On July 5, 2005, a child suffered a serious birth injury. The birth injury was a result of a vacuum extraction performed by the doctor. The doctor did not inform the parents of the risk of this procedure and the doctor’s negligent act has led to a jury award of $1.85 million dollars. The child did not survive the birth injury. To read more about birth injury settlements, click here.
Last Friday, a jury in a medical malpractice trial awarded $4.4 million to the parents of a child who suffered a severe brain injury at birth. Three days before her scheduled induction, the mother went to the hospital with nausea and vomiting. A fetal heart monitor showed that the baby was in dire stress and in need of an emergency c-section but a nurse misread the data. This delay lead to prolonged oxygen deprivation, causing her daughter to suffer severe brain damage and later develop cerebral palsy. She died a year ago, at the age of less than 4 and a half, of complications from the disorder.
Read more about this birth injury trial here.
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