A jury in Okalossa County, Florida, has awarded $4.25million to the family of a woman who died after giving birth at Fort WaltonBeach Medical Center.

Wendy Leigh Jackson died when an aneurism in a renal arteryruptured about 16 hours after she gave birth to a son named Chaffin. TheJackson family filed a medical malpractice/wrongful death lawsuit in 2006 thatclaimed that three doctors – Wyndal K. Blankenship, Barry Riggs, and SaadRahman – were aware that Jackson was bleeding in her kidney.

David Swanick, lawyer for the Jackson family, said “The caserevolved around an ultrasound that showed blood near a kidney that nobodyfollowed up on… sixteen hours later they got in there, and it was too late.”The jury found Blakenship and Rahman liable, Riggs was exonerated.

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