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New York’s Highest Appellate Court Refuses To Allow Recovery For Mother’s Emotional Damages For Baby Born Alive But Who Died Shortly After Birth Due To Medical Negligence During Delivery

December 4, 2025

Plaintiff Veronica SanMiguel was admitted to defendant St. Barnabas Hospital (St. Barnabas) on July 1, 2012, after she did not go into labor by her due date. She came under the care of defendant Dr. Meryl Y. Grimaldi who, along with St. Barnabas’s nursing staff, induced labor. On the morning of Ju[...]

California Medical Board Seeks Revocation Of OB’s Medical License After He Forcefully Removed 23-Year-Old’s Placenta After She Gave Birth, Causing Her Death

September 21, 2019

The Medical Board of California (“Board”) filed a formal “Accusation” on August 14, 2019 against a California obstetrician, alleging that he was the on-call OB/GYN at a hospital on September 6, 2016 when a 23-year-old patient gave birth to a healthy girl by normal spontaneous[...]

USA TODAY Analysis Finds High Childbirth Complication Rates In Some U.S. Hospitals

March 20, 2019

A USA TODAY article entitled “Hospitals blame moms when childbirth goes wrong. Secret data suggest it’s not that simple” stated that “[a] USA TODAY analysis of billing data from 7 million births found about one in eight hospitals have complication rates of at least double the nor[...]

Texas Appellate Court Decides Plaintiffs’ Expert Qualified To Give Opinions In Birth Injury Wrongful Death Case

March 18, 2019

The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion filed on March 7, 2019 in a Texas birth injury medical malpractice case that the plaintiffs’ expert report and accompanying resume, which listed the expert’s qualific[...]

Georgia Hospital Settles Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

March 24, 2018

On March 1, 2018, a Georgia hospital settled a birth injury medical malpractice case filed against it that alleged that two physicians that it employed failed to provide care consistent with the required standard of care, which resulted in the baby suffering a severe brain injury at her birth in 201[...]

U.S. Court Of Appeals (8th Cir.) Upholds Nebraska’s Cap On Medical Malpractice Damages

July 17, 2017

In its opinion filed on June 22, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (“U.S. Court of Appeals”) held that Nebraska’s cap on damages in medical malpractice cases did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s Seventh Amendment because the Seventh Amendment [...]

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California Medical Board Seeks Revocation Of OB’s Medical License After He Forcefully Removed 23-Year-Old’s Placenta After She Gave Birth, Causing Her Death

USA TODAY Analysis Finds High Childbirth Complication Rates In Some U.S. Hospitals

Texas Appellate Court Decides Plaintiffs’ Expert Qualified To Give Opinions In Birth Injury Wrongful Death Case

Georgia Hospital Settles Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

U.S. Court Of Appeals (8th Cir.) Upholds Nebraska’s Cap On Medical Malpractice Damages

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