Birth Injuries
Jury awards $50 million for birth injury
Jury awards $50 million for birth injury On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Birth Injuries on Wednesday, October 17, 2018. The delivery of a child is an anticipated and anxiety-inducing event for many parents in Louisiana and all over the world. Unfortunately, some infants suffer a debilitating birth injury during delivery. Some are able to recover and lead normal lives, but many are not. Following the conclusion of a recent lawsuit, one family has been awarded a $50 million judgment for the injuries their child suffered during birth. The child was the first born child for the mother, and she went into labor naturally. According to the lawsuit, the baby’s heart…
Read MorePreventable Maternal Injuries Abound in the United States
By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Friday, October 5, 2018. The United States has become the most dangerous country in the developed world for women to give birth, according to a USA TODAY report. This alarming statistic is highlighted in USA TODAY reporter Alison Young’s Hospitals Know How to Protect Mothers. They Just Aren’t Doing It. When compared to Germany, France, and England, there were more than twice as many incidences of maternal death in the United States from 1990 to 2015. In this country every year, more than 50,000 women sustain severe injuries during child birth, and approximately 700 women die, according to Young’s investigation. But these numbers could be greatly…
Read MoreBirth Center Deliveries: What You Need to Know
By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Friday, October 5, 2018. BATON ROUGE, Louisiana. Birth centers offer women an alternative to hospital deliveries. These centers often provide women a “home-like” setting in which to give birth, but they also provide the support of midwives and other professionals who can detect emergencies and intervene, if necessary. According to the New York Times, only 6 percent of women who seek to deliver through a birth center receive a C-section, as opposed to the 26% of women who seek to deliver through the hospital. C-sections, though common, carry some serious risks. According to the Mayo Clinic, babies born through C-section are more likely to develop a…
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