$6,000,000.00 recovery -- Philadelphia County

Our client’s daughter was born with cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia after the doctor and midwife in the labor and delivery unit of the hospital failed to recognize the baby was in distress yet chose to continue with the labor and not perform a C-section. We were able to prove that the midwife had concerns about the baby, but that the doctor failed to timely respond and see the patient. When a doctor finally saw the mother, he did not call for a C-section and allowed the labor to continue to progress. By the time the baby was delivered, the brain damage was irreversible due to oxygen deprivation while in her mother’s womb. The hospital, and it doctor and midwife settled the case several days before the trial was scheduled to begin.

Key to the result we secured on behalf of our client was our ability to compel important admissions from the health care providers during their sworn depositions, to discover and use against those providers the hospital policies and procedures which they violated, and to extrapolate from hospital laboratory records and internal hospital laboratory protocols key information to defeat the defendants’ causation defense that the child’s brain injury occurred before the mother even arrived at the hospital.