Multi-Million dollar settlement for Cerebral Palsy Victim

Out of the Boston Area this morning.

The family of a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy has been awarded a multi-million dollar medical malpractice settlement.

NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that Dustin Turner was born with cerebral palsy after a traumatic delivery at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital.

Dustin can smile and gurgle, but those are his only means of communication. He has severe cerebral palsy, which his parents blame on his lack of oxygen during labor and birth.

For the rest of the story please see TheBostonChannel.com

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According to the Manchester Union Leader the amount of the settlement is $5 Million.

The parents of a severely brain-damaged New Hampshire boy will be awarded $5 million to pay for his long-term care, under a settlement of a lawsuit filed against the doctor and nurse who handled the boy's delivery at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital.

Michelle and Kendall Turner, of Bedford, N.H., sued Dr. Mitchell Zager and nurse Mary Doran after their son, Dustin, 5, was born on July 11, 2001, with severe neurological damage.

For the rest of that story Please see the UnionLeader.com


 

 

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latoya rich - November 27, 2007 12:26 AM

my daughter which is a year old now, caught meningitis after she was born. She caught meningitis and encephalitis while in the hospital because she was never released from the hospital after she was born, so it was from the hospital. it ate her brain and she has holes and bilateral intracerebral cysts all over brain also suffers from spastic and hemiplegia cerebral palsy in three limbs. she also has hydrocephlis of the brain

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