Resources on Birth Injuries

Birth Injuries: Understanding Your Rights During Birth Injury Awareness Month

Jonathan Stone January 24, 2025 No Comments

January marks Birth Injury Awareness Month, a time to shed light on the challenges faced by families affected by birth injuries and to emphasize the importance of accountability in medical…

Recognizing Common Doctor Errors

Jonathan Stone December 2, 2024 No Comments

Understanding Common Forms of Medical Malpractice In medical treatment, complications and adverse outcomes are always possible. However, when healthcare professionals fail to abide by the applicable standard of care, resulting…

March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month

Jonathan Stone March 4, 2024 No Comments

It is estimated that more than 1.5 million people suffer brain injuries every year in our country. Brain injuries can cause severe physical and mental impairments, especially when not diagnosed…

Understanding Medical Malpractice (Infographic)

Jonathan Stone July 7, 2017 No Comments

Understanding medical malpractice and why it happens can be difficult. This post and infographic will hopefully help. When we go to a doctor or hospital, we put our faith in…

Doctor Errors, Bad Outcomes, and Medical Malpractice

Jonathan Stone June 2, 2017 No Comments

A bad outcome to a medical procedure is the last thing anyone plans on when going to the doctor. After all, you go to the doctor to be healed. It…

Jury concludes doctor did everything to try to safely deliver baby

Jonathan Stone April 26, 2013 No Comments

Earlier this week, a family learned that a jury decided to side with a doctor in a medical malpractice lawsuit. The family’s child had suffered an injury during birth five…

Researchers say fewer hospitals, doctors performing early deliveries

Jonathan Stone April 23, 2013 No Comments

As we have mentioned in previous posts on our Joliet medical malpractice law blog, birth injuries can have devastating effects on families, babies and new parents in Will County, even…

Safer today, but pregnancy and childbirth still have risks

Jonathan Stone February 12, 2013 No Comments

Advances in modern medicine continue to astound us and have surely been benefiting patients and families in Joliet. It seems our country has come light years, from even just a…

Part 2: What are birth injuries and how do these injuries happen?

Jonathan Stone October 25, 2012 No Comments

Earlier this week on our Joliet medical malpractice law blog, we started a general discussion about birth injuries and how some types of birth and brain injuries occur when doctors,…

Part 1: What are birth injuries and how do these injuries happen?

Jonathan Stone October 23, 2012 No Comments

A birth injury can occur when a mother experiences a complicated pregnancy or delivery. Sometimes these complications cannot be avoided. And even when Joliet doctors do properly monitor a woman’s…

Families deserve to hold doctors accountable for tragic mistakes

Jonathan Stone October 19, 2012 No Comments

Some Joliet residents might not understand why it is necessary for some victims of medical malpractice to be awarded a significant amount of money for damages. Perhaps a recent lawsuit…

Birth injury award ruling: What will it mean for Illinois cases?

Jonathan Stone October 6, 2012 No Comments

Any Illinois family who has been through the horror of a medical error knows how difficult the repercussions can be. Though a favorable settlement or judgment against the negligent medical…

Jury finds in favor of teen who suffered brain injury at birth

Jonathan Stone August 30, 2012 No Comments

Seventeen years ago, a woman who was six months pregnant with twins sought medical attention at a hospital because she was worried that she was having contractions. Sometimes doctors are…

Family awarded millions to cover child’s birth injury expenses

Jonathan Stone August 22, 2012 No Comments

When Joliet obstetricians, nurses and other medical professionals who are involved in the process of delivering a baby fail to monitor a mother and her unborn child during birth, any…

Brachial plexus injury should have been prevented, mother says

Jonathan Stone August 3, 2012 No Comments

After nine months of a healthy pregnancy, a Joliet couple might not expect to encounter any major problems during the labor and birth of their child. Should any complications arise,…

Hospital’s mistake to delay birth causes baby to suffer injuries

Jonathan Stone July 25, 2012 No Comments

Two years ago, a pregnant woman suspected that she was beginning to go into labor because her water had broken. When a pregnant woman’s water breaks, amniotic fluid begins to…

Parents reach settlement with hospital over baby’s brain injuries

Jonathan Stone July 18, 2012 No Comments

When Illinois medical professionals make mistakes during labor and birth, babies are at risk of suffering serious or fatal injuries. Sometimes these injuries may require only a few extra days…

Illinois woman seeks $50,000 in medical malpractice suit

Jonathan Stone June 28, 2012 No Comments

A lawsuit has been filed against two doctors and one nurse at an Illinois hospital. The suit was filed by a mother who claims that the medical providers caused the…

Erb’s palsy birth injury prompts medical malpractice suit

Jonathan Stone June 6, 2012 No Comments

Illinois readers who are parents can understand what it’s like when you are eagerly awaiting the birth of your child. When a child suffers birth injuries during the delivery it…

Tag: birth injuries

Birth Injuries: Understanding Your Rights During Birth Injury Awareness Month

Recognizing Common Doctor Errors

March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month

Understanding Medical Malpractice (Infographic)

Doctor Errors, Bad Outcomes, and Medical Malpractice

Jury concludes doctor did everything to try to safely deliver baby

Researchers say fewer hospitals, doctors performing early deliveries

Safer today, but pregnancy and childbirth still have risks

Part 2: What are birth injuries and how do these injuries happen?

Part 1: What are birth injuries and how do these injuries happen?

Families deserve to hold doctors accountable for tragic mistakes

Birth injury award ruling: What will it mean for Illinois cases?

Jury finds in favor of teen who suffered brain injury at birth

Family awarded millions to cover child’s birth injury expenses

Brachial plexus injury should have been prevented, mother says

Hospital’s mistake to delay birth causes baby to suffer injuries

Parents reach settlement with hospital over baby’s brain injuries

Illinois woman seeks $50,000 in medical malpractice suit

Erb’s palsy birth injury prompts medical malpractice suit

Quick Links

Contact