Over the past few years, many women in Pennsylvania and across the country have turned to midwives for prenatal care instead of obstetricians. Pregnant women who seek care from midwives often report that they receive the personal experience they are looking for from their pregnancy and birth. However, they expect their midwives to tell them […]
Each year, thousands of children in Pennsylvania and across the United States are afflicted with cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a devastating birth injury that is brought about by brain damage, which in turn harms a child’s ability to control his or her muscles. Cerebral palsy is caused by a variety of medical complications that […]
The family of a baby born with cerebral palsy recently won a medical malpractice claim against the doctor that delivered the baby, and the doctor’s medical practice. The family sued for damages in order to pay for their son’s lifelong medical care. The claim in their medical malpractice suit was that the doctor delayed performing […]
Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by damage to the motor control centers of the developing brain of a child. It can occur during pregnancy or possibly up to the first three years of life. People who suffer from this condition often have limits in movement and posture that curtail their normal activities. Other effects include limits in […]
In the past couple days in Erie County, juries for two separate medical negligence cases returned substantial verdicts. The first verdict on Wednesday awarded $21.6 million dollars to the mother of a 4 ½ year boy with cerebral palsy. This was the largest verdict in Erie County’s history, almost 5 times as high as the […]
A Virginia family has reached a settlement with the U.S. government in a medical malpractice case that involved birth injuries sustained at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center. The federal government will pay $2.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that inadequate care caused a child to be born with neurological injuries, including cerebral palsy. According to the court filings, the […]
A jury awarded a substantial verdict to the family of a 10-year-old girl who has cerebral palsy due to obstetric negligence. The $13.9 million judgment in the medical malpractice case was so high that the defendants asked for a retrial, arguing that the jury must have been unfairly swayed by their sympathy for the disabled […]
Mason W. was born on February 26, 2005, at Hess Memorial Hospital in Mauston, Alaska. His mother had a normal pregnancy, and everything was expected to go well. It did not. Mason was injured at birth due to the negligence of his delivery team. He now has severe quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which means he has […]
The parents of a 10-year-old girl who developed cerebral palsy as a result of oxygen deprivation prior to birth are suing the Pennsylvania doctor who delivered her. The parents, backed by the opinion of another doctor who has worked with the girl for several years, claim that the failure to perform a caesarian section led […]
When most consider the dangers of suffering a stroke, they more like than not to be thinking about an elderly relative, maybe even themselves. Most are definitely not considering a newborn child and even less so one that has not yet been born. Still, according to a recent interview published in the Seattle Times, the risk of a […]
