$18.2M medical malpractice verdict, largest of its kind, handed down in Wake Co.

maneuver during Lake’s birth.

“We knew it was a tough case, but one we believed in strongly,” Gerald Jowers, one of the attorneys for Lake, said.

Lake was born at WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh in 2019. During delivery, attorneys say Lake got stuck in the birth canal. That’s when attorneys say a resident doctor acted negligently.

“What followed was an attempted continue reading …