A New York lawyer named Thomas Moore represents 10-year-old Shannon Reilly who suffers from cerebral palsy. According to ABA Journal, St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson committed medical malpractice during her birth. Before her case first went to trial in 2009, her attorney “turned down an $8 million settlement.” Moore must have truly believed in Reilly’s [...]
0 comments
To Resuscitate or Not To Resuscitate
Imagine your 87-year-old grandma is in a nursing home when she suddenly collapses and stops breathing. You would expect the nurses around her to do anything and everything in their power to help your grandma breathe again, right? Well wrong! According to USA Today, 87-year-old Lorraine Bayless was not given CPR when she collapsed in [...]
Thousands of babies are born each year with significant birth defects caused by the negligent acts of their health care providers. Unfortunately, birth injuries caused by medical negligence are issues that many families are forced to deal with. Here at LawInfo.com, we offer helpful information regarding birth injuries and provide a list of experienced attorneys who can help you recover [...]
Here is a story you don’t hear everyday. Dirk Schroeder was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had to undergo routine surgery. He was told that his life expectancy was another 6 years from that point. Unfortunately, the routine surgery did not go as planned because the surgeons had apparently left 16 different items inside his [...]
I recently touched on a serious form of a Brachial Plexus birth injury called Erb’s Palsy. Now, I want to expand on Brachial Plexus birth injuries by informing the readers of this blog about another brachial plexus birth injury called Klumpke’s Palsy. It is my priority to keep the readers of this blog informed about [...]
