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$1.5M Medical Malpractice Settlement Involving Rare Pregnancy Complication Leading To Brain Damage

June 14, 2025

On January 15, 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice claim involving a 21-year-old woman who was pregnant with her first baby in 2021 and who suffered brain damage as a result of a rare complication of pregnancy, was settled for $1.5 million. The Virginia medical malpractice claim was against her OBG[...]

Washington Appellate Court Affirms Defense Summary Judgment In Premature Birth Claim

January 30, 2024

On August 27, 2015, Cheri Tiller was 26 weeks pregnant when she noticed some bleeding and abdominal pain after intercourse. She called SSWC to leave a message about her symptoms. She received a call back from a SSWC nurse, who advised her that the symptoms were not abnormal after intercourse and tha[...]

CDC: One In 5 Women Reported Mistreatment While Receiving Maternity Care

November 6, 2023

The CDC held a press briefing on August 22, 2023 during which the participants discussed the weekly Vital Signs report for August 22, 2023, and stated, in part: CDC analyzed data from the Porter Novelli View Moms Survey administered from April 24-30, 2023, to examine the following components of disr[...]

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[...]

Was Your Baby’s Stillbirth Caused By Medical Negligence?

January 30, 2021

A stillbirth is the death or loss of a baby before or during delivery. Both miscarriage and stillbirth describe pregnancy loss, but they differ according to when the loss occurs. In the United States, a miscarriage is usually defined as loss of a baby before the 20th week of pregnancy, and a stillbi[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Primary Care Physician Not Liable For Patient’s Pregnancy Loss

September 20, 2020

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”), in its unpublished opinion dated August 13, 2020, affirmed that the plaintiff failed to establish in her Michigan medical malpractice case that her primary care physician’s failure to contact an OB/GYN that the pl[...]

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