Chicago Illinois Family Received $14 Million in Birth Injury Settlement
A Chicago family reached a $14 million settlement with Northwestern Memorial Hospital Tuesday after their son suffered a severe brain injury during birth resulting in Cerebral Palsy.
The Plaintiffs asserted that their baby boy was not breathing when he was born and that emergency staffers were not prepared to resuscitate him because the doctors mistook the mothers pulse for the child’s. The obstetrician and nurse allegedly misinterpreted the boy's heart rate before the delivery and did not realize the baby was in fetal distress; furthermore, a neonatal resuscitation team was not called to help the newborn until after he was delivered.
As a result, the child went without oxygen for seven minutes which caused him to suffer from spastic quadriplegia.
