$1,500,000 Settlement For Child With Mild Hemiperisis
Plaintiff’s contended that nurses and physicians failed to appreciate non-reassuring indications during the labor process and that an expedited c-section would have prevented the child’s injuries. The fetal heart tracing revealed persistent variable decelerations followed by severe and prolonged decelerations and bradycardia thirty seven minutes prior to delivery. The child was transferred to a tertiary hospital where she responded remarkably well to a cooling protocol for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. The child’s neurologic examinations were near normal and there was scant, if any, evidence of a cognitive injury. She was walking at ten months, communicating well at eighteen months and expected to be mainstreamed in the public school system. She was diagnosed with a mild left hemiparesis and gastrointestinal disorder; neither condition requiring attendant care.
