Plaintiff had made appointments to an abortionclinic at 1995 Broadway. Upon arriving thereat, she was asked to complete some forms, pay the appropriate fees and subject to a urine and blood test. She was then directed into another room where she changed into a paper gown and was brought into…
On 23 January 1985, plaintiff was born by caesarean section at North Central Bronx Hospital, an affiliate hospital of defendant HHC. The infant plaintiff’s parents are citizens of Guyana and the mother has had intermittent residence in the Bronx. Apparently, the caesarean section was necessitated by fetal distress arising from…
A personal injury action was commenced by plaintiff-mother. It was alleged that when she was 12 days pregnant she was injured when a police vehicle backed up and hit her as she was crossing a street and that she sustained a stress fracture of her right tibia as a result…
In most hospitals, delivering babies is a standard routine. For babies born with brain injuries in the Fort Myers area, however, there was a very limited scope of professional ability available. Until now, that is. The Children’s Hospital Health Park is now hoping to grant the possibility of a normal…
The valedictorian and softball player from Keenan High School is anything but an average teen. She stands out, not for those feats, but because those feats are so astronomical given her history. Routine grounders are anything but routine for these high school senior, reports a friend who’s watched her story.…
In ninety percent of birth injuries involving the brachial plexus, the injury will heal within a few days to six months. The rest do not ever heal. A concerned mother of an injured baby reports their frustration and desperation. “We were willing to go anywhere, to do anything. But, we…
The anti-epileptic medication Topamax may be related to oral cleft birth defects. Pregnant women and their doctors now face an even more difficult choice when deciding on an epilepsy drug since the information leaked that many of these anti-epileptics have shown to have a correlation with birth injuries and severe…
The victim of birth injury that occurred at Mullingar General Hospital received an interim of €1.35 million settlement as a result of negligence and a severe breach of duty. The child’s guardians hired a lawyer. In this four-year old’s case, the Health Service Executive and obstetrician admitted liability after he…
A new comprehensive safety initiative appears to reduce the rate of adverse obstetric outcomes in large, tertiary medical centers. The program’s developers aimed at improving communication, labor and delivery negligence, revamping escalation policies, setting upgraded protocols, and standardizing interpretation of fetal heart rate tracing. Brain injury is a very common…
Birth traumas refer to injuries that happen to an infant that result from mechanical forces (ie, compression, traction) during the birth process. Significant birth injuries accounts for fewer than 2% of neonatal deaths and stillbirths in the United States. These occurrences do still happen occasionally and unavoidably, with an average…