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A federal jury in Kansas found obstetrician Dr. Nasreen Shah 90 percent at fault, and Central Kansas Medical Center of Larned 10 percent at fault, for the brain injury a second-born twin suffered at delivery in December 1984. The jury returned its verdict on November 15, 1990. Total damages exceeded $23 million, and judgment was entered against Dr. Shah for her share, $21,244,824.90. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the judgment in 1993.

A federal jury in Wichita awarded $15 million to a couple whose infant daughter was left with permanent brain damage after Wyeth's DPT vaccine, a 1987 verdict the Tenth Circuit later reversed and sent back for a new trial.

A Wichita jury awarded $11.5 million against International Playtex after finding its super-absorbent tampons caused the toxic shock syndrome death of a 21-year-old Kansas woman, with the full $10 million punitive award later reinstated by the Tenth Circuit.

A Kansas jury found Wesley Medical Center 100 percent at fault for a delayed diagnosis of Stage IV non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that followed missed findings on a staff physician's annual chest X-rays, and awarded him $1,245,000. The Kansas Supreme Court held the evidence supported some hospital fault but not total fault, and ordered a new trial in 1998.

A Sedgwick County jury found a Wichita family physician liable for diagnosing pneumonia in a man who died the next day of a large pulmonary embolism, awarding $982,143 in economic damages and nothing for noneconomic loss. The Kansas Court of Appeals reversed in 2010 after a juror said the verdict was a compromise reached to break a liability deadlock, and remanded for a new trial.

A 150-pound roll of vinyl flooring fell on a six-year-old girl at a Wichita lumber store in November 1987, fracturing her skull in three places and damaging her pituitary gland, which left her with permanent diabetes insipidus. A Sedgwick County jury found Star Lumber & Supply 95 percent at fault and her parents 5 percent at fault, with total damages of $761,211.38. Judgment was entered for $723,150.81, and the Kansas Court of Appeals and Kansas Supreme Court both affirmed.