A 7-year-old Claremont girl paralyzed by a botched delivery will receive at least some of a recent $70 million court judgment against a medical insurance company. The case relates to the 1991 trial of 3 doctors accused of malpractice in the birth of Ashley Hughes, who was left a quadriplegic and on a ventilator. That $9.8 million has remained in limbo. In the recent suit, Ashley’s lawyer, Bruce Fagel, went back to court, this time with Dr. Jouvenat’s bankruptcy trustee as his plaintiff, to fight the medical insurance company. His argument? In the 1991 trial, the insurance company inadequately defended Dr. Jouvenat to protect the clients it insured, neonatologists Andrew Hsu and Yu-Shen Wu, who cared for Ashley after delivery. He explained that the insurance company had nothing to lose if the uninsured Dr. Jouvenat was found mostly to blame and forced to pay up. However, the more its clients were found at fault, the more the insurance company would have to pay.-The Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & Associates
A 7-year-old Claremont girl paralyzed
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