Austrian Court Orders Hospital To Pay $100,000 To Woman Switched At Brith
(World News Austria)

An Austrian health authority has been ordered to pay 90,000 euros ($100,830) in damages over the mix-up of two babies almost 30 years ago, The Guardian reports. Doris Gruenwald, born in 1990, only found out after a routine blood test when she was 22 that she was not biologically related to the couple she thought were her parents.`My whole body started shaking... It was like the ground under my feet disappeared.` - Doris Gruenwald The clinic, University Hospital Graz, however cast doubt on whether the mix-up happened there, suggesting it may have taken place later and somewhere else. But the court rejected this, ruling that the mix-up happened in the 20 hours between the birth and the mother,...