In Heirs v. Medical Facility (Contractual Arbitration), the Walkup team obtained the MICRA maximum settlement for parents of an infant who died after providers failed to recognize and treat sepsis. The infant, born prematurely and discharged after a NICU stay, returned with E. coli. Despite criteria for a urinary tract infection, no antibiotics were administered. Shortly after, the infant developed symptoms of neonatal sepsis. The health care provider vigorously contested causation, arguing the infection was not urinary in origin, conflicting urine cultures undermined the diagnosis, and death was inevitable regardless of antibiotics.
