The Region - News from March 14, 1985

Attorneys for a 5-year-old Long Beach boy said they have reached a $10-million settlement with Torrance Memorial Hospital Medical Center and a physician over alleged negligence that resulted in brain damage and loss of part of the child’s leg. There was no comment from either the hospital or Dr. Rafael A. Solis over the complaint that Jason Baysac was not cared for by a fully qualified neonatologist, a specialist in the treatment of infants, immediately after birth. The boy was delivered by Caesarean section in January, 1980, and suffered from meconium aspiration, a lung infection that results when the baby inhales its own excrement. Part of the boy’s left leg had to be amputated after a blood clot formed around a catheter inserted to monitor the child’s condition.