{"id":348,"date":"2015-08-12T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagobirthinjurylawyersblog.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2019-10-17T05:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:40:14","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-confirms-contested-3-million-settlement-in-birth-trauma-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-confirms-contested-3-million-settlement-in-birth-trauma-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Confirms Contested $3 Million Settlement in Birth Trauma Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 5, 2015, Jaclyn Pena-Prather arrived at Sherman Hospital in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofelgin.org\/\">Elgin<\/a>, Ill., for an elective induction of labor. She was more than 41 weeks\u2019 pregnant. She was a patient of Dr. Carol Korzen, who practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Elgin.<\/p>\n<p>After admission, an external monitor was applied, and the fetus was continuously monitored throughout labor. At 2:15 a.m. on Sept. 6, 2015, she received an epidural for pain. At 4:45 a.m., a nurse contacted Dr. Korzen to update her on the patient&#8217;s progress. Dr. Korzen was present at 7:20 a.m. Pena-Prather was coached to begin pushing. At 8:21 a.m., the baby, Gianna, was delivered vaginally, weighing 6 lbs., 4 oz.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gianna\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/article\/003402.htm\">Apgar scores <\/a>were very low. One minute after birth, Gianna\u2019s score was zero. At 5 minutes, her score was 1. At ten minutes, her score was 3. The umbilical cord was described as \u201cthin and shoe-string-like,\u201d and was coiled seven times. Gianna was diagnosed with <a href=\"http:\/\/cerebralpalsy.org\/about-cerebral-palsy\/cause\/hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy\/\">hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy <\/a>(HIE) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/article\/000335.htm\">metabolic acidosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-confirms-contested-3-million-settlement-in-birth-trauma-injury\/#more-348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 5, 2015, Jaclyn Pena-Prather arrived at Sherman Hospital in Elgin, Ill., for an elective induction of labor. She was more than 41 weeks\u2019 pregnant. She was a patient of Dr. Carol Korzen, who practiced obstetrics and gynecology in Elgin. After admission, an external monitor was applied, and the fetus was continuously monitored throughout [&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":[4,23,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injury","category-brain-injury","category-cerebral-palsy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Confirms Contested $3 Million Settlement in Birth Trauma Injury &#8212; Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Sept. 5, 2015, Jaclyn Pena-Prather arrived at Sherman Hospital in Elgin, Ill., for an elective induction of labor. 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