The woman claims her doctor acted negligently when she decided to deliver the child vaginally instead of via Caesarean section. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff argues that her doctor should have known the baby was at high risk for experiencing shoulder dystocia because of her obesity and diabetes.

Shoulder dystocia is when a baby’s shoulders become stuck between the mother’s pelvic bone when being delivered vaginally. It can cause nerve damage in the shoulders, arms, and hands which could eventually cause paralysis. More serious effects could lead to lack of oxygen and death.

If your child has been injured during delivery due to the negligence of the hospital staff, contact the Philadelphia birth injury lawyers of the offices of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C., at 215-238-1130.

The mother filed the birth injury lawsuit after nurses at the hospital were unprepared to prevent her son from suffering from oxygen deprivation that caused him to develop cerebral palsy.  The jury ruled that the nursing staff was 100 percent responsible for the now 4-year old boy’s injuries because they did not properly monitor his fetal heart rate.

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According to court documents, the midwife was negligent in her delivery of a baby boy in 2006.  The midwife pulled on the infant’s head and arms to help remove him from the birth canal.  The boy suffered from shoulder dystocia during the delivery because of the midwife’s negligent practices.  Shoulder dystocia occurs when an infant’s shoulder becomes caught on their mother’s pubic bone, making delivery more difficult than normal and often causing serious nerve damage.

The boy has permanent nerve damage and a permanently disabled right arm as a result of the negligent delivery.

Bernice Allen claims she told the hospital staff not to let William leave until she came to pick him up from the facility, because he was “disabled, had a history of seizures, and could not come home on his own.” William had receive treatment for epilepsy at Granville Medical Center. When Allen arrived to retrieve her son, she was informed that he had been released. Seven months later William’s remains were discovered in a ravine.

The trial court dismissed Allen’s lawsuit because it failed to assert that the alleged negligent medical care had been reviewed by an expert. Upon appeal, Allen argued that her lawsuit was not for medical malpractice but for negligence. Presiding judge John Martin, agreed and reversed the lower court’s decision.

In his decision, Martin wrote that Bernice Allen did “not appear to challenge the Medical Center’s professional judgement in the discharging the decedent, rather, plaintiff alleges that the Medical Center failed to supervise a person in its care, despite being on notice that he could not care for himself, and permitted him to leave the premises without being accompanied by a responsible adult.”

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The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Christian Arroyo, of Gurnee, a six year-old boy who suffered brain damage at birth and now is a quadriplegic with severe cerebral palsy. Arroyo was delivered in May 2003 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. David Pritchard, attorney for the Arroyo family, explained that the lawsuit was brought in federal court against the United States government because the doctors involved in the boys delivery work for a federally funded clinic.

The case was filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which allows lawsuits against the federal government, but requires a bench trial without a jury.

United States District Judge Amy St. Eve announced her decision on April 2.

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Proffessor Tom O'Dowd, GP of Tallaght Hospital and Trinity College Dublin public health specialist, claims thousand of referral letters were left, unopened, around the hospital in 2009. O'Dowd estimates the number of unopened letters could be as high as 30,000. O'Dowd says in April 2009 a manager at the hospital told him that "two years of GP referral letters" had not been opened or reached the consultant for whom they were addressed. 

Tallaght Hospital released a statement disputing O'Dowd's claims. The hospital said in there statement that there "was never anything like 30,000 unprocessed letters… All GP referral letters are opened on receipt and processed according to speciality… In October 2009, action was taken to clear a backlog of 3,498 letters which had not been reviewed by a consultant. All of these are now actively being dealt with."

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If your child has suffered serious injuries during childbirth, you may be able to pursue a medical malpractice case. For assistance with your birth injury claim, contact the Philadelphia birth injury lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-329-3511 today. 

A family of a young boy who suffered serious brain damage at birth hasbeen awarded $2.3 million in a settlement with the hospital where he wasdelivered.

Eight-year-old Zakk Wilkinson suffers from a severe socialand communication disorder after he was starved of oxygen during his birth atKettering General Hospital in September 2001.

The disorder makes Zakk’s behavior irrational andunpredictable. He has needed constant care from his parents, and will continueto, for the rest of his life.

Wilkinson’s family filed a claim against Kettering GeneralHospital citing “clinical negligence” and after negotiations, have reached a$2.3 million settlement.

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A Schenectady jury has awarded a family $43 million in amedical malpractice lawsuit. The ruling Thursday found Bellevue Hospital liablefor the birth of Tiffany Busone, a 25 year-old who now suffers from cerebralpalsy due to a lack of proper resuscitation at birth.

The family settled out of court with the doctor involved inthe delivery in 1990. This case, against Bellevue, has been in and out of courtsince 1991.

The lawyer for Busone’s family, Steve Coffey, says the caseis an extremely unusual one. The length of time it took to get a verdict to theaward ruling on Thursday was quite out of the ordinary.

“I can tell you I’ve never seen a verdict of this size.” saidCoffey. “You don’t get verdicts of this size and it’s a vindication in a senseof a mother fighting for her daughter all these years.”

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