Hospital failure caused baby to be born with disabilities, judge determines liability is a billion dollars

By WND Staff

A judge has assigned liability for disabilities suffered by a Wyoming baby to the hospital system that ran the facility where she was born, and it’s nearly a billion dollars.

A lawyer for the family of Azaylee Zancanella said the family should be able to collect a substantial sum, even if it’s not the full award of $951 million, from the corporation that closed and sold its hospitals.

A report at the Daily Mail noted the judge in the case emphasized the child would have been safer being born in “the bathroom of a gas station, or a hut somewhere in Africa.”

The pregnancy, which had been normal, took a turn in October 2019 when Anyssa Zancanella’s water broke during a trip from the family’s Wyoming home to Salt Lake City.

They rushed to Jordan Valley Medical Center West Valley Campus, which was operated at the time by the now defunct Steward Health Care, the report said.

There, the lawsuit charges, the mother as given “excessive” doses of Pitocin, a labor-inducing drug.

And then ignored.