Erika Andrade v. William J. Gacso and Medical Anesthesiology Associates, P.C.: A mother who suffered a permanent spinal cord injury after an anesthesiologist botched a painkilling epidural injection during childbirth has been awarded $4.25 million.
On July 31, 2009, Erika Andrade went to St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport to give birth to her third child. Andrade, 33 at the time, had no prior history of back problems. According to one of her lawyers, Sean McElligott, of Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, Andrade needed an epidural to control pain. The anesthesiologist, William Gacso, who is now 78 years old, came in to perform the epidural after working for 24 hours straight.
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