Birth Trauma Or Birth Injury Lawyers Discuss Jury Award For Brain Injury At Birth

On February 5, 2016, the family of a girl who suffered permanent neurological injury at birth was awarded $29.89 million by a Massachusetts jury, according to MassLive.com. The jury concluded that a physician was negligent in his treatment and care of the girl. The civil suit was originally filed against six physicians involved in the girl's birth. One of the six doctors was later removed as a defendant, and four others were found not negligent. The suit alleged that from September 5 to September 6, 2004, the remaining defendant failed to do seven things, including a timely emergency caesarean section. This caused...

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Work Accident Lawyers Note Case Of Worker Caught In Hot Asphalt

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A worker at a Jacksonville, Fla., asphalt plant went through a harrowing eight-hour ordeal during which he was stuck standing in hot tar. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the operator of the plant, Atlantic Coast Asphalt, with 10 serious health and safety violations. The federal agency defines serious violations as those that create a substantial possibility of injury or death in situations that workers either knew of or should have known of. Atlantic Coast Asphalt is a supplier of asphalt products to both commercial and residential customer in the southeastern part of the country. Fines Assessed OSHA, in a press...

March 2016

Birth Trauma Or Birth Injury Lawyers Discuss Jury Award For Brain Injury At Birth

Work Accident Lawyers Note Case Of Worker Caught In Hot Asphalt