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Jury Selection Begins in North Carolina Birth Injury Case

Posted on January 22, 2014 by

According to the Burlington Times-News, on January 13, jury selection began in a medical malpractice case stemming from a 2011 birth injury. The lawsuit was filed in September 2011, and the trial is expected to last three weeks. In the suit, the plaintiffs, a mother, father and their 2-year-old son, allege that negligence by a Burlington women’s clinic and obstetrician during the child’s birth resulted in birth injuries, including the boy losing the normal use of some body parts. The complaint states that after the child was born by cesarean section on May 2, 2011, following 18 hours of labor, he “was floppy, had no tone, response or heart rate,” and was diagnosed with “hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and birth asphyxia,” which will require him to have special care for the rest of his life. According to the lawsuit, the family is contending that the obstetrician failing to respond correctly to the…
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Maternity Wards Spend One Fifth of Their Budgets Covering Birth Injury Claims

Posted on January 21, 2014 by

According to a report in The Telegraph, nearly £500 million, or one fifth of the budget, of maternity units in the United Kingdom was spent on covering birth injury claims. In the same report, it was revealed that more than half of maternity units had a shortage of physicians and there is shortage of close to 2,300 midwives nationwide. However, these types of problems are not limited to the UK. In the United States, on December 23, a Lehigh County, Pennsylvania jury awarded $55 million to parents who sued St. Luke’s University Hospital and one of its doctors for medical malpractice, according to The Express-Times. During the November 2009 delivery of their son, the parents accused the doctor of ignoring signs that their son was not receiving enough oxygen and required a Caesarean section delivery, which led to their son losing more oxygen when he became stuck during vaginal delivery….
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Texas Family Plans to File Lawsuit After Forceps Allegedly Crush Daughter’s Skull

Posted on January 15, 2014 by

According to the New York Daily News, a five-day-old baby from Texas died after her skull and spine were allegedly cracked by forceps during her delivery. The baby, Olivia Marie, died after her doctor, George T. Backardjiev, of the Medical Center of Southeast Texas, reportedly refused to perform a cesarean section (C-section) on December 28, 2013. Olivia’s mother, Rachel Melancon, reportedly asked the doctor about performing the procedure prior to the baby’s delivery because of her small size. Rachel is reportedly 4’11”, and had fears that her small frame might complicate a natural birthing process. Backardjiev reportedly told family members that the C-section procedure would leave a scar on her body and cautioned against it. During labor, which lasted 18 hours, Olivia’s heart rate reportedly increased, but her mother was still told to wait before a procedure could take place. Backardjiev reportedly told the Rachel that her baby was facing…
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