A recent medical malpractice lawsuit filed in Illinois District Court alleges the wrongful death of the plaintiffs’ infant son was caused by negligence on the part of the attending doctor and midwife. The claim, filed individually by the parents and as special administer of the... Read More

An angry UK mother is calling the remarks of the gynecologist involved in her deceased child’s botched forceps delivery “atrocious.” The doctor reportedly told the mother, just minutes after the delivery, that she should have smoked 50 cigarettes a day so that the 9lb. 14... Read More

A mother plaintiff has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico, alleging a series of errors in the delivery room led to her child’s brain damage at birth. Today, the plaintiff claims the child is still severely disabled and unable to care... Read More

An embittered Indiana mother claims she was left in the dark for years about the injuries her daughter suffered during childbirth. Medical records documenting the delivery mysteriously vanished for nearly a decade. The child, now ten years-old, faces an uphill struggle with short-term memory loss, limited arm... Read More

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

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld a $32.8 million jury verdict against Phoenixville Hospital. The cerebral palsy lawsuit had claimed that attending healthcare providers were negligent in failing to respond appropriately to signs of fetal distress, which resulted in the infant’s brain damage at birth... Read More

A recent birth injury lawsuit argues that attending nursing and health care staff that were in charge of the plaintiff’s delivery deviated from accepted standards of medical care, causing her son to suffer injury in utero, leaving him in a permanent vegetative state. The medical... 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