Maya Kowalski trial: 5 most dramatic moments inside the courtroom
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Fox News Digital takes a look back at the most dramatic moments from Maya Kowalski's trial against Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The new complaint came after a Florida jury on Nov. 9 awarded Kowalski, a 17-year-old girl, and her family more than $260 million in damages and punitive damages after they alleged in a 2018 civil suit that the actions of staff at JHAC ultimately drove Maya's mother, Beata Kowalski, to suicide in 2017. Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
The jury found that the hospital wronged Maya's family after staff accused Beata of exhibiting signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a type of medical abuse, and DCF temporarily removed Maya from her parents' custody while she was hospitalized in 2016 for a rare and poorly understood chronic neurological condition called complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). The case made national headlines after it was highlighted in a popular documentary called "Take Care of Maya."
Howard Hunter, an attorney from Hill Ward Henderson who represented JHAC in this case, said JHAC plans to appeal the jury's decision "based on clear and prejudicial errors throughout the trial and deliberate conduct by plaintiff’s counsel that misled the jury."
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