A South Hadley couple is suing two Cooley Dickinson Hospital (CDH) doctors over an alleged botched birth that left their daughter with cerebral palsy. They filed the lawsuit last month in the Hampshire Superior Court. According to the complaint, CDH’s doctors, Jay Sprong and Lisa... Read More

A Queens mother has been accused of stealing funds her daughter received from a medical malpractice settlement for her own lavish expenditures. In late February, Megan Mele was charged with second-degree grand larceny and second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, after she allegedly created... Read More

According to a Massachusetts jury, a doctor’s negligence caused a Holyoke girl’s severe brain injury at birth. The Hampden Superior Court jury awarded the girl’s family nearly $30 million on their medical malpractice claim over the birth injury. The girl’s parents, Luis Gallego and Jeanette... Read More

A nine-year-old boy from North Carolina, along his mother as his natural guardian, has filed a birth injury lawsuit against a New York hospital seeking compensation for his ongoing medical care. He filed the complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District... Read More

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in Georgetown, Guyana recently received notice of at least two medical malpractice lawsuits, one of which alleges negligence in the delivery of a stillborn child. Both of the mothers are demanding compensatory damages in excess of $20 million Guyanese... Read More

Medical advances in the field of obstetrics have changed lives of women and children all over the world. Pregnancy and childbirth are safer now than they have been at any other point in history. However, stillbirth rates are not going down - even in advanced... Read More

In May 2013, Danielle Yeager became pregnant with her first child. After touring a few local hospitals and feeling less-than-welcome at a prenatal visit with an obstetrician, she decided to consider home birth options. In an interview with Pacific Standard, Yeager revealed that she conducted... Read More

Legacy Emmanuel Medical Center and a Portland-area family have agreed to an out-of-court settlement to resolve the birth injury lawsuit. The parents had filed the lawsuit in 2015, in which they demanded compensatory damages of $36 million for their son’s cerebral palsy. The lawsuit alleged... Read More