On September 10, 1993, a mother brought her 56 day old baby girl to the emergency room at Saint Luke’s Hospital in New York for treatment. The hospital staff were horrified at what they discovered. The small baby had several broken bones. She had a spinal fracture of her of…
A legal action was filed by a mother and his son who wants to recover damages for medical malpractice. The complainant’s demands an appeal from the order of the Supreme Court granting his opponent’s request of dismissing their complaint. The incident started when the mother began receiving a prenatal care…
A mother and her baby have pleaded a separate cause of action. The accused hospital moves to dismiss the infant’s cause of action, brought by her maternal grandfather as Guardian appointed by an order of the Court. It is claimed that the hospital’s negligence, failure to provide adequate care and…
A medical malpractice action has been filed by the plaintiffs, individually as parents and natural guardians of an infant, where they seek to recover, inter alia, damages that the infant plaintiff suffered at birth (birth injury or birth injury accident) as a result of the defendants’ alleged negligence. On 28…
After mistakes made by the medical professionals attending his birth, a child left seriously injured has been awarded £4.6 million in compensation, a hospital reports. Born at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn in June of 2004, the boy suffered severe injuries at the hands of his mother’s birthing medical…
An eight-year-old girl who suffers from quadriplegic cerebral palsy was born at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Her cerebral palsy was found to be caused by injuries she sustained at birth. In fact, London’s High Court found that her injury arose out of “clinical negligence” by Leeds…
An $18.2 million settlement was awarded to a Wisconsin woman by the Federal government who funded the former Sinai-Samaritan Hospital in Milwaukee. The hospital was found negligent in the birth injury case. The plaintiff alleged that the child’s birth injury was due to the “horrific care” that she received from…
An 8-month-old Iraqi infant, who had suffered nerve damage during birth, is expected to recover some kind of movement in his right hand after a successful surgery in Houston last week. The surgery lasted two hours and according to the doctor, “It went really well.” The operating surgeon specializes in…
A New Jersey jury found a doctor was negligent in the case of a birth injury resulting in the infant’s development of cerebral palsy. The family of the plaintiff alleged that if the emergency room doctor had not waited as long as he did to perform an emergency Cesarean section,…
Following a four-year legal battle, the largest sum paid out for a birth injury case in Queensland will be awarded to a six-year-old boy. The settlement surpasses other recent large settlements, pleasing the family. The parents of the six-year-old lodged the claim in Brisbane’s Supreme Court in 2007 for personal…