Birth Injuries
What Are the 3 Most Common Birth Injuries in Louisiana?
On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Birth Injuries on Wednesday, September 14, 2016. Having a baby should be one of the happiest moments in your life. Unfortunately, for many families, their special day is a confusing, even traumatic event that changes the course of their future. Just shy of 4 million babies were born in the United States in 2014, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System. This makes childbirth by far the most common reason why Americans visit the hospital. Unfortunately, many of those births don’t go as planned: According to the most recent data from the Healthcare Cost and…
Read MoreMother’s medical malpractice claim gets $16 million award
On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Birth Injuries on Wednesday, August 10, 2016. Louisiana, like other states, sees many birth injury claims annually. Occasionally, injuries during child delivery are suffered by the mother and not the baby. That happened recently when a woman suffered a permanently painful condition after going to a special center that advertised natural birth procedures. A jury recently awarded the woman $16 million in a medical malpractice claim against the center. The lawsuit claimed that the medical staff restrained the plaintiff, made her lay on her back and applied pressure to delay the birth. The mother ended up with Pudendal Neuralgia, a permanently painful nerve damage…
Read MoreMedical malpractice award of $53 million rendered by jury
On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Birth Injuries on Friday, July 1, 2016. It is reasonable to expect that some of the largest settlements and jury verdicts in medical negligence cases in Louisiana and elsewhere come in the birth delivery and birth injury cases. One factor is that when a child is permanently disabled for life as a result of medical malpractice there is a need to provide professional care to the child for a lifetime. Another factor is the need to add the cost of future medical bills for treatment, medication, rehabilitation and potential surgeries for the remainder of the victim’s life. In one case recently decided, the jury…
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