A wrongful death claim is any claim in which a person has died at the result of the wrongful acts of another. Those acts can be in the form of negligence which is the unreasonable conduct of another under certain circumstances. It can be the result of an intentional action, or it can be a result of...

Erb’s Palsy or shoulder dystocia cases can result from the or arise out of the prenatal care. There are times where there are certain risk factors that the mother has that should lead the obstetrician to at least suspect the possibility of a shoulder dystocia, and if those risk factors are present, then the obstetrician has...

Erb’s Palsy or brachial plexus injuries, there are different degrees of this type of injury. Some will resolve on their own or with minimal therapy, and hopefully that’s what would happen to the child over a course of years. However, a lot of these injuries are permanent in nature, and there are different levels of brachial...

Because of the nature of the injury and the circumstances under which these injuries usually occur, if a child has some form of brachial plexus injury from birth, that probably should be investigated, and that investigation would include obtaining the medical records, the child’s birth records or delivery records, and the mother’s records, and evaluating...

Erb’s Palsy refers to an injury to an arm where there is some type of nerve injury. A brachial plexus nerve that runs down the neck into the shoulder becomes injured as a result of a traumatic birth. The obstetrical complication is known as shoulder dystocia, which is when one of the shoulders becomes impacted in...

Part of the investigation process for a case involving an injury, Cerebral Palsy or birth injury or a brain injury, would be to look at the medical records, and specifically the fetal heart monitor strips. During labor, the mother will have this monitor strapped to her belly, and that monitor will record the fetal heart...

Cerebral Palsy is a type of brain injury. It can occur as a result of a lack of oxygen going from the mother to the baby during the course of a pregnancy and during the process of delivery. It can occur for a variety of reasons, one of which, by way of example, is the...

When we talk about wrongful birth we’re talking about a broad category of potential claims in which a person has not been given adequate information as to the nature of the pregnancy and the difficulties or abnormalities that the child is likely to be born with. That can involve a doctor simply failing to advise a patient...

The overwhelming majority of the clients that come in, they are really reluctant to get involved in litigation. I hear this time and time again, “You know I’ve never sued anybody before” and I always pause and think about the newspaper articles that says, “Everybody is suing everybody else, it’s a litigation implosion” and really...

When to contact an attorney? If you believe you have a potential medical malpractice case, you should contact an qualified medical malpractice law firm immediately. The attorney will want to begin an investigation of the possible claim. He needs to get records; he needs to interview witnesses; and the earlier that that attorney gets the...