A $5 million settlement reached on behalf of an Essex County girl who suffered brain damage at birth was paid on Sept. 12 in Vinci v. Montemurro.

A portion of the settlement is being used to purchase an annuity for the girl, Natalia Vinci, which would make the projected total value of the settlement at $10,215,715, according to the plaintiffs lawyer, Daryl L. Zaslow of Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow in Edison.

Vinci is now 6 years old. On Aug. 26, 2013, the child's mother, Amanda Roman of Nutley, who was 23 at the time, suffered complications while giving birth at Mountainside Hospital. At 9:30 a.m., under the care of defendant Dr. Robert Montemurro, she began suffering labor pains, according to Zaslow.