A FAMILY has been awarded nearly $1BILLION after a botched hospital birth left their baby girl permanently disabled.

A Utah judge handed down the whopping $951million verdict after finding catastrophic failures at Jordan Valley Medical Center West Valley Campus.

What should have been a safe delivery ended in disaster, with the judge saying the mum would have been better off "delivering her baby at the bathroom of a gas station".

Anyssa Zancanella, of Wyoming , sued the hospital after her first pregnancy - described as uneventful and healthy until labor - ended in devastation in October 2019.

Zancanella's water broke while she was visiting the Salt Lake City area.

Hours away from her own doctor, she and her partner, Daniel McMichael, rushed to West Valley Hospital, which was then

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