Category Archives: Birth Injury
What Parents Should Do After a Birth Injury in Florida
Knowing what to do after a birth injury in Florida can be challenging. If your child’s injury resulted from medical negligence, you should pursue a claim for compensation. However, dealing with legal issues can seem overwhelming, especially when you want to focus your time and energy on your newborn baby. Our firm’s birth injury… Read More »
Navigating the Legal Process After a Birth Injury
When a baby is on the way, the last thing families expect is for their child to be hurt by a medical professional. Unfortunately, babies may have injuries due to the negligence of medical providers. This can leave families with immense emotional distress, pain, and financial difficulties. If your baby is harmed by malpractice,… Read More »
Birth Injury Cases Consolidated: Claims Link Acetaminophen And Autism
Class action lawsuits are in the news quite often, but proceedings in a recent case should be of interest for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A recent article published by Reuters covers the development, in which 66 cases involving claims of birth injuries from acetaminophen were… Read More »
How Can Cervical Incompetence Lead To Birth Injuries?
A woman’s cervix plays multiple, important roles during pregnancy. It initially serves as support for the growing fetus, and then gradually opens late-term to accommodate the infant moving through the birth canal. Cervical insufficiency is a medical condition that occurs when there are weaknesses or structural defects that affect these functions. According to the… Read More »
March 2022 Was National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
There was a time when individuals with certain medical disorders were marginalized and isolated from society, imposing barriers to education, employment, and other aspects of the community. Thankfully, these barriers have been broken down in recent years, partly due to awareness campaigns like National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month (NDDA). This March 2022, the event… Read More »
What Parents Need To Know About NICA Compensation After A Birth Injury
OB/GYNs and other physicians involved with pregnancy and birth are hit with some of the highest rates of medical malpractice claims in all of medicine. To ease the financial burden on health care providers and the insurers that provide them with malpractice coverage, lawmakers enacted the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan in 1988…. Read More »
Is There A Statute Of Limitations For Florida Birth Injuries Cases?
When health care providers deliver the news that your newborn has been diagnosed with a disabling medical condition, the conversation will focus on immediate treatment and ongoing care. Physicians are less likely to raise the issue of how your baby’s disability might have been prevented, or whether the birth injuries were the result of… Read More »
Preeclampsia And Stroke: Relationship And Risk Factors
Two important events coincide in May 2021 as they do every year: National Stroke Awareness Month and Preeclampsia Awareness Month. It may not seem like these initiatives are related, but the National Institutes of Health reports that preeclampsia is associated with a 4-fold increased risk of stroke. Ramifications for both mother and child can… Read More »
4 Things South Florida Parents Need to Know About C-Section Errors
There are numerous reasons pregnant women and their OB-GYNs discuss C-section as the due date approaches, and just as many situations where a physician orders the procedure after labor is already underway. Experts at the Mayo Clinic report that a surgical method is often considered the safest in the presence of certain risk factors,… Read More »
What are My Rights if Birth Injuries Caused My Child’s Klumpke’s Palsy?
As a generic term, palsy refers to various types of paralysis accompanied by weakness, lack of control, and loss of sensation at the affected area of the body. You may be familiar with Erb’s palsy and cerebral palsy as some of the top medical conditions that result from birth injuries, and these are certainly… Read More »
The Link Between Race Disparity and Birth Injury Malpractice in the State of Florida
We at Freidin Brown, P.A. hope to bring to light a disappointing pattern of disparity in the healthcare treatment received by Florida’s expecting mothers as well as the medical implications that in turn affect the health of those babies. This pattern of healthcare inequity is something that Freidin Brown’s attorneys hope to disrupt by… Read More »
Birth Defects v. Birth Injury: The Distinction Matters Under Florida Med Mal Laws
Couples spend the duration of pregnancy eagerly anticipating the birth of their child, so they look forward to the delivery process and the joyous occasion when a new life emerges. As a result, there can be an extreme amount of stress and uncertainty if the birth did not go as planned. Health care providers… Read More »
Life Care Plans for Children with Birth Injury-Related Cerebral Palsy
A diagnosis of cerebral palsy can have a tremendous emotional impact on the family – especially when the condition was caused by a Florida health care provider’s medical mistake. The financial implications regarding the costs of medical care after a devastating birth injury are also difficult for families to deal with. Statistics from the… Read More »
Pain and Suffering Damages for Cerebral Palsy Birth Injuries
If your child suffered a birth injury that led to cerebral palsy, you can expect that there will be physical pain that lasts a lifetime. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mentions such complications as muscle stiffness, spasms, and difficulties controlled movement. However, your child may sustain additional losses while getting older…. Read More »
Uncovering Common Errors Causing Birth Injuries
As a type of personal injury claim, birth injury lawsuits in Florida typically follow the same pattern as other medical malpractice cases. To prevail, you need to prove that the health care provider breached the relevant standard of care, and this error was the direct cause of harm to you and/or your baby. Florida’s… Read More »