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$22 mil. award in childbirth death


Posted on Jan 21, 2008

$22 mil. award in childbirth death

January 17, 2008

A Cook County jury Tuesday awarded $22 million to the family of a woman who died in 2003 after giving birth in an emergency Caesarean section.

Attorneys said a doctor and nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston failed to properly treat Rachelle Bentivenga's high blood pressure, a release said. Her son was successfully delivered, but Bentivenga, 34, died four days later.

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