ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida appeals court has reversed a $213 million verdict against Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in the case that sparked from the Netflix documentary, "Take Care of Maya."

Maya Kowalski and her family filed a lawsuit against the hospital in St. Petersburg following the release of the documentary in 2023. In the suit, the family argued the hospital wrongly denied Maya Kowalski's mother, Beata, from seeing her over child abuse claims that turned out to be false. The family said her daughter's confinement eventually led Beata Kowalski to commit suicide.

The Florida Second District Court of Appeal struck down the trial court's verdict Wednesday, finding that the hospital had reasonable cause to suspect child abuse, and was acting in good faith in its p

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