US EditionThe CHU of Rennes Sentenced to Pay More than 2.5 Million Euros After a Medical Error
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The Rennes Administrative Court ordered the CHU of Rennes to pay more than €2.5 million to parents and their disabled child as a result of a medical error at birth.
"The Caesarean section was delayed, which explains why the child was born with an extremely severe anoxia and a very, very, very severe disability," said the victim's lawyer, a young woman.
A quarter of a century. This is the time it took for justice to be done to a family faced with irreparable problems: the birth of a child who became heavily disabled as a result of a medical error. On 13 June 2025, the Rennes Administrative Court condemned the CHU to pay more than 2.5 million euros to the family of a patient who is now an adult, for the serious sequelae of a perinatal anoxia that occurred at his birth in 1999. An old but still b…
On Friday 13 June 2025, the CHU of Rennes was sentenced to pay more than €2.5 million to the family of a child who became disabled after a medical error at the time of his birth.
Three years after their daughter's death, Lola, a couple from Mont-de-Marsan, in the Landes, decided to file a complaint against the city hospital. On 6 October 2023, the medical corps did not detect in time the infection with Streptococcus B, causing fatal meningitis in the little girl.
Twenty-five years after an obstetrical fault resulting in a severe disability, the court ordered the hospital to pay 2.5 million euros to the victim's family. A judicial decision has just marked the end of a long fight for a Breton family. The court of Rennes has ordered the local CHU to compensate for the [...] The article Medical error at birth: the CHU of Rennes sentenced to a record compensation appeared first on Le Singulier.
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