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An Australian man tried to sue a hospital for more than \u00a3500 million after claiming he was forced to watch his wife’s C-section and suffered a “psychotic illness” as a result.<\/p>\n
Business Insider is reporting that the lawsuit came courtesy of Anil Koppula, whose wife gave birth at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne back in 2018.<\/p>\n
The C-section went well, and both mother and baby were fine.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Koppula claimed he was not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
According to court documents, Koppula claimed he was “encouraged” and “forced” to watch his wife give birth, which resulted in him seeing his wife’s organs and blood.<\/p>\n
Seeing this caused him to suffer what he called a “psychotic illness,” and sued the hospital for $1billion Australian, or the equivalent of $643million USD.<\/p>\n
And this psychotic illness caused “the breakdown of his marriage,” according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
An Australian court, however, wasn’t buying it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Koppula underwent a series of psychological evaluations, and the court determined that his alleged “psychotic illness” did not meet the threshold level to allow the court to rule in his favor.<\/p>\n
According to Australian law, damages for non-economic losses (such as those with claims of psychological damage, rather than damage to property or person) require a high threshold that demonstrates that the loss is “significant,” which this suit did not do. <\/span><\/p>\n Justice James Gorton dismissed the suit on Tuesday (September 12).<\/span><\/p>\n In his ruling, Gorton called the lawsuit an “abuse of the process.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] An Australian man tried to sue a hospital for more than \u00a3500 million after claiming he was forced to watch his wife’s C-section and suffered a “psychotic illness” as a result. Business Insider is reporting that the lawsuit came courtesy of Anil Koppula, whose wife gave birth at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}