Resources for Birth Injury Medical Malpractice | CHH Law

The last thing any parent expects on the day their child is born is a birth injury or defect. After months of careful planning and anticipation, complications can still arise during pregnancy, labor, or delivery, potentially leading to harm to the baby. When these injuries are avoidable, it becomes crucial to protect the legal rights […]
Birth Injuries + Pregnancy-Related Injuries

Informed Consent & Birth Injuries Although it is incumbent upon doctors and hospitals to make sure they do not break the standard of care when treating their patients – of which the failure to do so resulting in injury constitutes medical malpractice – mothers can also take action to make sure their doctors do not […]
Birth Injuries + Hospital Negligence

Common Types of Medical Malpractice Complications and bad outcomes are always a possibility in medical treatment. When healthcare professionals fail to meet an established standard of care leading to injury, illness, or death, it is a case of medical malpractice. Malpractice can take place at almost any stage of medical treatment – from the examination […]
Medical Malpractice

What Causes Birth Injuries? A baby’s injury is always devastating to the parents. It is all the more tragic when it occurs during, immediately after, or even before birth. You go from dreaming about all the possibilities for your child to confronting the harsh reality of the many limitations and challenges that now lay ahead. […]
Birth Injuries + Pregnancy-Related Injuries

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 the ability of our doctors to provide us with a certain level of skilled health care. We do so because one of the most fundamental […]
Medical Malpractice

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 is possible, however, that despite a doctor’s best efforts you won’t get better. If a doctor does the best job he or she can do […]
Doctor Errors

Joy and celebration should fill the home when a new child joins your family. But there are cases where sadness, fear, and anxiety dominate the day. This is because sometimes our children are the victim of a birth injury. While advances in medical care and better training and attentiveness of doctors and nurses have brought […]
Brain Injuries + Medical Malpractice + Pregnancy-Related Injuries

We frequently work with families struggling to understand a cerebral palsy diagnosis, including what caused the condition and how it will impact their child’s future. To provide a resource and starting place for these families, we recently published a white paper titled “Cerebral Palsy: A Message Of Hope For Illinois Families.” The most important piece […]
Birth Injuries + Brain Injuries + Pregnancy-Related Injuries

For an expectant mother, a vaginal delivery is typically expected and preferred. There are, however, cases where the health and very lives of mother and child are at risk. When these types of labor and delivery emergencies occur, doctors and nurses must often act to deliver a baby as quickly as possible which typically means […]
Birth Injuries

The birth of every child is special and unique. For most parents, the labor and delivery of a child culminates with the happy arrival of a healthy baby. However, in cases where complications occur during a baby’s delivery, a very different and tragic scenario may play out. After a normal and healthy pregnancy, a petite […]
Birth Injuries

Expectant parents are often overcome by feelings of anxiety and joy about the impending arrival of a baby. Expectant mothers in particular go the many highs and lows of pregnancy all with the expectation of holding a healthy baby at the end of their long journey. While medical advances have greatly improved prenatal care and […]
Birth Injuries

In March 2010, an expecting mother was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital. The following February, she and her husband would sue the facility for the complications they believe were caused by the hospital staff. According to the lawsuit, the parents believed that their son had suffered a birth injury in the form of oxygen deprivation. […]
Birth Injuries

A terribly botched delivery that led to the baby being born with severe brain damage has led to a $33.5 million verdict in favor of the child’s parents. Parents in Joliet may be interested to know of this example of a doctor and medical facility being held responsible for birth injuries that have lifelong consequences. […]
Birth Injuries

Birth injuries can turn any expectant parent’s dream of welcoming a new child into the world into an all-out nightmare. All too often, negligence that occurs during labor, delivery or immediately following delivery causes permanent damage to fragile newborns. When birth injuries do occur, hospitals and doctors can often be sued for damages. In a […]
Birth Injuries

Cesarean sections are among the most common operations in Illinois and around the country as more and more births are conducted using this surgery. One estimate says that up to one-third of births are now done by C-section. While C-sections are sometimes necessary, in many cases the surgeon causes harm to the mother or the […]
Birth Injuries

The birth of a child in Chicago should be remembered as one of the most joyous moments of one’s life. Although many women in Illinois have had great experiences when giving birth and holding their babies for the first time, there are also women who have not had the best experiences. In some cases, giving […]
Birth Injuries

Last week on our Chicago medical malpractice law blog, we had mentioned that a woman suffered serious complications after a routine Cesarean section because her doctor had failed to properly clean the surgery site before and after the operation. The woman developed an infection and was forced to undergo additional surgeries to get rid of […]
Birth Injuries

Pregnancy is an exciting time, even with morning sickness, trouble sleeping and other first-time experiences. It’s also a time when a woman’s health should be carefully monitored by Chicago physicians to avoid pregnancy-related injuries and birth injuries. For example, not monitoring a woman’s blood pressure during checkups while she is pregnant could be extremely harmful. […]
Pregnancy-Related Injuries

Bringing a child into the world is something women get to experience only a few times in life. Each pregnancy offers a unique experience for women, and each pregnancy should be treated as such by Chicago physicians. To make sure expecting mothers and their unborn babies receive proper medical care and attention throughout pregnancy and […]
Pregnancy-Related Injuries

Parents may never be more vulnerable or dependent upon medical professionals in any situation other than child birth. Chicago hospitals, doctors and nurses are required to minimize the risk of birth injuries by carefully monitoring mothers in labor and their unborn children. Any preventable error during labor and delivery could cause permanent harm to a […]
Birth Injuries