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$18.2 Million North Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Baby’s Erb’s Palsy Injury Suffered During Birth

September 23, 2026

A North Carolina medical malpractice jury determined that a third-year resident at WakeMed in Raleigh, North Carolina was negligent in her handling of the delivery of a baby boy on September 17, 2029, when the baby’s shoulder becoming stuck behind his mother’s pelvis (shoulder dystocia) [...]

Virginia Appellate Court Orders New Trial For Refusal To Instruct Medical Malpractice Jury As To Superseding Cause In Cesarean Delivery Without Anesthesia Case

November 22, 2025

Elizabeth Bandy was admitted to Reston Hospital Center on August 13, 2021, for an induced delivery of her first child. Her regular physician recommended they induce her labor because she was past her due date. On Sunday, August 15, 2021, as Ms. Bandy’s labor progressed, Dr. Mirza Baig, the only an[...]

$3.3M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brachial Plexus Injury During Childbirth

November 5, 2025

On February 26, 2025, a Virginia birth injury medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $3.3 million for a baby who experienced shoulder dystocia followed by brachial plexus injuries during his birth at 39 weeks, on April 12, 2019. During labor, the baby’s heart rate showed re[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms $10.5 Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Twins During Birth

August 16, 2025

In April 2019, Dinesha Robinson was nearly five months’ pregnant with twins. Her pregnancy was high-risk, due to a prior miscarriage and preeclampsia, and she had been treated twice in the previous three weeks for a urinary tract infection (“UTI”) by United Obstetrics and Gynecology (“UOG”[...]

$48.1M Missouri Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

May 16, 2025

On March 25, 2025, a Missouri medical malpractice birth injury jury returned its verdict in the amount of $48.1 million in favor of the parents of a baby that suffered profound injuries as a result of alleged medical negligence during his birth. The Missouri birth injury jury awarded $28.1 million i[...]

What Is Tennessee’s Largest Medical Malpractice Verdict?

August 9, 2024

The largest Tennessee medical malpractice verdict was a May 2024 Davidson County jury’s award of almost $47 million ($46,993,500) for now five-year-old Vivian Boughton, who suffered irreversible brain injuries as a result of the failure of a hospital to timely deliver her in 2018. Vivian’[...]

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[...]

Federal Appellate Court Holds Baby, Mother Entitled To Separate Noneconomic Damages Cap In California Birth Injury Case

July 27, 2023

Court Holds Baby, Mother Entitled To Separate Noneconomic Damages Cap In California Birth Injury Case: At the time a federal medical malpractice birth injury case arose, section 3333.2(a) of the California Civil Code provided that “[i]n any action for injury against a health care provider based on[...]

$11.9 Million Texas Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict (Reduced To $2.19 Million Due To Texas’ Cap On Damages)

May 4, 2022

On April 26, 2022, Maples Nix & Diesselhorst attorneys Glendell Nix, Jacob Diesselhorst, Shea Bracken, and Brenda Doroteo, along with local counsel Malachi Daws and Judson Daws, obtained a substantial plaintiff’s verdict in Jefferson County, Texas (Beaumont) after a 3-week jury trial befor[...]

Iowa $98 Million Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

March 24, 2022

On March 21, 2022, an Iowa medical malpractice jury deliberated for about 90 minutes after a 14-day trial before it returned its verdict in the amount of $97.4 million in favor of the parents of a newborn who suffered permanent brain damage during delivery in 2018 as a result of the improper use of [...]

$34.77M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Newborn’s Catastrophic Injuries

August 18, 2021

On August 16, 2021, after a two-and-a-half week trial and two days of jury deliberations, a Baltimore City medical malpractice jury found against defendant MedStar Harbor Hospital for the irreversible hypoxic brain injury suffered by a newborn just hours after his birth. The Baltimore medical malpra[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms $20M Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict Where Defense Attorney Suffered A Stroke During Trial

November 8, 2020

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated September 28, 2020, affirmed a New Jersey medical malpractice birth injury verdict in the amount of $20 million, despite the defense attorney having suffered an ischemic stroke just b[...]

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