A woman whose infant was permanently injured in the hours leading to his birth accepted $14 million on Oct. 5 to settle her medical malpractice suit, Palacios v. Favetta.
Rebecca Palacios went to Somerset Medical Center in Somerville while in labor on April 25, 2009. According to her lawyer, Gerald O’Connor of O’Connor Parsons & Lane in Westfield, the fetus showed signs of insufficient heart rate variability indicating distress, which was not detected by family practice resident Jaimenee Khemraj or nurses Marieta Jones and Dorothy DiFabio.
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