In Connecticut the Justice Department has awarded $115,000  to a tenant because the landlord refused to allow the tenant to have an assistance dog in the home. It  was claimed in the lawsuit that the tenant’s daughter needed the dog to help with her cerebral palsy, depression and seizure disorder.  The lawsuit also claimed that [...]

As reported in the Chicago Tribune an Aurora woman has settled her malpractice suit for fifteen million dollars.  Vanessa Jenkins had brought suit against the doctor, hospital and staff alleging that her son Cody suffered brain damage because, during her labor, the doctor used a vacuum device improperly thus causing brain damage. Her attorneys said that [...]

Heather Grow’s daughter, Cassie, was delivered by caesarian section but only after she had been stuck in the birth canal for over thirteen hours.  In 1997 Heather was told that she had a narrow pelvic arch and that became an issue about two weeks before delivery when her doctors realized that the baby was about [...]

In 2004 William Duckworth was working as a civilian employee at Kadena Air Base in Japan.  His daughter Aubrey was born at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Okinawa in September of 2004. Because her mother’s uterus ruptured during birth Aubrey was not  receiving oxygen and, as a result, is severely disabled.  She must be fed [...]

At least it appears to be in the northeast.  This just a blog post announcing a settlement.  Note how the post says that the plaintiff will receive $29 Million over the course of her life.  That is because the present value of the settlement may be $3 Million but that is used to purchase an [...]

This from a video report of a $2.4 Million dollar settlement in a case in New York.  The child suffers severe brain damage and the settlement should go a ways to help the family. Kelly Hunt-Force was born at corning hospital in 1998 with cerebral palsy. Her family says it’s a result of nurses who [...]

This from an article in Ireland.  A settlement in a birth injury case involving a failure to properly electronically monitor the labor as is progressed.  The result was severe cerebral palsy. Details were not disclosed except that it was substantial and the full amount claimed. In a statement read out in court by Mrs Swaine [...]

This one was approved by a judge to put an end to the 4 year old case. Labor proceeded appropriately until several minutes after Radis started pushing and fetal monitor tracings indicated the baby was not tolerating labor. Physicians and nurses attempted to expedite the delivery by using a vacuum extractor to bring the baby’s [...]

Out of the Boston Area this morning. The family of a 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy has been awarded a multi-million dollar medical malpractice settlement. NewsCenter 5′s Gail Huff reported that Dustin Turner was born with cerebral palsy after a traumatic delivery at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital. Dustin can smile and gurgle, but those are his only [...]