May 9th, 2024
ACTS LAW obtained a $7.25 million medical malpractice settlement. In this case, a 32-year-old woman was pregnant with twins after In Vitro pregnancy. Mother arrived at hospital at 34 weeks gestation with heavy vaginal bleeding.
The Labor & Delivery nurse initially failed to recognize and treat the matter as emergent. When she finally called the obstetrician, the doctor failed to order emergency C-Section despite the fact she knew pregnancy was high risk. During the C-Section performed 3 hours after arriving at hospital, there was heavy bleeding due to placenta being low-lying, requiring the placenta to be incised during C-Section to deliver the baby. The nursing staff nor the OB called for a Neonatologist to be at birth, and one was not called until one hour after delivery. Although our client was delivered with obvious signs of severe Neonatal Anemia, there was a four-hour delay in providing the child a blood transfusion to replace the blood lost during delivery.
Twin brother was delivered in perfect health. Child suffered hypoxic brain injury and renal failure due to the delay in restoring blood loss which breached the standard of care. Defense OB, neonatologist and hospital claimed no breach of the standard of care and child had bleeding problems in utero before birth which could not be detected, which was the cause of his problems. They contended nothing could have been done to alter the outcome.
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