Category: Birth Injury

Any Maryland parent would agree that Nov. 14, 2009, should have been the best day of an expectant mother's life. Tragically, the mother believes that negligence on the part of two nurses attending her labor and delivery led to her child being born with brain damage. A jury agreed...

For most Maryland parents, it is difficult to imagine how a medical professional could overlook indications that something was wrong during childbirth, but that is what a judge recently concluded in ordering a hospital to pay $6.5 million in damages to one family. In a military hospital in Texas...

Childbirth delivery is thought of by many to be a pretty cut-and-dry area of medicine that does not significantly implicate medical malpractice issues. However, that's far from the truth. Medical malpractice attorneys in Maryland and throughout the country are usually experienced in handling a number of cases involving birth...

Mercy Medical Center, just minutes away from Laurel, Maryland, recently decided to sever ties with a group of midwives who had been used by the hospital for many years. Mercy made the decision because of doubling of medical malpractice insurance costs in 2013 that followed two suits against different Baltimore-area hospitals. The suits...

Some basic mistakes are made so often in birth cases that one wonders why the medical establishment hasn't resolved the problems by now. In a locality outside of Maryland, a university medical center has settled for $9 million with the parents of a baby delivered there. The baby has severe and permanent 

The health of an infant is the main concern of most expectant parents in Laurel, Maryland. However, a child can sometimes be born with defects due to birth injuries. A birth injury may occur due to medical error, error during delivery or a C-section that was not done quickly enough.

For many parents in Laurel, Maryland, the birth of their child is one of the most important events of their lives. However, not all babies are born healthy; some of them suffer from birth injuries. If that happens, the family of the victim may wish to file a medical malpractice lawsuit, particularly...

Although large medical malpractice awards have influenced hospitals and doctors to systematize and update their health care procedures to increase patients' safety, the awards have done nothing to fuel spiraling health care costs or to make malpractice premiums any higher. In Maryland and other states, restricting such awards has not resulted in...

When a pregnant woman is about to give birth, she has two options: vaginal delivery or Caesarean delivery. Surprisingly, the C-section is becoming the new trend for delivery. From 1996 to 2009, C-sections in the U.S. increased by 60 percent. And from 2009 to 2012, 31 percent of recorded births employed that...

After months of pregnancy, mothers in Prince Georges County can only wish for one thing-safe delivery. Giving birth is a very delicate process. One wrong move can cost the life of the mother or the child. In some cases, a baby suffers from an injury that could be either temporary or permanent....