$20 Million Settlement in Birth Injury Case Against Overlake Hospital
News: Medical Mistakes at Overlake Hospital Result In $20 Million Medical Malpractice Case Against Overlake Doctors and Nurses For Birth Injury To Newborn
A new mother was admitted into Overlake Hospital Medical Center for the delivery of her first child. She’d had a normal, uneventful pregnancy.
The second phase of labor started at 9pm. Examinations showed that the baby was occiput posterior and several times during her labor the baby had to be manually rotated. In between these rotations the doctor delivered several other babies (5 that same day). AT 2:30am the doctor rotated the baby again and then left to take a nap and wait for the mother’s epidural to take effect. At 3:00am the mother sign forms to consent to a C section. At 4:30am the mother was taken to the operating room to be prepped for surgery and the electronic fetal monitor was disconnected and never reattached. The baby was delivered by C-section shorty after 5am and did not display any life signs. There were no neonatologists on hand and resuscitation efforts were not started for several minutes. No vital signs were apparent until more than 20 minutes after delivery. The baby’s brain had no oxygen for an extended period of time and it therefore suffered serious brain injury resulting in cerebral palsy and quadriplegia.
Medical experts determined that the doctors and nurses at Overlake violated the standard of care at multiple points including when they failed to properly monitor the baby both in utero and in the operating room. Over the course of the mother’s labor and baby’s delivery the nursing staff violated several of Overlake’s own policies and procedures.
Insurance companies for the hospital, doctors, and nurses paid $20 million dollars in settlements to the family.
Note: names, case details, plaintiffs, defendants, insurance companies, attorneys and other information are not published here.
If you or a loved one were a patient at Overlake Medical Center and were the victim of hospital negligence or malpractice on the part of one of your providers the medical malpractice attorneys at Davis Law Group can help. Schedule a free legal consultation.
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