A jury has awarded almost $14 million to a Chicago woman who sued her doctor for prescribing the birth control medication Yasmin, which the woman blamed for a disabling stroke and permanent brain injury.
Following a two-week trial before Cook County, Ill., Circuit Judge Edward Washington II, a jury of four women and eight men returned a verdict on April 18 against defendant Dr. Zbigniew Aniol, finding that he was negligent in his medical treatment of Mariola Zapalski and that his negligence caused her injuries.
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