Birth Injuries

The Centre Daily Times reports that Judith Meyers, a 70-year-old woman from Centre Hall, PA, filed a lawsuit against the Mount Nittany Medical Center, Healthsouth Nittany Valley Rehabilitation as well as several doctors. The lawsuit claims that they did not order tests in time that could potentially have diagnosed a tumor. An emergency surgery left her paralyzed. Pennsylvania nedical malpractice includes misdiagno [...]

A Scranton-area obstetrician was denied an appeal in a malpractice case filed by a Pennsylvania family. According to TheTimes-Tribune.com, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel White filed a suit against Dr. Richard Behlke and OB/GYN Consultants Ltd. after their son suffered cerebral palsy caused by medical mistakes when he was born in 2001. He is also nearly blind. A common birth injury, cerebral palsy can result from medical malp [...]

Having a baby is often a joyous event, however, complications may arise, causing lifelong defects and other issues that may affect an infant’s ability to grow and enjoy life fully. Birth injuries are caused by a number of reasons, including the baby’s position or size during labor as well as the possibilities of gestational diabetes and premature or prolonged labor. Many birth injuries in Pennsylvania are mino [...]

The trial is going to begin in a medical malpractice lawsuit following the death of a University of Pennsylvania sophomore. She died in September 2007 of meningitis. According to an article on Philly.com, her family claims that the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was negligent in performing a lumbar puncture on a patient with brain swelling, and that her brain herniated, killing her. The hospital mainta [...]

A Florida dentist is being sued for allegedly dropping tools down the throat of an elderly patient - twice. According to an article, relatives of the 90-year-old man recently filed the suit in circuit court accusing the dentist of negligence. The lawsuit that the elderly man’s family filed claimed that the doctor dropped an “implant screwdriver tool” in 2006 and a “mini-wrench” in 2007. The suit also sa [...]