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Caring for a child who is injured at birth is not only emotionally challenging but also financially taxing. Birth injuries sustained during labor or delivery may require life-long care and the costs associated with medical treatments, therapies, nursing and special care, medications and assistive equipment that your child may need can quickly add up. Attorneys at G&E are experienced, compassionate, and willing to fight for your child against negligent healthcare providers to obtain the compensation your family deserves.
G&E attorney Lisa Weinstein has a successful track record litigating personal injury, medical malpractice and birth injury matters obtaining multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts on behalf of her clients. Ms. Weinstein has played a significant role in more than 40 cases against hospitals and healthcare providers, resulting in life-changing awards for families totaling over $300 million in verdicts and settlements, some of which are included below:
- $20 million verdict (too much Pitocin, fetal distress, vaginal delivery, permanent brain injury)
- $12.5 million settlement (VBAC, delay in recognizing fetal distress, uterine rupture, emergency C-Section, Spastic Quadriplegia)
- $9.75 million settlement (non-reassuring fetal heart rate pattern, vaginal delivery, Spastic Quadriplegia)
- $9.35 million settlement (delay in calling C-Section for fetal distress, emergency C-Section, Spastic Quadriplegia)
- $9.2 million settlement (providers were monitoring mom but not baby, fetal distress, vaginal delivery, HIE, Spastic Quadriplegia, cerebral palsy)
- $9 million settlement (non-reassuring fetal heart rate pattern, transferred for hypothermia cooling outside 6 hour window, spastic quadriplegia)
- $8 million settlement (traumatic delivery, skull fractures, cerebral palsy)
- $8 million settlement (delivery in jail, delay in taking to hospital, permanent brain injury)
- $7.9 million settlement (face presentation, non-reassuring fetal heart tracing, permanent brain injury)
- $7.5 million settlement (delay in recognizing fetal distress, cerebral palsy)
- $7 million settlement (too much Pitocin, traumatic delivery, permanent brain injury)
- $6.5 million settlement (too much Pitocin, non-reassuring fetal heart tracing, emergency C-section, cerebral palsy)
- $6.5 million settlement (high-risk mom did not receive required 24/7 fetal monitoring, resulting in Spastic Quadriplegia cerebral palsy)
- $6 million settlement (3 avulsions, brachial plexus injury, Horner’s syndrome)
- $5.925 million settlement (cerebral palsy, too much Pitocin, delay in recognizing fetal distress)
- $5.7 million settlement (decreased fetal movement, delay in recognizing fetal distress, emergency C-Section, HIE, catastrophic brain injury and cerebral palsy)
- $5.5 million settlement (traumatic delivery, cerebral palsy)
- $5.5 million settlement (cerebral palsy, too much Pitocin, non-reassuring fetal heart tracing)
- $5 million settlement (delay in recognizing fetal distress, cerebral palsy)
- $4 million settlement (delay in recognizing placental abruption, baby suffered catastrophic damages)
- $3.5 million settlement (baby suffered lack of oxygen at birth, resulting in development delays)
- $3 million settlement (too much Pitocin, non-reassuring fetal heart tracing, failure to intubate for 16 minutes, cerebral palsy)
- $3 million settlement (emergency C-Section, traumatic delivery in the operating room causing skull fractures, permanent brain injury and cerebral palsy)
- $1.3 million settlement (failure for nurses to recognize non-reassuring fetal heart tracing, failure for nurses to go up chain of command with hand prolapse)
- $1 million settlement (obstetrician’s policy for failure to call C-Section due to hand prolapse)
- $775,000 settlement (baby suffered avulsion injury during delivery, brachial plexus injury)
Contact us at (877) 262-9767 if your child was injured at birth. Every case is different and prior results may not guarantee similar outcomes. You and your family deserve to receive legal help in navigating your claim seeking a financial future for your child.
