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$5.6M Philadelphia Birth Injury, Invasion Of Privacy Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 28, 2025

On June 27, 2025, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5.6 million for the family of a baby who suffered a catastrophic brain injury during birth resulting in near blindness. The family claimed that the medical staff attending to the mother during labor and [...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Stillbirth

October 14, 2024

On July 24, 2024, the parents of a stillborn baby girl filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, Florida, against the OBGYNs involved with the labor, delivery, and birth. The Florida medical malpractice lawsuit reportedly alleges that the plaintif[...]

Michigan Judge Files Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Against Hospitals, OBGYNs

October 8, 2024

An Eaton County judge who was appointed in August 2024 has filed a Michigan birth injury medical malpractice lawsuit against two hospitals, multiple OBGYNs involved with her prenatal care and delivery, and a pediatrician, on behalf of her daughter who suffered catastrophic birth injuries during labo[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Failure To Ask Jury Panel The “Insurance Question”

December 7, 2018

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Division Three (“Missouri Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on November 20, 2018: “Because of the fundamental nature of the right to a fair and impartial jury, the trial court has no discretion to deny a party the right to as[...]

$5M Legal Malpractice Verdict Against Florida Medical Malpractice Law Firm For Botched Birth Injury Claim

November 9, 2018

A Florida legal malpractice jury found against a Florida plaintifs’ medical malpractice law firm on October 17, 2018, finding that the defendant medical malpractice law firm negligently failed to represent a woman for her own injuries suffered during childbirth during which the baby was severe[...]

$11.35M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury Brain Damage Claim

March 3, 2018

After a two-week trial and a day of jury deliberations, on February 15, 2018, an Ohio medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $11.35 million in favor a child who suffered brain damage due to alleged medical negligence during his delivery. The parents brought the Ohio birth inj[...]

New York Appellate Court Discusses Medical Malpractice Claims For In Utero Injuries

October 29, 2017

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) stated in its Memorandum and Decision dated October 6, 2017 that in a New York medical malpractice action brought by the mother where an infant is injured in utero as a [...]

$3M Delaware Medical Malpractice Verdict Against OB For Brachial Plexus Birth Injury

October 15, 2017

On September 27, 2017, a Delaware medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $3 million in favor of a now 9-year-old child against the obstetrician who delivered him, finding that the defendant OB was responsible for the child’s brachial plexus injury that occurred during h[...]

Virginia Appellate Court Discusses When Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act Applies

March 19, 2017

In its opinion filed on February 28, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Virginia (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the decision of the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (“Commission”) that the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Act (“Act”), [...]

Federal Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Naval Hospital Malpractice Led To Birth Injury

October 15, 2015

A federal medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in late September 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, naming the United States as the defendant pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging that the negligent medical care received by the plaintiff during her [...]

Illinois Medical Malpractice Lawyer Withdraws From Erb’s Palsy Case After He Becomes A Judge

September 20, 2015

An Illinois medical malpractice lawyer, who had previously retired from being a judge in Illinois, recently had to withdraw from an Erb’s palsy medical malpractice case that he had filed on behalf of his clients on February 20, 2015. The reason for his withdrawal? He became a judge once again.[...]

Florida Appellate Court Limits Medical Malpractice Attorneys Fee To $100,000

July 20, 2015

In its decision dated July 15, 2015, the District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fourth District (“Appellate Court”) limited to $100,000 the medical malpractice attorneys fee and costs that the plaintiffs’ Florida medical malpractice lawyers could receive for their highly [...]

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