CASE RESULTS

We successfully litigated a medical malpractice case in which we sued a physician whose negligence in delivering a baby caused the baby to sustain cerebral palsy. The mother had a fundal height of 48 weeks but the doctor ignored this sign as well as other signs that the fetus was too large to be delivered vaginally. Instead, the doctor went ahead with the delivery rather that performing a c-section. The baby became lodged in the birth canal at the shoulder area and was deprived of oxygen for approximately 12 minutes resulting in a shoulder dystopia condition. The infant was rushed by air-ambulance to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The child recovered but according to our expert pediatric neurologist from St. Louis, the child sustained permanent damage to his body, mostly involving developmental problems.

The case was settled but the insurance company required that the amount of the settlement remain confidential.

An obstetrician failed to recognize that the pregnant patient was in labor. Proper treatment of the patient would have likely delayed the delivery giving the lungs an opportunity to mature. Instead, the mother delivered twins the next morning who were premature and underdeveloped.

The babies were air-lifted to a tertiary care center in Des Moines, Iowa where they were hospitalized for approximately 3 months. Fortunately, the babies eventually recovered but not without some residual complications. We retained an expert obstetrician from Colorado who found that the delivering obstetrician had failed to exercise the required standard of care.

This case was also settled and as in most medical malpractice cases, the insurance company required that the amount of settlement remain confidential.

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