Category Archives: Birth Injury
Mechanical Birth Aids and Birth Injuries
Doctors often turn to the birth assistance devices listed below when a baby becomes lodged in a mother’s birth canal, often because of shoulder dystocia (SD), which is basically a baby with very broad shoulders or a baby drifting down the birth canal at the wrong angle. Seconds count in these situations. A distressed… Read More »
How Do You Diagnose a Birth Injury?
These injuries are very difficult to diagnose, mostly because they can occur before, during, or after delivery. Furthermore, these injuries are difficult to diagnose because they’re usually internal brain injuries, like cerebral palsy. So, neither the family nor a doctor knows about the condition until the child misses a series of developmental milestones. Additionally,… Read More »
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 »