Category Archives: Birth Trauma
Your Doctors Must Address Potential Delivery Complications
The loss of a child during birth is not something money alone can help a family recover from. Keep this in mind when you see substantial lawsuit awards written about in the news involving birth trauma cases. This is why healthcare providers have a duty to make sure all safety measures are taken during the delivery of a child. The failure of a doctor to properly diagnose complications that could come up during a delivery could lead to costly delays, leading to the death or injury of a newborn. Such is the case when a doctor fails to monitor complications such as gestational diabetes and high blood pressure throughout a pregnancy. The failure of a healthcare provider to not properly react during a pregnancy can lead to botched caesarean sections and improperly performed vaginal deliveries, with the forceful use of forceps or vacuums. Failures by healthcare providers can cause your…
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Birth Trauma
Between five and ten of every 1,000 births in the United States will result in a birth injury. Sometimes these injuries occur naturally because of some difficulty in the birthing process. Other times, however, birth trauma can be the result of medical negligence. Some of the more common types of birth injury are: oxygen deprivation causing cerebral palsy, intracranial hemorrhage, spinal cord injuries and Erbs palsy. Sometimes these injuries occur because labor is allowed to continue beyond a medically reasonable period of time. Other times injuries may occur because of negligent oversight of hospital staff. Other injuries occur because hospital staff are reluctant to call medical doctors particularly at night when the doctor is at home and on call. Over the years, our firm has helped many families who have been the victims of this type of medical negligence. Many times these cases are proven using a combination of fetal…
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Maryland Assembly Recommends Birth Injury Fund
According to the Baltimore Sun, a Maryland task force, for the second time in two years, has recommended that the state create a birth injury fund for babies born with neurological complications. The fund would be modeled after state funds like those in Virginia and Florida—most patient advocates and injury attorneys oppose these measures. Opponents, including the Maryland Association for Justice, say the fund would be “unfair to victims who should be able to seek accountability in a public forum that holds providers responsible for care provided.” The fund would need Legislative approval during the 2016 year in order to operate. Follow our blog and we will update you if more news about the legislative push comes out. Do I Need a Birth Injury Attorney? We strongly oppose sate efforts to create birth injury funds, because care for children who have experienced complications is often costly. A state fund may…
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