A state appeals court on Wednesday upheld a $12.6 million jury award to the family of a girl whose gangrenous limbs were amputated after she was injected with a stale vaccine.

In 1998, the mother of Shaniah Rolle, 2, took her to the pediatric department at the University of Miami’s medical school for a shot to prevent pneumococcal disease, to which she was susceptible.

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