The nearly 60 million kroner must be paid in full within two weeks, and the compensation must be given in US dollars, writes Bergens Tidende, which mentioned the judgment from the Gulating Court of Appeal first. – The sentence gives Nora the financial opportunity to live as fully as possible a life together with her family. Nora and her parents are well satisfied with the verdict, and that they have also been awarded full legal costs for all court authorities, says lawyer Carl Aarsland Jerstad to news. Over ten years ago, Nora Davis suffered a serious brain injury during childbirth at the Women’s Clinic at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen. A late caesarean section led to a lack of oxygen. The brain damage means that Nora has developed a serious type of cerebral palsy. She can’t walk or talk, needs help with everything and will need care for the rest of her life. – Nora can face the future financially and be able to live a rich life even with her extensive functional impairments, Jerstad asserted about the verdict. SATISFACTION: Siri Davis with her daughter Nora. The picture was taken today. Photo: Private – Historic judgment The Nora case has been through several rounds of the legal system in Norway and is referred to as special. – The judgment from the Gulating Court of Appeal is historic and creates new law. It is boundary-breaking when it comes to the level of compensation itself and assumes that the injured party is entitled to full compensation based on the actual conditions that apply in the country in which she lives, says lawyer Jerstad. UiB professor Magne Strandberg has told BT that it will provide the courts in Norway with many difficult compensation cases in the future. Davis and his family live in Houston in the USA. The ten-year-old has a Norwegian mother and an American father. In the first decision in the Nora case, the parents were awarded compensation of just over ten million kroner, according to BA. The family has demanded that she must receive compensation from the state that is large enough to cover the costs of lifelong care in the United States. The couple has previously lost in both the district court and the court of appeal. Gulating Court of Appeal in Bergen. Photo: SIMON S. BRANDSETH / news Lump sum payment The family finally won in the Supreme Court last summer and the new court round in the Court of Appeal in December was about the size of the compensation. The court case therefore revolved around questions about how long Nora Davis will live, how long she will live at home, what type of institution she will gradually have to be moved to and what kind of accommodation she will get and what such a stay will cost. The family asked for a lump sum payment and have been granted this. In addition, the state must pay NOK 3.8 million in legal costs through the Patient Injury Board, according to the judgment from the Court of Appeal. The state has the opportunity to appeal the verdict to a new round in the Supreme Court. – The family hopes the case has now come to an end. It is difficult to see any basis in the judgment for the state to try to appeal it to the Supreme Court, says Jerstad. The national appeals body for the health service, which has represented the state in the court case, tells BA that they will not comment on the verdict yet. – We have just received it and will use the appeal deadline to go through it thoroughly.
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Family of girl who suffered brain damage receives NOK 60 million in compensation – news Vestland
