Jessie Trice Community Health Center Patient is Awarded $33.8 Million in Damages for Pregnancy-Related Medical Malpractice

This series of events resulted in Dixon giving birth to a baby who wasn’t breathing, and though he was successfully revived, he had suffered significant brain damage due to the lack of oxygen at birth.

The tragedy of this case is that Dixon did not have a high-risk pregnancy and that the baby’s brain damage could have been entirely avoided had a Cesarean section been done in time. Now, the baby boy (6 years of age) only has a life expectancy of an additional 3 to 6 years, and he will require around the clock care for the rest of his life.

Upon the District Judge’s ruling, Marla Dixon was awarded $3.3 million, and the baby’s father was awarded $1.1 million for their pain and suffering. Additionally, the judge awarded another $21.7 million for the baby boy’s economic damages and $7.6 million for his pain and suffering.

Legal Matters

A pregnancy-related injury or birth injury is a type of injury that you, as a mother, or your baby suffers before, during, or just after the birthing process. You will know if your pregnancy-related injury or birth injury is as a result of medical malpractice, as they only occur when a healthcare professional acts negligently and fails to uphold the standardized quality of care that is expected in their medical profession and within the medical community.

Generally, legal claims from pregnancy-related injury and birth injury cases seek monetary compensation for the resulting ongoing medical and therapeutic costs associated with the injury. Additionally, this compensation may take the pain and suffering of you, your child, and your family into account.

If you decide to file a medical malpractice lawsuit, then you must begin the process as quickly as possible, as there are certain laws and statutes of limitations that each state needs to adhere to.

Therefore if you live in NYC, you should make contact with a qualified medical malpractice lawyer who can guide you towards fulfilling the four legal elements that are required for your claim to be valid. Based on these elements, your NYC medical malpractice attorney will help you prove that:

• Your healthcare professional had a professional and legal obligation to provide adequate care to you and your child
• Your healthcare professional breached this obligation by failing to provide an appropriate standard of care to you and your child
• Your injury and/or your child’s injury resulted from the breach of this obligation
• The injury that you and/or your child sustained is something that the legal system can provide compensation and redress

If your NYC medical malpractice lawyer believes that your case is valid and has a good probability of success going to trial, then they will likely offer to represent you and guide you through the trial process as well.

Contact

If it is your belief that either you or your child may have experienced some form of pregnancy-related injury or birth-related medical malpractice, then please contact the medical malpractice lawyers of Rosenburg, Minc, Falkoff & Wolff LLP in NYC today.

You can speak to one of our medical malpractice attorneys when you are ready to talk by calling 212-344-1000 for a free, confidential consultation.