sih, M.D., Morgan T. Smith, M.D., and Abington Memorial Hospital, No. 03-02926, E.D. Pa.).
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- A family was awarded $17 million for injuries their daughter sustained at birth which rendered her a spastic quadriplegic (Mark and Lori Pochron, et al. v. Monongalia General Hospital, et al., No. 03-FC-4, W.Va. Cir., Monongalia Co.).
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