A new birth injury lawsuit alleges that medical services to active military personnel at Beaufort Memorial Hospital in South Carolina were negligent, resulting in the permanent injuries of a minor girl. The parents, residents of North Carolina, argue that malpractice occurred when doctors failed to... Read More

A birth injury malpractice lawsuit was filed in Massachusetts against physicians whose alleged negligence led to severe brain damage and other injuries for an infant, now seven years old. According to the complaint filed on March 29 (PPA Sharonda Moeng v Herlighy et al, #... Read More

On April 8, 2014, a Chicago plaintiff filed a stillbirth malpractice lawsuit against the U.S. attorney general, asking for more than $75,000 in damages in the death of her infant. The central argument is that the defendant failed to deliver the plaintiff’s baby in a... Read More

A brachial plexus paralysis lawsuit has been filed in Los Angeles on behalf of a minor defendant who will struggle with neurological damage and paralysis from a birth injury for the rest of his life.  The lawsuit filed on October 29, 2013 in the Superior... Read More

Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Southern California Kaiser Permanent and several attending healthcare providers are being sued by a California couple, who allege the defendants failed to monitor and recognize fetal distress in the mother’s unborn baby, causing the child to die. The complaint is proceeding in... Read More

An Illinois woman has filed a wrongful birth lawsuit against her doctor, charging that a bungled sterilization procedure led her to give birth to a child with sickle cell disease.  The woman and her husband are seeking compensation for the “extraordinary expenses” they expect to... Read More

A mother from Illinois has filed a birth injury lawsuit against a doctor and hospital, alleging that their negligence resulted in her child’s brachial plexus injury. The complaint was filed on February 21, 2014 in the Circuit Court for Cook County, Illinois. At the heart... Read More

A three-county area in rural Washington is the site of an unsolved birth defects cluster, with at least two dozen babies in the Yakima area born with anencephaly. Health officials are stumped, having reviewed environmental and medical factors that might link the cases. Typically fatal... Read More