A jury in Dallas County found the conduct of a hospital’s staff so egregious it awarded $10.1 million to a woman who suffered a spinal cord hemorrhage that left her a paraplegic.

Lead counsel for the plaintiffs, Judy Adams and her husband Richard Adams, said the burden to succeed on a claim of hospital liability for emergency medical services is heightened under the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code.

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