Category Archives: Brain Damage
Parents Sue Lakeland Regional Medical Center for Daughter’s Brain Injury
According to the News Chief, a Florida couple is suing Lakeland Regional Medical Center and Central Florida Health Care alleging medical errors caused their daughter’s cerebral palsy. Fiona and Stanley Brown, parents of 6-year-old Fiona Brown, claim the hospital and two registered nurse practitioners, Pamela Barany and Joan Sarratt Bardo, were negligent and caused Destiny’s brain injury. According to the complaint, Central Florida Health Care DBA Lakeland OB-GYN provided Fiona Brown with prenatal care throughout her pregnancy. Brown went for a regular check up on September 28, 2005 and nurses observed signs and symptoms of high blood pressure. A nurse midwife in the office instructed Brown to go to the Lakeland Regional Medical Center for a further observation. At the hospital, the fetal monitor strip indicated a decrease in fetal heart rate. Brown was 38 weeks pregnant at the time when medical personnel informed her that she needed an emergency…
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Birth Injury Victim Compensated $2.3 Million
A small boy of four in Virginia Beach is now a multimillionaire. A birth injury lawsuit filed by his mother after her son was permanently disabled due to birth injuries has netted $60,000 to the mother for medical expense reimbursement, and the amount of $2.3 million in damages to the boy. This award will allow the boy to have medical care, assistance, and compensation for difficulties and challenges he will face as an adult. The defendants in the case included nurse-midwife Rhonda Bertholf, and the medical practice of Dr. Richard M. Valentine Jr. M.D.,PC. Because Valentine’s practice is associated with Bertholf he was named as a defendant in the birth injury malpractice suit even though he had no involvement in the actual delivery. Information about the birth details, circumstances and the specifics of the birth injury were not disclosed except that the mother who filed the suit claims that her…
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Experts Disagree on Shaken Baby
When Joshua Miller was accused of shaking his infant son so severely that it caused bleeding into the baby’s eyes and brain he was charged with aggravated assault, child endangerment, reckless endangerment and simple assault. In January of 2009 Mr. Miller and his son were home alone. Miller made a frantic call to 911 saying that his son was unresponsive and gasping for breath. Upon arrival at the hospital the baby was treated and transferred to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh where he was kept for 7 days. When this case went to court it there were conflicting opinions in what could have caused the bleeding the infant’s brain. The prosecutions medical expert said that the bleeding was due to the baby being shaken, and that no evidence was found to indicate that there was any underlying problem that would have caused the bleeding. Another expert who has written extensively…
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