Adoption Agency Liable for Negligently Failing to Disclose Medical Information in Florida Adoption
A Boston couple has won a $400,000 judgment because adoption agencies failed to disclose medical information about the health and delivery of their adopted twin sons’ birth mother. The boys were born here in West Palm Beach fourteen years ago.
The concealed medical information placed the children at risk of various disabilities, and the boys do in fact suffer from a number of disabilities, including cerebral palsy and Tourette’s Syndrome.
The judge barred the jury from awarding emotional damages, constraining the judgment. The boys’ adoptive father doubts the boys will ever become self-supporting, and may appeal that ruling.
The jury also found the adoptive parents partially negligent.
Read more in this Sun Sentinel article and in this Bradenton Herald article.
