The case will probably still go to a jury trial in civil court and the woman will be awarded lots of money because the jury sees things as doctors and hospitals have lots of money and it will come out of insurance with no thought to raising the cost of hospitals, doctors, insurance etc.
I'm in a case right now where a woman's family is sueing the doctor after the woman did from an infection...it's been going on for a couple of years and will probably be another year before trial. From the charting and orders to me it doesn't look like anything was wrong at our hospital...she died 3 days after transfer to another hospital because she refused transfer to our ICU and wanted to be closer to home at the other hospital...she'd come to our hospital for surgery because of the reputation of our OR and MD instead of the close to home hospital.