Hospital Liable For Covering Up Child's Injury (Forensics Talk)

January 29, 2007

Hospital Liable For Covering Up Child's Injury

By Dick Dahl Staff writer

An Oklahoma jury ordered a university hospital to pay $18 million to parents who were investigated for abusing their 9-month-old son after a CAT-scan showed the boy had a fractured skull.

The injuries had actually occurred when a nurse at the hospital accidentally bumped the infant's head on a nightstand, but she failed to report the incident and the parents became the prime suspects.

Although this suit was filed as a straight medical negligence case, the last-minute evidence of the hospital's alleged cover-up prompted a $9 million punitive damage award, according to the plaintiffs' attorney, Gerald Durbin.

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