A severely brain damaged teenager was awarded £6.6 million for injuries he received at birth. The 19-year-old Oxford native was born at the city’s John Radcliffe Hospital in November 1991 and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and mental impairment. He has a near normal life expectancy and full awareness of…
A small boy who was brain damaged at birth will receive injury compensation from a Welsh hospital in the amount of £2.275 million. The eight-year-old will receive the payout through Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust. The boy’s brain damage was caused because his birth was delayed at Nevill Hall Hospital in…
As the lawsuit continues in the Washington County, West Virginia, Common Pleas Court, attorneys for the parents of a 9-year old girl who lost the use of her right arm allegedly by the doctors who delivered her, are questioning the expert witnesses, a NY Birth Injury Attorney is covering. One…
According to a New York Birth Injury Lawyeryou can take steps against Vertebral Subluxation Complex by checking your child for signs and symptoms at home. To do so all you will need is a mirror – preferable a full-length mirror – and your child. First, have your child stand with…
Birth trauma can happen to anyone, and can be the result of either natural or unnatural causes, reports a NY Birth Injury Attorney. Since the delicate and still-developing spinal cord and nervous system of an infant are so fragile, it does not take much in the way of trauma or…
Medical malpractice is an area of the law that covers just about everything from misdiagnosis to birth injuries. Birth injuries may also include the improper use of forceps to assist in the birthing process. While they are supposed to help ease the child into the world and help in preventing…
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that about one-third of U.S. women giving birth in 2008 delivered via a cesarean section. That number crossed all races and ages. Cesareans are becoming more popular as mothers today are less likely to have a negative preconception about surgical delivery.…
A birth injury claim recently filed by a mother in Illinois concluded in a $9,500,000 personal injury settlement. She was represented by a local firm. In November of 2006, an Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, approved the $9.5M settlement of a medical negligence case. The…
The parents of a child born with Erb’s Palsy recently filed a medical malpractice suit claiming their doctor was negligent when delivering their baby. It is claimed that the obstetrician-gynecologist was negligent because she failed to use the proper protocol when delivering their daughter in 2004. During the child’s delivery,…
Researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School and Johns Hopkins University have successfully developed a treatment that helps animals with traumatic spinal cord injuries. The treatment actually allows new nerve fibers to grow in replacement of destroyed ones. Brachial plexus avulsion is an injury that occurs when an arm…