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Birth Injury Lawsuits

$4,000,000 Brain Injury-Pretrial Settlement (Illinois): After a mom goes into labor, doctors will monitor the baby's heart rate. This is called fetal heart rate monitoring. If the baby gets in trouble during labor-has trouble getting oxygen-the baby's heart rate will change. Doctors and nurses are trained to watch for these warning signs, and if they see them, they are required to get the baby out by caesarean section as fast as possible. In this case, the baby began to show signs of distress-she was being deprived of oxygen-but these signs were missed, delaying the baby's delivery. As a result, the baby was deprived of oxygen and suffered severe brain injury. Brain injuries like this are called, cerebral palsy.

$2,500,000 Brain Injury-Pretrial Settlement (Georgia): In many cases, newborns will develop yellow skin and yellow eyes. This condition is called jaundice, which is caused by a substance in the blood called bilirubin. Jaundice is very common in babies, and usually goes away on its own. Occasionally, however, a baby has problems getting rid of bilirubin. If this substance is allowed to build up, it can cause severe brain damage (called, kernicterus). Getting rid of bilirubin, even in babies who have a hard time getting rid of it, is actually very easy-if the excess (hyperbilirubinemia) is promptly recognized. In this case, a little baby boy could not clear bilirubin on his own. Unfortunately, his doctor failed to recognize the excess and didn't treat it until the boy suffered severe brain injury.

$2,000,000 Brain Injury-Pretrial Settlement (Arizona): Pitocin is a drug doctors use to create contractions in a mother, to speed up the birth of a baby. However, as usual, too much of a good thing is almost always bad. Too much Pitocin will cause the mother to have too many contractions; too many contractions will put a baby at risk by not giving her enough oxygen between contractions. That is why doctors and hospitals are required to monitor the baby closely whenever Pitocin is used. In this case, they didn't, and the baby girl was born with severe brain injury.

If you have suffered a serious injury caused by medical malpractice, or a loved one has been seriously injured or died, we invite you to contact our firm and talk to one of our physician attorneys about whether a lawsuit would protect your best interests.

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Chicago medical malpractice attorneys at Cirignani Heller & Harman LLP offer representation to victims injured by physicians, hospitals, and other medical care providers throughout Chicagoland, including the cities of Cicero, Oak Park, Maywood, Berwyn, Elmhurst, Addison, Skokie, Des Plaines, Mount Prospect, Arlington Heights, Palatine, and Northbrook, and the Chicago collar counties of Cook County, Kane County, Lake County, McHenry County, and Will County, IL. CH&H also offers its services nationally. In addition to its primary Midwest location, Chicago, CH&H has a particular focus in Atlanta in the south and Yuma in the west.