Category Archives: Birth Injury
Family Settles Birth Injury Lawsuit for Roughly $11.4 Million
Earlier this month in Ireland, a settlement was reached in the case of a 10-year-old tetraplegic girl who has been confined to a wheelchair and left seriously disabled as a result of medical mistakes that took place in the management of her birth in April 2005. According to a local news source, the medical… Read More »
New Study Shows More Women Opting for Home Births
Over 99% of all the babies born in the United States are born in hospitals under the supervision of physicians. However, according to one recent article, more women are starting to consider having a home birth or a hospital birth with the assistance of a midwife rather than a physician. Evidently, the study results… Read More »
Research Study Shows Increased Risk of Birth Injury for Gestational Diabetes Patients Treated with Glyburide Instead of Insulin
A recently released study has shown that the growing use of the drug glyburide instead of direct insulin injections to treat pregnant women with gestational diabetes has increased the risk of their babies being born with certain birth injuries. According to a news article reporting on the study, the percentage of gestational diabetes patients… Read More »
U.S. Government Pays Out $1.3 Million After Infant Dies in a Military Base Hospital
Earlier this month, the United States government agreed to pay roughly $1.3 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a family who claimed that their daughter died due to the negligence of a government hospital’s staff. According to one news source, the incident occurred about three years ago at the Tripler Army Medical Center… Read More »
Mother Sues Doctor and Hospital for Birth Injury, Accepts Settlement Offer
Earlier this month in the United Kingdom, a family accepted a settlement offer in a case that alleged professional negligence on the part of the doctor who was the consulting obstetrician during the mother’s pregnancy. According to one local news source, the family decided to accept the settlement because they wanted to avoid the… Read More »
More Studies Endorse Vaginal Births After Cesarean (VBACs)
The old wisdom was that it was dangerous for a woman who had delivered a baby through a C-section to delivery any future babies vaginally. This has led to a significant number of women opting for C-sections, not because they want the procedure or medically need it, but because they were told that it… Read More »
29-Year-Old Born with Cerebral Palsy Recovers in U.K. Birth Injury Lawsuit
Earlier this month, a 29-year-old woman born with cerebral palsy was awarded 2.1 million pounds after convincing the court that her condition was the result of substandard medical care she received at birth. According to one local news source, the lawsuit was filed 28 years after the injury was alleged to have occurred. Evidently,… Read More »
Appellate Court Dismissed Soldier’s Birth Injury Suit against the Federal Government
Earlier last month, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decided a case that may have implications for birth injury cases that involve soldiers or that arise on U.S. military bases. In the case, Ortiz v. United States, the plaintiff was the husband of an active-duty service member who became pregnant and was admitted to… Read More »
Family Awarded over $4 Million in Birth Injury Case
Earlier this month in Bibb County, Georgia, a family was awarded a $4.3 million jury verdict in a case alleging medical malpractice on the part of the woman’s pre-natal physicians. According to one local news source, the trial spanned eight days, and the verdict was handed down after 2.5 hours of deliberation. Evidently, the… Read More »
Woman Paralyzed Hours after Childbirth Recovers $35 Million Jury Verdict
Earlier this month in Massachusetts, a jury awarded a mother who suffered a stroke just hours after childbirth over $35 million in damages. According to a report by the Boston Globe, the recovery was not based on the negligence of the delivering physician, but on the negligence of a doctor whom the woman had… Read More »
