A Utah judge awarded a family nearly $1 billion dollars — the largest in the state’s history — after a hospital was so negligent in handling a baby girl’s delivery that she will likely suffer a lifetime of disabilities, according to a report.

Anyssa Zancanella, Danniel McMicheal and their 5-year-old daughter Azaylee were awarded $951 million by Judge Patrick Corum earlier this month after he found Steward Health Care liable for the botched delivery of the newborn in West Valley City, Utah on Oct. 14, 2019.

The nurses assigned to Zancanella at Jordan Valley Medical Center — then owned by Steward — were so green they’d barely finished their training, and they gave the mom dangerous doses of a labor-inducing drug while the on-call doctor slept in a nearby room, the family’s lawsuit filed in

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