Chantel Giacalone's family was awarded $29.5 million after a Las Vegas jury found that an ambulance service negligently treated her when she suffered a serious allergic reaction to a peanut
A model and aspiring actress who suffered severe brain damage because of a bite-size pretzel has been awarded $29.5 million by a jury, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The family of a model who was left brain-damaged after having a serious allergic reaction to a peanut butter-infused pretzel was awarded nearly $30 million by a Las Vegas jury.
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.