What is Obstetrician Malpractice?
Pregnancies and giving birth are the most natural things in the world, with the majority of them proceeding uneventfully towards producing healthy infants. However, this does not mean there aren’t real dangers. Complications can occur even without negligent health care, but a failure to properly react to these complications can lead to catastrophic injuries for the infant, mother or both. Medical malpractice and negligent health care can occur both during the prenatal and labor & delivery stages, resulting in permanent brain damage, developmental and cognitive delays, paralysis, and host of other life-long injuries, including heart problems, respiratory problems and more. Often the nature and extent of the injuries are not immediately apparent. It is often impossible to know how severely an infant is injured until he grows and his progress can be contrasted with that of other infants of similar ages. Moreover, poor prenatal and labor/delivery care can injure the mother, resulting in st
