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US family awarded $13 million after woman given flu shot instead of birth-control injection resulting in pregnancy – 7NEWS.com.au
The child’s mother sued over the ‘wrongful life’, with lawyers saying she had endured a ‘long, hard road’.
A family of a severely disabled American child who was born when a nurse inadvertently gave a woman the flu shot instead of a birth control injection has been awarded $US10 million ($A13 million).
A federal judge in Seattle has awarded the child $US7.5 million for her medical, educational and other expenses, The Seattle Times reports.
Her parents were also awarded an additional $US2.5 million in damages.
At the trial, that took place earlier this year, it was found that the childs mother Yesenia…
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