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    • Birth Injuries: Shoulder Dystocia and the Injuries it May Cause
    • Cerebral Palsy: Common Causes and Symptoms
    • Childhood Strokes Often Missed by Doctors
    • Is that C-Section Necessary? Assessing the Need for the Risky, Overprescribed Procedure
    • Ohio Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Prove Complex, Lengthy & Expensive
    • Ohio Reports Increase in Number of “Closed” Insurance Claims for Medical Malpractice
    • Ohio Supreme Court Limits Recovery for Wrongful-Birth Negligence
    • One Out of Every 1000 Newborns Suffer From Erb’s Palsy
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  • Asphyxia
    • Birth Injury, Intrapartum Asphyxia, Premature Rupture of Membranes, Premature Labor
    • Failure of OB Nurses to Appropriately Interpret Non-Stress Test
    • Failure to Appreciate Fetal Distress
    • Failure to Appreciate Fetal Distress and Intervene to Avoid Profound Birth Asphyxia
    • Failure to Properly Interpret NST During Pregnancy
    • Failure to Protect Premie From Foreseeable Pulmonary Complications
    • Failure to Timely Appreciate Asphyxia Process and to Intervene Via Emergency Cesarean Section
    • Failure to Timely Appreciate Patient's Fetal Distress and to Intervene to Avoid Her Birth Asphyxia
    • Hospital's Nurses Negligently Managed the Patient's Induction Resulting in Severe Birth Asphyxia and Brain Damage
    • Obstetrical Caregivers Failed to Timely Diagnose Uterine Rupture and Intervene to Avoid Severe Birth Asphyxia and Subsequent Brain Injury
  • Birth Injury
    • Bilateral Brachial Plexus Injuries
    • Birth Trauma Leading to Brain Damage and Death
    • Failure of Obstetrical Care Team to Intervene to Avoid Birth Asphyxia
    • Failure to Appreciate Uterine Rupture and Intervene Via Emergency Cesarean Section
    • Failure to Appropriately and Timely Diagnose Mother's Cephalopelvic Disproportion (CPD) Causing Child's Traumatic Brain Injury
    • Failure to Appropriately Resuscitate Plaintiff
    • Failure to Carefully Ligate Umbilical Cord, Resulting In Severing Child's Great Toe, Major Fluctuation in Child's Blood Pressure and Subsequent Brain Damage (Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Delays)
    • Failure to Perform a Timely Cesarean Section Showing Evidence of Fetal Distress
    • Failure to Provide Intra-Partum and Immediate Post-Partum Antibiotics
    • Failure to Timely Appreciate Fetal Distress in Twin B and to Intervene Via Cesarean Section
    • Failure to Timely Deliver Newborn Results in Catastrophic Brain Damage (Cerebral Palsy & Developmental Delays)
    • Failure to Timely Diagnose Pre-Eclampsia Leading to Maternal Death
    • Mismanagement of Labor; Failure to Timely Appreciate Fetal Distress
    • Negligent Management of Shoulder Dystocia/Erb's Palsy During Mother's Labor
    • Obstetrical Team Negligently Failed to Appreciate an Abruption and Timely Intervene to Avoid Brain Injury
    • Utilization of Excessive Force to Effect Delivery From Mother With Small Pelvis
  • Birth Trauma
    • Birth Trauma From Forceps, Negligent Credentialing
    • Failure to Appropriately Manage Preeclampsia Resulting in Brain Damage
    • Negligent Management Of Vacuum Extractor
    • Shoulder Dystocia/Permanent Brachial Plexus Injury
    • Shoulder Dystocia/Permanent Brachial Plexus Injury -- $1.175 million
    • Shoulder Dystocia/Permanent Brachial Plexus Injury $400,000
  • Cerebral Palsy (CP)
    • Failure to Timely Administer Surfactant In A Premature Newborn
  • CPD: Cephalopelvic Disproportion
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• Types of Birth Injury
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  • Developmental Delay
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  • Wrongful Death of Fetus or Child
  • Wrongful Death of the Mother
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