Alliant Hospitals, Inc. v. Benham
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KNOPF, Judge.
Soon after his birth on July 23, 1999, it became apparent that Zachary Benham had suffered brain damage. On Zachary’s behalf, his parents, Angel1 and Kevin Ben-ham, sued first the doctor who performed the delivery and later the hospital, Norton Hospital in Louisville, where the delivery took place. The Benhams alleged that the doctor had misused a device, a vacuum extractor, that had caused cerebral bleeding, and that the attending nurses had failed to respond appropriately to signs that during labor the fetus had become dangerously distressed. Following a jury trial in…
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