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Show Jury awards couple $2.7 million in suit An Orem family whose three-year-old son was born with brain damage at Utah Valley Hospital was awarded award-ed $2.7 million by a 4th District Court jury in Provo, ending en-ding a malpractice trial involving the hospital. The suit, named Dr. Roger B. Lewis and Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Health Care, Inc., as defendants, alleged that the I doctor gave Sheila Hunter a labor-inducing drug nine I and a half hours before the birth, which caused her uterus, to rupture and the baby to be born deformed. 1 The Hunter's son is a spastic paraplegic. A $750,000 out-' out-' of -court settlement was reached with the doctor, i |