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$10M Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Use Of Pitocin During Labor

April 12, 2025

A Wisconsin medical malpractice jury determined in mid-February 2025 that a hospital negligently used Pitocin during labor and delivery that led to the newborn baby suffering permanent brain damage. The now six-year-old child was diagnosed with cerebral palsy shortly before her second birthday and i[...]

Washington Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Where Palestinian Plaintiff Alleged Bias

March 19, 2025

Joumana Al Hayek and Nicholas Phillips filed an action against Dr. Kathryn Miles and Northwest OB-GYN, PS, for medical malpractice relating to the delivery of their second child. Although the child was born healthy, Al Hayek’s uterus ruptured during the long painful labor, and she no longer can ha[...]

Former CFO Pleads Guilty To Stealing Over $4.8M From Virginia Birth Injury Fund

February 9, 2025

A Providence Forge, Virginia man pled guilty on October 8, 2024 to embezzling funds from his former employer, the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program (Birth-Injury Program). According to court documents, John Hunter Raines, 38, was the Chief Financial Officer and Deputy D[...]

$11.9M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Settlement For Mother’s Catastrophic Injury During Delivery

December 25, 2024

Estefania Mesa was 28-years-old when she went to Hoboken University Medical Center on July 20, 2020 to deliver her first child at nearly 40 weeks of pregnancy. A C-section delivery was performed after the baby was determined to be in fetal distress. The family claimed in their New Jersey medical mal[...]

Infant Mortality Increased In The United States In 2022

September 27, 2024

A National Vital Statistics Report entitled “Infant Mortality in the United States, 2022: Data From the Period Linked Birth/Infant Death File” dated July 25, 2024 stated: A total of 20,577 infant deaths were reported in the United States in 2022, up 3% from 2021. The U.S. infant mortalit[...]

$23M Illinois Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 11, 2024

On May 1, 2024, an Illinois birth injury medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $23,070,000 in favor of now seven-year-old Na’ Jai Johnson, who sustained brain damage and cerebral palsy as a result of the claimed medical negligence of two obstetricians and a nurse at Chicag[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Missouri Appellate Court Holds Biomechanical Engineer’s Opinion As To Specific Causation In Shoulder Dystocia Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case Was Inadmissable

July 25, 2023

Shoulder Dystocia Birth Injury Malpractice Case: In a Missouri birth injury medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that her baby suffered a permanent brachial plexus injury during delivery after the baby experienced shoulder dystocia during delivery and the delivering OB used excess[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Holds Future Wages Claim For Infant Who Died From Malpractice Too Speculative

May 21, 2023

Future Wages Claim For Infant Who Died Too Speculative: The decedent child was born at the defendant hospital on June 12, 2014. He allegedly had visible vesicles (fluid-filled sacs or blisters) on his skin. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants should have recognized that the vesicles were signs[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Revives Birth Injury Malpractice Case, Finding Two-Dismissal Rule Misapplied

September 11, 2022

After their newborn son died in a Savannah hospital, the parents (“Joyners”) filed a Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death action in the State Court of Fulton County, naming Leaphart, several nurses, and several corporate entities as defendants. Upon determining that Chatham County [...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

New York Appellate Court Keeps Maternal Fetal Medicine Physician As Defendant In Birth Injury Lawsuit

June 19, 2022

In February 2012, the plaintiff in a New York birth injury medical malpractice case went into preterm labor at 32 weeks gestation and gave birth to an infant who suffered a brain bleed and developed cerebral palsy. During the course of the pregnancy, the plaintiff received prenatal care from defenda[...]

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