Cerebral Palsy

A report recently released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revealed that in 2009, hospitals received $30.4 billion from Medicare to treat injuries that hospitals themselves inflicted. The hospitals harmed patients through faulty care, provided additional care to treat the harm they caused, billed Medicare for the corrective care, and then reaped a [...]

Medical science has been struggling to pinpoint the cause of cerebral palsy for a century. Commonly linked to premature birth, efforts to prevent the condition have centered on improvements to fetal monitoring, medications, Cesarean deliveries and neonatal care. The latest news shows these efforts appear to be making a difference. Better care during pregnancy and birth [...]

When a brain-injured infant is born and preventable medical error is suspected, the medical malpractice debate has been quick to focus on the usefulness of Electric Fetal Monitors. Even though the tracings may have clearly showed an infant in distress – warnings that were misread or worse, ignored, by doctors and nurses at the bedside [...]

According to a major new research study, if a baby is delivered early or late, it increases the odds that the infant will develop cerebral palsy (CP). Although premature birth has long been known as a factor in cerebral palsy, this is the first study that links past-term delivery to higher CP risk.

Thanks to a $15.5 million jury award, Minnesota taxpayers won’t have to foot the bill for a lifetime of care for a child permanently disabled by birth injuries due to medical negligence, his lawyer said today. “The economic burden will fall on those responsible for his condition, not on public health services, which often pick up the tab in catastrophic situations. This is not only justice for the child and his family, but for society as a whole,” said Howard Janet, of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLP, Baltimore, MD.

Jury awards record verdict for child’s cerebral palsy caused by brain injury sustained during birth. A Minnesota jury awarded $9.3 Million to the family of a child who developed cerebral palsy as a result of mismanagement of labor and delivery.

A York County jury on Friday awarded $4.4 million to the parents of a child who suffered a brain injury at birth. The award was against Piedmont Hospital.

On April 14, 2005, a South Carolina jury awarded Lisa and Damon Viele, and their daughter Elizabeth $3.7 million dollars to compensate them for Elizabeth’s cerebral palsy injuries that she suffered at birth following Lisa’s doctor’s failure to perform a timely delivery. At trial the jury agreed that the doctor should have saved Elizabeth when she had the chance. Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC, was privileged to represent this wonderful family, and was pleased they were able to provide adequate compensation for the child’s future needs.

By Autumn’s mother, Nancy: A mother’s personal account “My husband, Chuck, and I had been trying to have a child for some time. I was 38, so we were thrilled when we learned I was pregnant. All during my pregnancy my doctor kept telling me everything was going fine. “But then about a week before my due date, [...]