Hospital to pay $6.5M in birth injury case

An Illinois hospital has agreed to a $6.5 million settlement in the case of a baby girl injured during childbirth. The medical error occurred in 2000 at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where Denice Cisneros was in labor with her first child. A family practitioner and nurse failed to diagnose cephalic pelvic disproportion, a condition in which a baby's head is too large to fit