The parents of a baby girl whose scalp was disfigured after a doctor wrapped an ACE bandage around her head to treat swelling following her premature birth has been awarded $47 million by a federal jury.

A 12-member jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania returned the verdict in favor of plaintiffs Ian Harker and Corradina Baldacchino, parents of G.H. The couple sued Dr. John O. Chan and Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center.

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