$9 Million Settlement for a Child With HIE & Cerebral Palsy

Aug 28, 2017

OUTCOME: $9 Million Settlement

$9 million settlement for a child with cerebral palsy, HIE, brain damage, developmental delays, and cognitive and physical disabilities.

$5 million for baby brain injured by negligent neonatal care

Jan 07, 2015

OUTCOME: $5 million settlement

Baby left unmonitored crashed in NICU when providers failed to intubate. Infant suffered hypoxic brain injury.

$3.85 million for child with cerebral palsy and profound developmental delays

Jan 03, 2014

OUTCOME: $3.85 million settlement

This case involved a series of mistakes made by physicians and hospital staff which resulted in a baby being born with brain damage. The child has been diagnosed with spastic quadriplegic cerebral pals ... y and profound developmental delays. He cannot walk or talk and requires feeding by tube. Reiter & Walsh asserted in this very difficult case that the mother’s sickle cell disease, brain abscess requiring cranial surgery during pregnancy, seizures, and multiple hospitalizations during pregnancy placed her in a high-risk category. Despite being high-risk, staff and doctors managing her care did not communicate or follow-up on abnormal test results. One such result revealed that the baby was not growing proportionally to gestational age. This finding required early delivery of the baby, between 34 and 37 weeks gestation. Instead, the pregnancy was allowed to continue and the mother experienced a sickle cell crisis at 37 weeks. During this time the baby’s fetal heart tracings were non-reassuring and an emergency C-section was ordered but delayed. This deprived the baby of oxygen resulting in brain damage.

$4.5 million awarded to child alleged to have been injured during birth

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OUTCOME: $4.5 million settlement, 2014

$4.5 million awarded to child alleged to have been injured during labor and delivery.

$7.5 Million Settlement for Failure to Transfuse Newborn Baby

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OUTCOME: $7.5 Million