A Philadelphia jury awarded $10.1 million to the mother of an 11-month-old whose bacterial meningitis was allegedly not promptly diagnosed during repeated emergency room visits to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the family’s lawyer said.
The 12-member jury Monday in Tillery v. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia found the hospital and one of three defendant emergency room doctors liable for Shamir Tillery’s injuries, which included hearing loss, central language disorder, developmental and learning delays and a loss of balance due to bone growth that affected his vestibular nerve.
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