Birth Injury Lawyer

Phillip Wickman, a 14-year-old boy with Cerebral Palsy, is one of many children who are trying aquatic therapy as a treatment option for neuromuscular disorders.  While Wickman ordinarily has difficulty controlling his body on land, in the water, he has found success in controlling his limbs and moving about freely.  Like Wickman, children […]

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The pain of birth injury is probably too much to handle for expecting parents, even if it is only to consider the thought.  The fact that some babies have to suffer the minute that they are brought into this world seems to be cruel, unusual and unfair.  In honesty, modern medical facilities are […]

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European researchers recently discovered that women who are taking medicine for their epileptic seizures during pregnancy have higher rates of births in which the children have major defects.  Of the group of mother-child pairs that were studied defects ranged from genital disfiguration to immature hip joints, a flattened head, toe webbing, and even a hole […]

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Last month a country jury in Florida awarded a family $35 million in a malpractice lawsuit.  In this suit, the Broward General Medical Center was accused of botching the birth of the now mentally retarded boy.  According to the family’s doctor, the mental retardation was caused by the mismanaged birth. 
Now that the family has […]

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It is easy for us to think of disabled individuals as always needing help in some way, shape, or form.  Their dependence upon the immediate family and sometimes complete stranger paint a picture of incapability and helplessness, much like that of a newborn child.  However, every once and a while something happens that challenges our […]

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