Twenty-year-old Miranda Casanova understands first-hand the challenges of being physically disabled. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at a young age, the self-proclaimed “wheelchair-bound sass queen” has been chronicling her struggles and triumphs in life as a motivational speaker, blogger and aspiring writer. In a recent op-ed... Read More

No amount of money can ever suffice when a healthy baby perishes due to a preventable birth injury. However, it is important that a medical malpractice lawsuit hold the negligent party responsible to stop future tragedies from occurring. A 34-year-old from Camden, New Jersey filed... Read More

Maryland’s MedStar Harbor Hospital and Johns Hopkins Hospital were both named as defendants in recent medical malpractice lawsuits involving birth injuries. Jurors involved in each birth injury lawsuit rendered multimillion-dollar verdicts, which remain under appeal. Many critics of today’s legal system argue that medical malpractice... Read More

A Kentucky mother has been awarded $18.3 million by a jury on behalf of her disabled son. The child has been diagnosed with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, the most serious type of spastic cerebral palsy. In his cerebral palsy lawsuit, his mother alleged his injuries... Read More

Three families in Oregon who claim that their children suffered serious birth injuries as a result of a mishandled delivery have each filed a cerebral palsy lawsuit against Silverton Hospital. In each case, the infants in question have serious and irreversible brain damage and cerebral... Read More

Following a harrowing and emotional trial before a Glasgow, Kentucky jury, ten out of 12 jurors agreed that T.J. Samson Community Hospital engaged in negligent conduct with regard to one of its patients during the birth of her son, who now suffers from a debilitating... Read More

A court in Gwinnet County, Georgia rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff Melissa Dempsey, both individually and as the guardian of her daughter in a birth injury lawsuit. The case centered around allegations that attending nurses at Gwinnett Medical Center misinterpreted vital information from... Read More

A family from Calgary, Canada has filed a cerebral palsy lawsuit that demands $12 million in compensatory damages for their young daughter’s medical complications. The birth injury complaint claims that doctors were negligent during the labor and delivery of the now two-year-old toddler. The plaintiffs... Read More