MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

U.S. DISTRICT COURT, JACKSONVILLE

A child who suffered considerable brain damage at the time of birth received a partially structured settlement that should produce a $5 million recovery.

On Oct. 1, 2012, an infant was born via a vaginal birth. His mother, Jennifer Mochocki, was taken to Naval Hospital Jacksonville after going into labor. However, shortly after her son was born, he was diagnosed with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.

Mochocki and her husband, Sean Mochocki, claimed the hospital's physicians should have ordered a cesarean section immediately after discovering signs of fetal distress and the failure to do so caused the infant's brain damage. The hospital's operator, the federal government, agreed to the partially structured settlement.

Case: Mochocki v. United States of America

Case No.: 3:15-cv-00377

Plaintiffs attorneys: Sean B. Cronin and Michelle L. Davis, Cronin & Maxwell, Jacksonville; and Michael V. Nakamura, Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, Potomac, Maryland

Defense attorney: Roberto H. Rodriguez Jr., U.S. attorney's office, Jacksonville