Category Archives: Birth Injury
How Much Compensation for Birth Trauma?
Compensation is usually high in birth injury matters, mostly because doctors have a fiduciary duty. Drivers must avoid accidents. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, and other professionals with fiduciary duties must go the extra mile to avoid accidents, or in this case, birth injuries. Many doctors don’t live up to their fiduciary duty. They put other… Read More »
The Before, During, and After of Birth Injuries
As a rule of thumb, about one in ten births involve, as doctors like to say, “some complications.” About one in ten of these incidents causes a lifelong or life-ending injury. Beginning at the first prenatal appointment (or initial file review for walk-ins) and ending at postnatal hospital discharge, doctors have a fiduciary duty… Read More »
