The family of model and aspiring actress Chantel Giacalone received $29.5 million after a three-week civil trial against MedicWest ended on Friday in Las Vegas. The lawsuit came about after Giacolone had a severe allergic reaction to a pretzel in 2013.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that a MedicWest Ambulance, which was running a medic station on the day in question, failed to properly treat Giacalone after she ate a peanut butter-filled pretzel while in Las Vegas, at the Mandalay Bay South Convention Center.
Giacalone is allergic to peanuts and didn’t realize that the pretzel had peanut butter until she took a bite into it. She subsequently went into anaphylactic shock. She lost oxygen to her brain for several minutes while being treated by the MedicWest Ambulance.
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Glam model left brain damaged by allergic reaction to pretzel wins £22m payout
Chantel Giacalone won a payout of £22m after a jury found MedicWest Ambulance negligent in the treatment they gave her when she went into anaphylactic shock at a convention in Las Vegas
Chantel Giacalone had a heightened sensitivity to peanuts, making the outcome inevitable (Image: Beck Starr/FilmMagic)
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Chantel Giacalone and her family are finally getting justice.
The model and actress went into anaphylactic shock after eating a pretzel with peanut butter on it, resulting in brain damage.
Now, the Las Vegas jury ruled that Giacalone and her family will be awarded $29.5 million.
After the verdict was announced, her dad Jack Giacalone said, At least my daughter will be taken care of. I m happy about that. All the anguish that we ve been through for the last eight years, I m not happy about.
He also claimed to have told his daughter before attending the trial that the truth will be coming out, which made her cry.
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