> I wonder how significant their negligence was to lead to a 250 million judgment.
The linked article makes it sound as if the accusation was entirely due to a bad diagnosis of a medical condition, which was easily contradicted by standard medical tests/imaging that was available to the hospital staff.
But make no mistake, a $250mil judgement has nothing to do with the significance of judgement, and everything to do with juries that make up ridiculous amounts which are later reduced on appeal.
bad diagnoses happens. Im more concerned that there was insufficient review to catch a bad diagnosis before the state took action, or in follow-up to a precautionary action.
Bad initial diagnoses, when the concern is purely medical, rarely cause problems outside of trauma. You get the shit scared out of you maybe, but the doctors/specialists ask for more followup tests just to be sure, and it gets sorted.
Bad initial diagnoses that are also criminal accusations have your kids sent to the rape orphanages for 5 months until a judge gets it settled.
> Im more concerned that there was insufficient review to catch a bad diagnosis before the state took action,
Well, same here. A few hostile glares from hospital staff are something I could weather, if 30 minutes later a second set of eyes tells the first that they're stupid and this is just an accident from whatever, and not shaken baby syndrome. Arguably, some minimally competent review would have caught not only this case, but many others.
The linked article makes it sound as if the accusation was entirely due to a bad diagnosis of a medical condition, which was easily contradicted by standard medical tests/imaging that was available to the hospital staff.
But make no mistake, a $250mil judgement has nothing to do with the significance of judgement, and everything to do with juries that make up ridiculous amounts which are later reduced on appeal.