The plaintiffs in this challenge include a group of current and former
Texas residents, each of whom is seriously injured due to medical
malpractice, who argue that without the state award cap in place, the facts
of their cases would prompt Texas juries to award non-economic damages far
greater than $250,000.
The plaintiffs include:
-- A Harrison County child severely and permanently brain damaged at birth
in 2004 as a result of undiagnosed and untreated fetal distress during
delivery;
-- Springs, in a persistent vegetative state after botched general
anesthesia given unnecessarily for a minor surgical procedure;
-- A Tom Green County woman whose physician, during a routine office
visit, paralyzed her with narcotics and then sexually assaulted her;
-- A Harris County man whose anal canal, rectum, bladder and perineum were
severely burned and permanently injured during a 2005 medical
procedure, causing excruciating pain and lifelong loss of bladder and
bowel control;
-- A Harris County man completely paralyzed for life, unable to move or
speak yet conscious of his surroundings and physical condition as a
result of a botched steroid injection;
-- A former Harris County dentist totally paralyzed as a result of a
botched spinal imaging procedure;
-- A Cameron County girl who suffered catastrophic loss of intestinal
function at 10 months of age due to botched abdominal surgery in 2001;
-- A Harris County woman left permanently paraplegic, in constant pain,
unable to walk or sta
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