Bloomfield Hills, MI
Birth injury Lawyer at Bloomfield Hills, MI
Practice Areas: Birth Injury
OUTCOME:
$1.825 Million for child who suffered from oxygen deprivation due to a combination of Pitocin overuse and traumatic injury during labor. The child was found to have intracranial hemorrhages, and had se ... izures after birth. This birth injury resulted in cognitive impairments and developmental delays.
OUTCOME:
In this case, the mother sought neonatal care due to spotting, and showed an elevated white count, which demonstrated high immune system activity. She underwent an emergency cerclage for an incompetent ... cervix and was sent home. At 24 weeks, she came back, complaining of yellow vaginal discharge. Medical staff stated they did not see any; they conducted tests and found no evidence of infection. Less than a week later, the mother comes back with prematurely ruptured membranes and clear signs of infection. Staff order a C-section. The child now has cognitive impairments and cerebral palsy due to this medical negligence.
OUTCOME:
In this case, a mother with a prior history of five successful normal-birth-weight deliveries gained 150 lbs. over the course of her pregnancy. Based on her history, medical staff determined that she w ... ould have a similarly-sized baby. After a 14-hour labor, staff ordered an emergency C-section of the baby, who was macrosomic (with a birth weight of 11lbs. 8 oz). He also developed hypoglycemia after birth. The child's IQ is 50, as stated by school records, with genetic tests showing no known genetic contributing components to his low IQ.
OUTCOME:
Here, the mother was told at 40 2/7 weeks to come back for labor induction in four days if labor did not occur naturally. Two days after scheduling, she reported to a hospital with abdominal pressure, ... and medical staff noted contractions. They subsided after several hours and the mother was told to come back for her at the originally scheduled induction time. The evening before the scheduled induction, the mother felt contractions and drove to the hospital, where she was admitted to the labor floor three hours later. The baby was in severe fetal distress. Doctors ordered a C-section, but the child had suffered hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), resulting in weakness on one side of the body, mild cognitive delays and a low normal IQ.
OUTCOME: $2.1 Million Settlement
In this case, a medical professional mistakenly administered the wrong dose of anesthesia to a mother before her vaginal delivery with twins. The anesthesia resulted in maternal numbness below the wais ... t, so the mother was forced to wait until the anesthetic subsided before delivering. During the delivery, complications occurred and the delayed emergency C-section resulted in brain damage from birth asphyxia with resultant cerebral palsy, developmental delays, and speech impairments.
OUTCOME: $4.75 Million Settlement
In this case, Reiter & Walsh, P.C. secured $4.75 million for a child born with brain damage, cerebral palsy, and developmental delays. Throughout the duration of the mother’s labor and delivery, medica ... l professionals failed to accurately monitor heart tracings from the mother and the baby. When the mother first arrived at the hospital expressing signs of labor, she was sent home. A few hours passed when the mother returned to the hospital, and physicians and residents induced labor through the use of Pitocin. The medical team continued with a vaginal delivery even though the baby’s heart rate remained non-reassuring and the umbilical cord was compressed, limiting the flow of oxygenated blood. When she was born, the baby had suffered seizures and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), and she was diagnosed with permanent brain damage, cerebral palsy, and severe developmental delays.
OUTCOME: $1.125 Million Settlement
In this case, the mother was scheduled for a labor induction at 40 weeks and three days of pregnancy. Problems, primarily with the baby’s heart rate, developed as labor progressed. In spite of abnormal ... fetal heart tracings, the doctor allowed an inexperienced, first-year resident to perform a vacuum extraction procedure on the baby. When the resident used the vacuum extractor incorrectly, the baby suffered intracranial hemorrhaging (bleeding within the brain and/or skull). This instance of medical malpractice left the child with cerebral palsy and an extreme seizure disorder.
OUTCOME: $1.55 Million Settlement
In this case, a 17-year-old mother delivered her baby nine weeks prematurely. Moments after birth, the premature child exhibited problems breathing and was placed on a poorly-controlled ventilator. Ult ... imately, the child was over-ventilated and developed hypocarbia (reduced CO2 levels in the blood), holes in his lungs, and irrevocable brain damage. As the victim aged, he experienced impaired walking and cerebral palsy.
OUTCOME: $1.95 Million Settlement
At just over 40 weeks of pregnancy, medical professionals tested the mother’s amniotic fluid levels. Results signified that her amniotic fluid levels had lessened considerably while remaining in the no ... rmal range. Since medical professionals estimated that her fluid levels were still technically in the average, healthy range, doctors sent the mother home. When her water broke the next day, her baby was delivered by way of an emergency C-section and suffered hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) during the delivery. Our expert birth injury lawyers found that, despite remaining in the normal range, the mother’s amniotic fluid levels should have been addressed and evaluated with further scrutiny. Due to the hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and oxygen deprivation inflicted around the time of delivery, the child now lives with cerebral palsy and severe developmental delays.
OUTCOME: $1.995 Million Settlement
In this case, medical professionals failed to diagnose and treat neonatal sepsis despite the presence of several risk factors and symptoms. When the baby was born, a pediatric resident ensured the fami ... ly that diagnostic tests and antibiotics would be provided to treat the sepsis. However, medical professionals never provided the tests and antibiotics and the child ultimately went into septic shock and developed meningitis. Failure to promptly treat this case of neonatal sepsis resulted in infant brain damage with resultant hemiparesis, seizures, and developmental delays.