Jury awards $35M in medical malpractice suit, family of Newton child only gets $1M

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A Sedgwick County jury awarded $35 million to a Newton family in a medical malpractice case, but that amount will not be paid out in full.

Six days after Parker Patton was born in 2021, he developed intestinal malrotation with volvulus. The condition causes the intestines to twist, cutting off the blood supply.

“He started throwing up yellow vomit. He started to get very irritable and fussy,” James Patton, Parker’s father, said…

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