Over in Utah, a state judge has just awarded a family nearly $1 billion in compensation

after a local hospital completely botched the delivery of their baby girl, to the point that

the baby will likely suffer from a lifetime of disabilities. Let me give you the backstory of what

led to this giant settlement.

Husband and wife, Anisa Zankenelli, and Daniel McMichael, they lived in Wyoming and they were

expecting a child together. Anisa was pregnant with a baby girl. However, on October 12th of 2019,

when the husband and wife were on a short vacation over in Salt Lake City, Utah,

and Nisa suddenly went into labor. And so she and her husband had to go, they were basically

forced to go to a local hospital for the delivery. Here's how the lawsuit describes what took

place at that local hospital. Quote, Zankele and McMichael had been on a short getaway in Salt

Lake City away from their Wyoming home

when the wife went into labor on October 12th, 2019, and was forced to deliver her girl at the local hospital, Jordan Valley Medical Center.

But the nurses, who'd only finished their training the day that Ms. Zankenelli was admitted, pushed excessive amounts of the labor-inducing drug

potosin for hours, despite alarm bells like the baby's blood pressure rising and the fact that the

drug wasn't working to dilate Ms. Zankele. When the nurses finally told the on-call doctor

about the baby's alarming blood pressure and the mom's fever, the doctor simply went back to sleep

in a room mere footsteps from where the labor was

underway. When the baby was delivered by a C-section, she had a misshapen head, a swollen face,

and bruising and bulging on the front of her scalp. The baby had to be airlifted to primary

children's hospitals' intensive care unit in Salt Lake City for a slew of complications involving

having been without sufficient oxygen during labor.

Now that is a nightmare. There's no other way to describe that situation.

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