{"id":339,"date":"2015-07-14T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagobirthinjurylawyersblog.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2016-09-05T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T16:34:32","slug":"250000-jury-verdict-in-shoulder-dystocia-birth-injury-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/250000-jury-verdict-in-shoulder-dystocia-birth-injury-case\/","title":{"rendered":"$250,000 Jury Verdict in Shoulder Dystocia Birth Injury Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the birth of Jasmyn Finch, the obstetrician, Dr. Claire Bernardin encountered Jasmyne\u2019s shoulder stuck behind her mother\u2019s pelvic bone or sacral promontory. When a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shoulder_dystocia\">shoulder dystocia<\/a> does occur during the delivery phase, it is considered an emergency. It is a dangerous occurrence that can be overcome with the use of maneuvers, such as the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McRoberts_maneuver\"> McRoberts maneuver<\/a>. Jasmyne suffered shoulder dystocia, but with the help of an assistant, Dr. Bernardin delivered Jasmyne. Unfortunately, Jasmyne was born with left brachial plexus injury.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/brachial-plexus-injury\/home\/ovc-20127336\">brachial plexus injury<\/a>, Jasmyne, who is now 19, cannot lift her left arm above her shoulder. In addition, her left shoulder is 8 centimeters shorter than her right arm.<\/p>\n<p>The brachial plexus is a network of nerves that runs from the spine, neck and through the shoulders. In childbirth, when the shoulder gets stuck as in Jasmyne\u2019s situation, the nerves can be stretched or torn and permanently disrupted. Some brachial plexus injuries heal without the need of surgery. But in this case, the injury to the right shoulder was permanent and devastating.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/250000-jury-verdict-in-shoulder-dystocia-birth-injury-case\/#more-339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the birth of Jasmyn Finch, the obstetrician, Dr. Claire Bernardin encountered Jasmyne\u2019s shoulder stuck behind her mother\u2019s pelvic bone or sacral promontory. When a shoulder dystocia does occur during the delivery phase, it is considered an emergency. It is a dangerous occurrence that can be overcome with the use of maneuvers, such as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injury","category-brachial-plexus-injury","category-shoulder-dystocia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$250,000 Jury Verdict in Shoulder Dystocia Birth Injury Case &#8212; Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"During the birth of Jasmyn Finch, the obstetrician, Dr. Claire Bernardin encountered Jasmyne\u2019s shoulder stuck behind her mother\u2019s pelvic bone or sacral\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/250000-jury-verdict-in-shoulder-dystocia-birth-injury-case\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"$250,000 Jury Verdict in Shoulder Dystocia Birth Injury Case &#8212; 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