A family has been award nearly a billion dollars after suing a Utah hospital for botching a mother's delivery and leaving the parents with a severely disabled baby.
Anyssa Zancanella was awarded $951 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit after a judge said her daughter, Azaylee, would have been safer being born in 'the bathroom of a gas station, or a hut somewhere in Africa.'
Zancanella said her healthy pregnancy with her first daughter began to awry after her water broke while on a short trip to the Salt Lake City area in October 2019.
Hours away from her doctor in her home state of Wyoming, the family rushed to Jordan Valley Medical Center West Valley Campus, which was operated at the time by the now defunct Steward Health Care.
While at the hospital, Zancanella's lawsuit said she was given 'excessive' does of Pitocin, a labor-inducing drug, and ignored by nurses and medical staff.
