$94,812,240 Jury Verdict - Failure to Delay Premature Birth
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy. The child's mother presented at a hospital with contractions at 27 weeks. She was sent home and returned 3 days later in pain and having contractions. The child was born prematurely by C-section and suffered serious injuries, including cerebral palsy and periventricular leukomalacia. Read more about the case involving failure to delay premature birth.
$31,860,000 Jury Verdict - Failure to Perform Timely C-Section
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with developmental delays and seizures. The child's mother was about a week past her due date when she was seen at a hospital. She was induced and her membranes ruptured. Meconium was observed. Four hours after her membranes ruptured, the child was delivered via a C-section. Read more about the case involving failure to perform a timely C-section and meconium aspiration.
$31,575,000 Jury Verdict - Failure to Monitor Metabolic Acidosis
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy and brain damage. After the child's premature birth, no cord blood gases were done until later the next day. Although the first cord blood gases analysis suggested metabolic acidosis, the hospital did not take measures to adequately treat the metabolic acidosis. The premature infant had a hemorrhagic stoke, developed hydrocephalus, and had a permanent brain shunt inserted. Read more about the case involving the failure to monitor metabolic acidosis.
$29,000,000 Jury Verdict - Failure to Delay Pre-Term Birth
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy. The child was born prematurely, had Apgar scores of 4 and 4 at 1 and 5 minutes, respectively, and was described as limp and blue. Problems at birth included severe respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, funisitis and acute chorioamnionitis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, hyperbilirubinemia, and birth asphyxia. Read more about the case involving failure to delay a pre-term (premature) birth.
$26,000,000 Jury Verdict - Failure to Diagnose Renal Failure
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a plaintiff who had cerebral palsy and severe mental retardation, and seizure disorder after renal failure at 2 months of age. At 2 months old, plaintiff had been admitted to the defendant hospital where medical professionals, including a nurse and residents, failed to diagnose renal failure. Read more about the case involving failure to diagnose renal failure.
$20,000,000 Jury Verdict - Failure to Perform Exchange Transfusion
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with sickle cell disease who suffered massive brain damage. At age 7, the child presented to the defendant hospital with pneumonia, anemia and acute chest syndrome, a complication of his underlying disease in which " sickled cells" blocked the blood vessels of the lungs, leading to poor oxygenation of the blood, which leads to further sickling. The hospital performed a simple transfusion to treat the anemia but never performed an exchange transfusion to treat the acute chest syndrome. Learn more about the case involving failure to perform an exchange transfusion.
$15,000,000 Settlement - Periventricular Leukomalacia and Cerebral Palsy
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child who suffered from periventricular leukomalacia and cerebral palsy due to a delay of effective ventilation at the child's birth, which was premature. Read more about the periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) lawsuit settlement.
$13,629,000 Jury Verdict - Failure to Diagnose Pre-Term Labor
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with brain damage and spastic diplegia. At 28 weeks gestation, the child's mother experienced pinkish discharge and cramping. The defendant doctor's office told her to call back if the symptoms persisted but did not recommend she see the doctor. Later that day, she insisted on seeing a doctor, who prescribed Macrodantin and sent her home. The next day, the child was born. Read more about the lawsuit involving failure to diagnose pre-term labor.
$10,239,723 Jury Verdict - Failure to Timely Perform C-Section
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with severe brain damage, spastic quadriplegia, and blindness. The mother had been admitted to a hospital ill-equipped to handle the delivery. After a delay in transferring the mother to another hospital, the child was delivered by C-section. Read more about the lawsuit involving failure to timely perform a C-section.
$8,000,000 Settlement - Failure to Diagnose and Treat Fetal Distress
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented twins, one with encephalopathy and the other with cerebral palsy. The children's mother's membranes broke at 29 weeks gestation. Although the mother was leaking amniotic fluid, a cesarean section was not performed until 2 days later. Read more about the case involving failure to diagnose and treat fetal distress.
$8,000,000 Jury Verdict - Failure to Perform Cesarean Section
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy. Doctors failed to perform a cesarean in a timely manner, resulting in cerebral palsy, mild learning difficulties, a seizure disorder and visual impairment. Read more about the lawsuit involving failure to perform a cesarean section in a timely manner.
$7,512,700 Jury Verdict - Delay in C-Section
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with spastic diplegia and learning difficulties. Experts contended that if the child had been delivered by C-section even one hour earlier, the child would not have suffered birth asphyxia and hypoxia (oxygen deprivation) and subsequent neurological deficits. Read more about the lawsuit involving birth asphyxia and delay in C-section.
$7,500,000 Jury Verdict - Failure to Treat Urinary Tract Infection in Pregnant Woman
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus, and learning difficulties. The hospital failed to treat the child's mother for a urinary tract infection, resulting in pre-term labor. Learn more about the lawsuit involving failure to treat a urinary tract infection.
$6,500,000 Settlement - Hospital Negligence in Delay to Perform C-Section
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented twins , both of whom had cerebral palsy. One of the twins also had autism. The twin's mother went to the hospital complaining that she felt “something coming out of her vagina”. Physical examination revealed that her cervix was 3-4 cm. dilated, with the leg of Twin A prolapsing through the cervix. On the fourth day of the admission, an ultrasound evaluation revealed that Twin A’s feet were in the cervical canal and Twin B was in breech position. Based on the evaluation, the consulting perinatologists decided to deliver the twins through an emergency C-section. Learn more about the case involving hospital negligence for delay in performing C-section.
$5,500,000 Settlement - Cerebral Palsy and Grand Mal Seizure
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy and brain damage. A C-section was not performed to deliver the child until about one hour after the C-section was ordered. A convulsive seizure ( GRAND MAL SEIZURE ) was noted at twelve hours of age. The child was diagnosed with fetal distress, meconium staining, perinatal depression and respiratory distress. Read more about the case involving cerebral palsy and a grand mal seizure.
$5,250,000 Settlement - Wrong Dose of Calcium Chloride
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child who had been administered the wrong dose of calcium chloride as an infant. The child, then a 9-day-old infant, was brought to the hospital defendant with severe jaundice and hyperbilirubinemia. I.V. with Calcium Chloride was ordered by the attending doctor and placed in the back of the child's left hand. The child's left arm later had to be amputated. Read more about the case involving administration of the wrong dose of calcium chloride to an infant.
$5,040,000 Jury Verdict - Lead Poisoning and Medical Malpractice
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented siblings who had suffered brain damage from lead poisoning. The hospital defendant failed to do a lead-risk assessment at each well-child visit and failed to give anticipatory guidance to the children's mother. Read more about the lawsuit involving lead poisoning and medical malpractice.
$5,000,000 Jury Verdict - Wrongful Death Resulting from Severe Preeclampsia
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented the family of a woman who died as a result of severe preeclampsia. The woman had seen her doctor a week before her death with some symptoms of preeclampsia. She was hospitalized a week later with severe preeclampsia and had her child delivered via a cesarean section. She died several hours later, never seeing her son. Read more about the wrongful death suit involving medical malpractice and severe preeclampsia.
$4,109,452 Jury Verdict - Failure to Perform Timely Caesarean and Cerebral Palsy
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy. The child's mother was left under the care of medical residents during labor. Although there was evidence of fetal distress, labor was induced before the child was eventually delivered via a caesarean section. Read more about the lawsuit involving a child with cerebral palsy.
$4,000,000 Settlement - Prenatal Diabetes and Cerebral Palsy
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy and severe disability. The child’s mother had prenatal diabetes and a urinary tract infection. Despite Plaintiff mother’s complicated obstetric history and prenatal complications, no proper antibiotics were administered. At birth, the child was described as blue, pale and floppy with occasional spontaneous respiration. Read more about the case involving prenatal diabetes.
$4,000,000 Settlement - Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy and learning difficulties. The child's mother presented at the hospital with
high blood presssure and leakage from broken membranes that evidenced the presence of meconium. The unborn infant experienced bradycardia, tachycardia, and thick meconium staining. The delay in performing a C-section allegedly caused hypo-ischemic encephalopathy, which led to cerebral palsy and learning difficulties. Read more about the case involving hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and cerebral palsy.
$4,000,000 Settlement - Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy, encephalopathy, developmental delays and brain damage. At birth, the child was diagnosed as having perinatal asphyxia, apnea, bradycardia of prematurity, and static encephalopathy. A head sonogram revealed extensive bilateral periventricular leukomalacia (PVL). Read more about the case involving encephalopathy and cerebral palsy.
$4,000,000 Settlement - Seizure Disorder and Cerebral Palsy
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy and other injuries. Prior to the child’s birth, his mother experienced cramps and vaginal bleed. She was admitted to the hospital. Despite alarming signs of the risk of premature birth, no drugs or treatments were provided to ensure the well-being of the child’s mother and the child. The child was born at 24 weeks of gestation and suffered numerous birth injuries. Read more about the case involving seizure disorder and cerebral palsy.
$3,500,000 Jury Verdict - Lead Paint Poisoning and Medical Malpractice
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with learning difficulties. The child had lived in an apartment with lead paint. The child's doctors failed to do a risk assessment for lead poisoning even though the child was at high risk and exhibited signs and symptoms of lead poisoning. Read more about the lawsuit involving lead paint poisoning and medical malpractice.
$3,500,000 Settlement - Cerebral Palsy , Mental Retardation and Global Developmental delays
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with Cerebral Palsy and other injuries. The child's mother presented at the hospital with vaginal bleeding. The hospital staff failed to diagnose and respond to fetal distress and lack of beat to beat variability. Read more about the lawsuit involving cerebral palsy, mental retardation and global developmental delays.
$3,500,000 Settlement - Bilateral Vitreous Hemorrhages, Blindness and Growth Plate Damage
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with Cerebral Palsy and other injuries. The child's doctor failed to diagonse and prevent preterm labor, right knee infection and retinopathy of prematurity, and provide and administer appropriate neo-natal care.Read more about the lawsuit involving bilateral vitreous hemorrhages, blindness and growth.
$3,500,000 Settlement -Celebral Palsy, Brain Damage and Global Developmental delays
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with Cerebral Palsy and other injuries. The child's doctor failed to detect and timely act upon premature labor and breakthrough cervical dilation. Doctor failed to diagnose and anticipate fetal respiratory distress and provide proper and adequate treatment. Read more about the lawsuit involving cerebral palsy, brain damage and global developmental delays.
$3,250,000 Settlement - Global Developmental delays, Brain Damage and Right Eye Estropia
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with Global developmental delays and other injuries. The child's doctor failed to monitor preterm labor and delivery. Read more about the lawsuit involving global developmental delays, brain damage and right eye estropia.
$3,150,000 Settlement - Periventricular leukomalacia, Cerebral Palsy and Mental Retardation
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with Global developmental delays and other injuries. The hospital staff were negligent in care and treatment of neo-natal newborn. The chid's doctor failed to diagnose gastroencephagal refulux. Read more about the lawsuit involving periventricular leukomalacia, cerebral palsy and mental retardation.
$3,000,000 Jury Verdict - Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Short Bowl Syndrome
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child who suffered from short bowl syndrome. The child was born pre-term and developed necrotizing enterocolitis, which led to short bowl syndrome (10 watery stools per day), a permanent condition. Read more about the lawsuit involving necrotizing enterocolitis and short bowl syndrome.
$2,900,000 Settlement - Intracerebral Hemorrhage- Cerebral Palsy - Developmental & Intellectual Delays
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child who suffered from intracerebral hemorrhage and cerebral palsy. The child was born with a thick meconium and a cord ph of 7.13. Shortly after birth the Infant Plaintiff developed grunting, alar flaring and retractions and was immediately was taken to a special care nursery as he suffered respiratory alkalosis. Read more about the lawsuit involving intracerebral hemorrhage and cerebral palsy.
$2,850,000 Settlement - Failure to Perform C-Section
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy. Although the child's mother was spotting at less than 26 weeks of gestation, the defendant doctor told her to simply put up her feet. The subsequent pre-term delivery of the child was difficult. Read more about the case involving failure to treat a high-risk patient and to perform a C-section.
$2,750,000 Settlement - Failure to Perform Cesarean and Birth Injury
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy. During labor and delivery, the child was stuck in the mother's birth canal without oxygen for 18 minutes. The child was cyanotic at birth. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving failure to perform cesarean and birth injury.
$2,550,000 Settlement - Mental Retardation, Cerebral Palsy, Seizure Disorder & Developmental Delays
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child who suffered mental retardation cerebral palsy, seizure disorder, and developmental delays due to improper medical treatment. Read more about the lawsuit involving cerebral palsy, seizure disorder & developmental delays.
$2,400,000 Settlement - Use of Forceps During Delivery
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with hemiparesis and
encephalomalacia. Child was born vaginally. The attending doctor used
Kielland forceps during a mid-forceps procedure for deep transverse arrest. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving the use of forceps during delivery.
2,292,500 Settlement - Cerebral Hemorrhage and Cerebral Palsy
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy, blindness, and other severe disabilities. Prior to the child’s birth, the mother was admitted to the hospital two times for pregnancy-induced hypertension. After birth, the Plaintiff remained hospitalized for two and a half months. During that time, the child had an intraventricular hemorrhage; grade IV intracerebral hemorrhage and post – hemorrhagic hydrocephalus. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving hemorrhage and cerebral palsy.
$2,000,000 Settlement - Forceps Delivery by Second-Year Resident
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with severe mental retardation and
spastic quadriplegia. The child was delivered by a medical resident, who used forceps. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving a forceps delivery by a medical resident.
$1,950,000 Settlement - Delay in Diagnosing Pneumothorax after Birth
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented twins, one with mild cerebral palsy. The twins' mother was not administered ritodrin to try prevent the premature birth. Medical defendants also failed to diagnose and treat pneumothorax in both twins and acidosis in the twin with mild cerebral palsy. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving a delay in diagnosing pneumothorax.
$1,850,000 Settlement - Delivery by Nurse Midwife
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy. The child was suffered fetal distress and was delivered by a nurse midwife. Medical residents performed resuscitation procedures, and the child suffered meconium aspiration. Read more about the case involving nurse midwife and hospital malpractice.
$1,750,000 Settlement - Delivery by Nurse Midwife
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with cerebral palsy. The child was delivered by a nurse midwife, although there
was evidence of intrauterine growth retardation during the pregnancy. Although noted to by cyanotic and jittery, the infant was given to the mother to bond with for a long period of time. There were also other delays in diagnosis and treatment resulting in cerebral palsy and blindness. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving nurse midwife malpractice.
$1,700,000 Settlement - Mother Left Unattended During Labor
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child who had spastic quadriplegia. The child's mother was left unattended during labor even though it was a pre-term birth. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving the mother left unattended during labor.
$1,700,000 Settlement - Baby Diagnosed wiith Bradycardia and Apnea
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child diagnosed with bradycardia and apnea. The hospital failed to diagnose and act upon the risks or prematurity, properly diagnose and treat the neonat's medical conditon. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving the baby diagnosed wiith bradycardia and apnea.
$1,600,000 Settlement - Shoulder Dystocia and Erb's Palsy
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with mild Erb's palsy. The child was delivered by the defendant's chief resident, who allegedly pulled and twisted the child's head for 5 minutes before the child could be delivered. Read more about the birth injury malpractice case involving shoulder dystocia and Erb's palsy.
$1,500,000 Settlement - Delivery by Vacuum Extraction
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with spastic quadriplegia and brain damage. During the child's mother's labor, bradycardia was observed. The child was delivered using vacuum extraction. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving a delivery by vacuum extraction.
$1,500,000 Settlement - Failure to Diagnose and Treat Lead Poisoning and Autism
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with autism. Up until about 15 months of age, the child had attained all developmental milestones in an age-appropriate fashion. At about 18 months of age, the child's mother noticed that the child had started to speak and eat less. The child's mother also observed the child's increasing hand-to-mouth activities. She reported all her concerns to the pediatric staff at New York Methodist Hospital during routine visits. However, no blood-lead test was performed. No questions were asked about the child ’s living conditions and no advice was given to the child ’s mother regarding house keeping methods or the child ’s diet. Read more about the lawsuit involving failure to diagnose and treat lead poisoning and autism.
$1,475,000 Settlement - Failure to Monitor Fetal Heart Rate and Hypoxia
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with severe mental retardation and motor deficits. During labor, the fetal heart rate strips allegedly indicated a loss of beat-to-beat variability. The defendants allegedly did not monitor the fetal heart rate, allowing hypoxia to remain undetected. Read more about the birth injury malpractice case involving failure to monitor fetal heart rate and hypoxia.
$1,000,000 Settlement - Inadequate Care Led to Autism Disorder
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with an autism disorder. Failure to monitor the child and mother during labor and delivery, failure to perform a timely C-section, and failure to conduct a comprehensive neurological exam after the child’s birth led to autism disorder. Read more about the case involving autism disorder (autistic disorder).
$800,000 Jury Verdict - Wrongful Death of Infant
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a woman whose infant had died at birth. Various problems with the labor and delivery led to the infant's death. The mother's ovaries were subsequently removed. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving the wrongful death of an infant.
$750,000 Settlement - Failure to Diagnose Herpes Encephalitis
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child with permanent injury to the right side of his body. This injury occurred when the child was an infant. At about 7 months of age, the child had signs and symptoms of herpes encephalitis, but was diagnosed with garstroenteritis and sent home. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving failure to diagnose herpes encephalitis.
$650,000 Jury Verdict - Amputations Resulting from Vasospasm
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child whose toes had to be amputated. Immediately after birth, the child was seriously burned during a heel-warming procedure. This caused a vasospasm, which required the amputation of all of the toes on the foot. Read more about the medical malpractice lawsuit involving amputations resulting from a vasospasm.
$604,000 Jury Verdict - Wrongful Death after Abortion
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented the family of a woman who wrongfully died after an abortion. Although the woman stopped breathing during the abortion procedure, she was left unattended in the recovery room. Read more about the wrongful death lawsuit involving a woman who had an abortion.
$500,000 Settlement - Laceration of Uterus During Abortion Procedure
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a woman who required a hysterectomy after her uterus was lacerated during an abortion procedure. Read more about the medical malpractice case involving an abortion procedure.
$450,000 Jury Verdict - Wrongful Death after Transfusion
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented the family of a woman who died after a blood transfusion. The woman, who had sickle cell disease, entered the hospital with severe anemia and painful sickle cell crisis.
As a result of a transfusion of mismatched blood, woman suffering acute renal failure and died. Read more about the wrongful death lawsuit involving a transfusion of mismatched blood.
$240,000 Jury Verdict - Dental Malpractice
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a child who developed periodontal disease from braces. Read more about the dental malpractice lawsuit.
$180,000 Jury Verdict - Stillbirth and Medical Malpractice
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald represented a woman who had her stillborn child delivered by C-section. The unnecessary C-section caused emotional distress and physical injuries. Read more about the medical malpractice lawsuit involving the delivery of a stillborn child.
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