The Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld an $8 million medical malpractice verdict against Abington Memorial Hospital (now Jefferson Abington Hospital) on Friday, December 6, The Legal Intelligencer reported.

According to the story, three judges unanimously rejected the hospital’s challenge to a married couple’s claim over complications that occurred while the wife was undergoing a caesarian section.

Rongione v. Abington Memorial Hospital was first filed in 2014 by Laura Rongione and her husband who alleged that “Abington staff failed to detect that Rongione’s uterine artery had been cut during the C-section,” the article said. “As a result of the undetected bleed, the plaintiffs claimed, Rongione went into hypovolemic shock, then went into cardiac arrest and ultimately had to undergo an emergency hysterectomy.”

The hospital asserted in an appeal that the trial court ruled incorrectly on four issues involving evidence.

The court’s ruling can be found below:

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