$5.85 Million Settlement for a Child with Brain Damage
Aug 15, 2017OUTCOME: $5.85 Million Settlement
Settlement for a child with brain damage due to untimely treatment of jaundice leading to kernicterus
Jennifer Lynne Secorski's Legal Cases (2)
Bloomfield Hills, MI
Birth injury Lawyer at Bloomfield Hills, MI
Practice Areas: Birth Injury, Personal Injury, Car Accidents
$2.75 Million Settlement for a Child with Brain Damage and Permanent Disabilities from Delayed Delivery
N/AOUTCOME: $2.75 Million Settlement
In this case, Reiter & Walsh, P.C. secured $2.75 million for a baby born with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), white matter brain damage and intracranial hemorrhages (brain bleeds) with resultant ... developmental delays, cognitive impairments, learning disabilities and seizures. Reiter & Walsh, P.C. attorneys Jesse Reiter, Rebecca Walsh and Jennifer Secorski secured $2.75 million in compensatory damages from doctors and nurses at the defendant hospital and prenatal care clinic. They contended the following: -Medical personnel from the high-risk clinic should have created a plan to monitor the mother for fetal growth restriction based on her health history -Medical personnel should have warned the mother about the dangers intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) -Medical personnel should have performed ultrasounds and fundal height measurements to detect and address intrauterine growth restriction and oligohydramnios -Medical personnel should have performed a non-stress test at the 33-week prenatal care visit
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