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Record-Setting Iowa Birth Injury Malpractice Judgment Leads To Claims Of Insurer Bad Faith, Attorney Malpractice

February 7, 2024

As we discussed in yesterday’s blog posting, an Iowa birth injury medical malpractice jury’s record-setting $97 million verdict against an Iowa medical clinic has led to the filing of two, competing lawsuits against the clinic’s medical malpractice insurer, MMIC. One of the bad faith l[...]

$2.5 Million Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Inadequate Anesthesia During C-Section

January 24, 2024

On June 21, 2023, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2.5 million in favor of a woman who alleged that she was not provided adequate anesthesia during her Cesarean section delivery. The Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that she was in the hospital a[...]

$31.5 Million Arizona Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

November 29, 2023

On November 17, 2023, an Arizona medical malpractice jury in Maricopa County returned its verdict in excess of $31.5 million in a birth injury medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged that University Medical Center, which is operated by Banner Health, repeatedly administered Pitocin to a woman in la[...]

CDC: One In 5 Women Reported Mistreatment While Receiving Maternity Care

November 6, 2023

The CDC held a press briefing on August 22, 2023 during which the participants discussed the weekly Vital Signs report for August 22, 2023, and stated, in part: CDC analyzed data from the Porter Novelli View Moms Survey administered from April 24-30, 2023, to examine the following components of disr[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Discusses State Immunity From Medical Malpractice Claims

October 25, 2023

The Alleged Facts Connecticut operates the University of Connecticut Health Center/John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington, which provides prenatal care and labor and delivery services through the UConn Health Women’s Center (UConn). BetweenSeptember 1, 2019, and March 25, 2020, UConn undertook the ca[...]

CDC Vital Signs: Maternity Care Experiences — United States, April 2023

August 31, 2023

Maternity Care Experiences, United States, April 2023: The CDC stated in its weekly Vital Signs for the week of August 22, 2023: From 2018 to 2021, the maternal death rate in the United States increased from 17.4 to 32.9 per 100,000 live births. Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, Black, and[...]

$31.6 Million Michigan Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Verdict

May 30, 2023

$31.6 Million Birth Injury Verdict: On May 25, 2023, a Michigan medical malpractice birth injury jury returned its verdict in the amount of $31.6 million after a three-week trial and nine hours of jury deliberations. The now four-year-old child suffered hypoxia during labor that caused severe perman[...]

$6.5M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stillborn Baby

April 23, 2023

$6.5M Malpractice Verdict For Stillborn Baby: In April 2023, a Connecticut medical malpractice wrongful death jury awarded a 37-year-old woman $6.5 million in damages for wrongful death and medical malpractice in her lawsuit against Yale University for the death of her baby during delivery at 37 wee[...]

$40 Million Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

March 29, 2023

$40 Million Birth Injury Verdict: On March 23, 2023, an Illinois medical malpractice birth injury jury awarded compensatory damages in the amount of $40 million to a now 19-year-old woman who suffered permanent brain damage during her delivery that the jury determined was due to the unnecessary dela[...]

Federal Court Rejects Medical Malpractice Claim Against The United States

February 6, 2023

Woman fails to establish her claims against the United States: A federal judge held, following a recent bench trial, that a San Diego woman failed to establish her claims of medical malpractice and medical battery against the United States. Instead, the court found that the evidence at trial “over[...]

Florida Appellate Court Holds Hospital’s Incident Report Regarding Birth Injury Was Privileged

January 30, 2023

Hospital’s Incident Report Regarding Birth Injury Was Privileged: Thirty-nine weeks pregnant with her unborn son, Jade Wiles noticed decreased fetal movement and went to Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare. She was monitored for several hours, after which the baby was delivered via caesarean secti[...]

South Carolina Appellate Court Applies Emergency Situation Law In Shoulder Dystocia Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

January 25, 2023

Emergency Situation Law Applied In Shoulder Dystocia Birth Injury Case: Section 15-32-230 of the South Carolina Code (Supp. 2022) requires gross negligence to impose liability in certain emergency and obstetrical care situations: Section 15-32-230 provides:(A) In an action involving a medical malpra[...]

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