An Erb’s Palsy lawsuit filed by parents of a baby born in 2013 contends that the minor plaintiff will suffer lifelong neurological damage and disability due to the negligence of doctors and a midwife attending his birth in a Florida health facility. In the complaint,... Read More

A recently published study has found a correlation between the number of maternal complications experienced by women who have previously had Cesarean sections and who required subsequent surgeries for delivery, and the speed with which the C-sections were carried out. The study looked at women who... Read More

An appeals court in Florida upheld the constitutionality of a 2012 ruling which limited the amount of legal fees that could be collected as part of a birth injury lawsuit award.   The 2-1 ruling, delivered on July 15, expressed “sympathy” for the claim of the... Read More

A childbirth malpractice lawsuit was filed on June 11 against an Alabama obstetrician-gynecologist who is currently serving as state senator. The lawsuit alleges that Dr. Larry Stutts was negligent in his treatment of a patient whose child he delivered in July of 2013 at Helen... Read More

Seven years after a woman suffered a paralyzing stroke in the immediate aftermath of labor and delivery, she has been awarded $35.4 million in a childbirth stroke lawsuit. The Dedham, MA jury found for Andrea Larkin, 35, in a verdict was handed down on May... Read More

The owner of an imaging firm in Owings Mills, MD who has already been indicted for $7.5 million in health care fraud, has now been charged in the deaths of four patients who allegedly died because he employed workers not qualified to read medical imaging.... Read More

A mother of a five-year-old boy with a rare condition known as kernicterus says that her son’s disability could have been prevented with a simple infant jaundice screening shortly after birth. The child spent the month of January hospitalized with painful muscle spasms, like “having... Read More

Although only a small number of mothers choose to give birth at home in the U.S. (about 1 %, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), but in the past fifteen years, that number has been slowly rising. As more women opt for... Read More