Reports from Our Medical & Medication Error Lawyers

Part Two: Abnormal Apgar Scores are not Always Present when a Fetus has Suffered Hypoxic or Anoxic Birth Injury By David A. Bowling and Lauren P. Jones A Multipart Series from the Bowling Law Firm, APLC I.      Introduction In our first installment of this series, we presented an overview of the criteria for establishing a hypoxic or anoxic birth injury as published by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (“ACOG”). We emphasized that to establish that a child’s cerebral palsy or other neurologic disorder was a product of the birthing process, attorneys must be prepared to address the criteria published by ACOG for establishing that the infant suffered an injurious hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). In ACOG’s view,......

By David A. Bowling and Lauren P. Jones A Multipart Series from the Bowling Law Firm, APLC I. Introduction As a firm with a major concentration in the representation of families of children who have suffered hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (“HIE”) and/or cerebral palsy, The Bowling Law Firm is frequently faced with challenges from defendants arguing that the birthing process was not the cause of our clients’ babies’ neurologic injuries. We must confront contentions that the brain injuries were due to processes prior to labor and delivery, events after labor and delivery, infection, genetic or metabolic derangements, or a myriad of alternate proposed causes. The obstetrical community, led by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (“ACOG”), has a substantial interest in......