South Florida attorneys won a $46.5 million medical malpractice verdict for an Arkansas toddler with profound brain damage.

Two-year-old Kara Smalls will need 24-hour care the rest of her life because her family doctor failed to treat her jaundice at birth, plaintiffs attorneys argued. Jaundice can indicate high levels of a substance called bilirubin in the blood, and because it was ignored, bilirubin penetrated the newborn’s brain and permanently damaged it.