Parents of babies born with brachial plexus injuries often have no warning about their child’s condition, as only a select number of characteristics have been identified as risk factors. A recent study published in the Jan. 14 edition of the Journal of Perinatology offers insights... Read More

The Florida Supreme Court has declined a request to review a dispute regarding malpractice liability on the part of two doctors at the University of Miami. The case revolves around a brain injury suffered by a now 17-year old boy during his childbirth at Jackson... Read More

An Indiana couple is fighting the malpractice cap in Indiana on behalf of their disabled daughter. The couple filed a lawsuit against the hospital where the child was born, alleging negligence and malpractice led to their daughter’s birth injuries. However, the case has been stalled... Read More

On March 16, 2009, Air Force veteran Jorge Ortiz and his wife welcomed their new baby daughter after a harrowing delivery at Evans Army Community Hospital in Colorado, where the mother was an active duty Air Force Captain. The childbirth – a planned C-section delivery... Read More

The United States has been named as a defendant in a new birth injury lawsuit, which was recently filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a West Virginia mother and her... Read More

Dr. June Colman of Houston has been accused of malpractice and improper use of vacuum suction that allegedly killed an infant boy during childbirth. The Houston Press reports that the obstetrician purportedly mismanaged the delivery at Pasadena’s Bayshore Medical Center, after gruesome details of the... Read More

A Missouri couple has filed a birth injury lawsuit against the two OB/GYNs who delivered their son. The parents claim the negligent behavior of the doctors caused their child to be born with debilitating birth defects he will have for the rest of his life.... Read More

  On Dec. 2, defendant Pfizer scored a notable victory in the ongoing Zoloft multidistrict litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Judge Cynthia M. Rufe issued an order that the opinion of Dr. Nicholas Jewell Ph.D. — the... Read More