This month, an Oklahoma family was awarded $1.8 million in a birth injury lawsuit involving a vacuum extraction.  The jury awarded the plaintiffs $1.2 million for medical expenses and $600,000 for pain and suffering.

The lawsuit involved the birth of a girl who is now 3-years old, and has no function in her left arm and hand.  The doctor in charge of the girl’s delivery called for a vacuum delivery.  According to the plaintiffs, this decision was unnecessary because the child was in good health while in utero.

The child’s shoulder became lodged behind her mother’s pelvic bone during the vacuum delivery.  The doctor then pulled on the child to release her shoulder, causing permanent nerve damage.  Doctors are advised to use pressure around the pelvic area or move the mother’s legs when a child’s shoulder becomes stuck.

Contact the Philadelphia injuries from vacuum extractions lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130, if your child suffered injuries when a doctor performed a vacuum delivery.

Last week, a jury in Nebraska awarded $1.8 million to the family of a 3-year old girl who suffered permanent and paralyzing birth injuries.

The child was injured during her delivery in June 2008 when doctors used a vacuum to help the newborn out of the birth canal.  In the process, the child’s shoulder became lodged behind her mother’s pelvic bone and doctors pulled on her head to help her out.

According to the lawsuit, the vacuum delivery was unnecessary and the child’s nerve damage was caused by doctors pulling on her head.  The nerve and brain damage caused the girl’s left arm to be paralyzed.

The jury awarded the girl $600,000 for her pain and suffering and $1.2 million for past and future medical expenses.

To speak with an experienced and compassionate birth injury attorney about injuries related to a vacuum delivery, contact the Philadelphia injuries from vacuum extractions attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. by calling 215-238-1130 today.

In August, Lehigh Valley Hospital settled a wrongful death birth injury lawsuit filed by the parents of a newborn girl who died 3 days after her delivery at the hospital.  The parents, a couple from Allentown, were awarded approximately $1.5 million in the settlement.

The lawsuit accused the doctor who performed a vacuum extraction to deliver the newborn of causing a birth injury involving bleeding in the brain.

Furthermore, the hospital was  accused of negligence for failing to recognize symptoms of bleeding in the brain soon enough and ultimately causing the girl’s death.  According to the lawsuit, staff did not recognize signs of trauma in the girl until about 12 hours after her delivery.

The family of an 11-year old boy that was delivered using a vacuum delivery has sued the Winchester Medical Center in Winchester, Virginia.

According to the lawsuit, the boy suffers from brain damage, seizures, chronic headaches, language delays, and other health complications as the result of the vacuum delivery.  The lawsuit is seeking $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages.

The boy’s mother went into the hospital to deliver the boy on February 6, 2000.  Court documents state, “there were no complications or indications that necessitated the use of a vacuum device.”  However, a doctor in the delivery room instructed another doctor that had never performed a vacuum delivery to do so.

Shortly after the infant was born, he showed symptoms of experiencing a seizure.

Contact the Philadelphia injuries from vacuum extractions attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130 today, if your child was injured during a vacuum delivery.