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Minnesota Appellate Court Rules Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Experts Qualified To Testify In Birth Injury Case

May 27, 2026

Early one morning in November 2020, mother arrived at a hospital of Allina Health System experiencing contractions. The hospital admitted mother, and by 9:40 a.m., mother entered the second stage of labor and began pushing. Thirty minutes later, when child’s head was near crowning, obstetrician Dr[...]

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[...]

$8.3M Federal Medical Malpractice Verdict For Shoulder Dystochia/Brachial Plexus Injury During Birth

August 27, 2019

The Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, in her written Memorandum And Opinion filed on August 22, 2019 in a medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the OB/GYN who provided her with prenatal care and delivered her baby at a feder[...]

Wisconsin Supreme Court Affirms $1.75M Brachial Plexus Injury Verdict, Discusses Daubert Challenge

January 11, 2017

In its decision filed on January 6, 2017, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin (“Wisconsin Supreme Court”) affirmed a Wisconsin medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $1,750,000 in favor of a baby who suffered a permanent brachial plexus injury during his delivery that the [...]

Brachial Plexus Injury

December 8, 2015

Birth trauma may cause peripheral nerve damage in the form of a brachial plexus injury, which occurs most often in large babies due to shoulder dystocia or breech delivery. Brachial plexus injury occurs in about 0.5-2 per 1,000 live births in the United States, with Erb’s palsy being the mo[...]

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.[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Newborn’s Brachial Plexus Injury

January 18, 2015

A woman was 22 years old when she gave birth to her second child, a son, in June 2012 (her first baby was a girl, who was born healthy following a normal vaginal delivery). The woman’s second child suffered serious and permanent birth injuries as a result of alleged medical negligence dur[...]

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