Category Archives: Cerebral Palsy

According to the Herald Sun, the family of a young boy born with cerebral palsy is suing Queensland Health alleging the hospital staff who managed the birth were responsible for his disability. The family of six-year-old Dylan Wallace filed a lawsuit against the hospital claiming the staff failed to respond quickly to signs of distress in the womb. For at least an hour preceding his birth, the infant was starved of oxygen to his brain and consequently it lead to his cerebral palsy. The birth injury left Dylan with profound physical and intellectual disabilities, including quadriplegia, severe developmental delay and visual impairment. Dylan cannot move or speak and is fed through a tube into his stomach. The family’s birth injury attorney said the parents seek to settle the matter out of court but there are significant differences of opinion about Dylan’s life expectancy and the damages payment that he is…
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According to the Law Firm Newswire, an Atlanta jury recently agreed with a family that their daughter’s cerebral palsy was a direct result of negligence on part of the doctor and awarded them a multi-million dollar injury award. The birth injury lawyer representing the family called it a disturbing case with clear signs that could have avoided the results, if the medical professionals had acted promptly on symptoms of a baby in distress. At trial, the jury heard the story of how an expectant mother-to-be went for her regular checkups and the results of her non-stress test showed herb baby had a low heart rate. The doctor suggested that labor be induced and the parents agreed to go ahead with an emergency c-section. However, when the doctor induced labor, she decided against the c-section, causing the baby to not get enough oxygen needed to her brain. Cerebral palsy is caused…
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