A young boy was left severely brain-damaged at birth when midwives allegedly mistook his mother’s heartbeat for her baby’s. He was recently awarded £4.6 million in compensation. The boy’s heart had stopped beating during his mother’s labor at Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in 2004. The High Court in London…
Designated pediatric hospitals have a distinct duty of care to their patients, mother and child alike. If they don’t have a dedicated anesthesiologist on staff, that may cause serious problems when an emergency arises, as often happens during live births, explained a New York Birth Injury Lawyer. That’s just how…
The justice system is not perfect. Mistakes are common. If a lawyer is the cause of a mistake, compensation is possible through a lawsuit. What about a judge’s mistakes? An appeals court could fix judicial errors, but it won’t provide compensation. Last month a British Columbia Court of Appeals decision…
The Cerebral Palsy Society claims $5 million was placed in a fund by five former directors and thus wrested from its control. The group has taken legal action to recover the money that cannot be accessed by the new board. The chief executive of the Focus 2000 arm of Cerebral…
A 55-day case, following the longest running birth injury action in the country and described as the most complex medical negligence case ever to come before the Irish courts was finally settled. The National Maternity Hospital has to pay €4.5m to a six-year-old boy who was severely disabled because of an…