by Marcus Boston | Mar 30, 2020 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
What are some typical questions in a free birth injury consultation? For the purpose of this birth injury educational article, I am going to take some time and explain what you might expect from the attorney you speak to about these issues. I think this is an...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 26, 2020 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
Why the defense might blame you in a birth injury case. To frame the issue another way, how might the defense defend your birth injury claim? For families who feel that their baby’s birth injury was preventable, this is a good way to help them understand some of the...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 23, 2020 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), Obstetrical Malpractice
So, the question basically boiled down to is there a cure for HIE and CP? CP in this article and supporting video is short for cerebral palsy. The background for this question stems from a video that I did a few days ago explaining how a HIE diagnosis, which...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 19, 2020 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
HIE and cerebral palsy are two conditions that some parents experience when they contact us looking for answers as to what caused the initial HIE diagnosis, and help regarding the future challenges that their baby might face now and into the future. Since March is...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 16, 2020 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
What might you expect during your mediation? This is an important question for not only a birth injury, or medical malpractice case, but for any case that requires some sort of negotiation. In my experience, clients start to bring this issue up as we start to...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 14, 2020 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
What information can I share with my birth injury attorney? To explain this issue further, the context of this question came from concerns regarding what would be shared, if anything, with other family members who might be witnesses in the case. What this issue boils...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 11, 2020 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work, Obstetrical Malpractice, Wrongful Death Cases
Will the doctor be present for your deposition? From time to time, around deposition scheduling, a client will ask this question. So, I decided to discuss this issue because it hits on a couple of key issues when a doctor is sued for medical malpractice. It has been...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 5, 2020 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy)
Umbilical cord prolapse and HIE, or to put the issue a different way, how can in some cases a baby with a prolapsed umbilical cord experience the medical condition HIE, or hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy? For many parents, these conditions can be a shock and are only...
by Marcus Boston | Mar 2, 2020 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cerebral Palsy, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), How Lawsuits Work
A snapshot of the trial process can go a long way to help people who have a civil trial scheduled get a basic understanding of some of the critical issues that are present when a civil case is filed. In many cases, especially from the birth injury or medical...
by Marcus Boston | Feb 27, 2020 | Birth Injuries, Blog, Cardiac Malpractice, Cerebral Palsy, Emergency Room Errors, Failure or Delay in Cancer Diagnosis, HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), Hospital Infections and Injuries, How Lawsuits Work, Misdiagnoses, Obstetrical Malpractice, Surgical Mistakes, Wrongful Death Cases
How can you screw up your deposition? This is something that was bluntly asked of me by someone who had watched one of our previous educational videos. After digging deeper and asking follow-up questions, the person wanted to know what are some ways in which a person...
