LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A central Kentucky family won a $7.24 million verdict after a jury concluded that a company that makes implantable hearing aids knowingly sold a defective device that shocked a 6-year-old girl.
The jury in federal court in Louisville awarded $6.25 million in punitive damages and $994,000 in compensatory damages on Wednesday to the family of Breanna Sadler of Vine Grove. Sadler’s family sued Advanced Bionics in 2011 — about three years after the girls’ cochlear implant made her ill and sent her into convulsions when moisture seeped into the device.
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