{"id":952,"date":"2018-04-30T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/?p=952"},"modified":"2018-04-28T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T12:22:00","slug":"5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"$5 Million Confidential Settlement for Birth Injury in Failure to Treat Group B Strep Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this confidential settlement, the case arose after Ms. Doe was admitted to a hospital in pre-term labor at 29 weeks gestation. During her 39-hour admission, she received medication to prevent a premature delivery. The hospital staff then discharged her. One day later, laboratory results revealed that she had an E-coli urinary tract infection<\/a> and that she was positive for Group B strep. <\/a><\/p>\n

Within a week, she went into labor and delivered her baby by Cesarean section. The baby has been diagnosed as having brain damage, resulting in cerebral palsy, developmental delays and learning disabilities. <\/p>\n

Doe sued the hospital and several treating healthcare providers alleging that they chose not to administer antibiotics before discharging her from the hospital based on her pre-term labor and preliminary lab results, which were available before her discharge.
\n Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this confidential settlement, the case arose after Ms. Doe was admitted to a hospital in pre-term labor at 29 weeks gestation. During her 39-hour admission, she received medication to prevent a premature delivery. The hospital staff then discharged her. One day later, laboratory results revealed that she had an E-coli urinary tract infection and […]<\/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":[4,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injury","category-brain-injury","category-labor-and-delivery-negligence"],"yoast_head":"\n$5 Million Confidential Settlement for Birth Injury in Failure to Treat Group B Strep Infection — Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this confidential settlement, the case arose after Ms. Doe was admitted to a hospital in pre-term labor at 29 weeks gestation. During her 39-hour\" \/>\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\/5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"$5 Million Confidential Settlement for Birth Injury in Failure to Treat Group B Strep Infection — Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In this confidential settlement, the case arose after Ms. Doe was admitted to a hospital in pre-term labor at 29 weeks gestation. During her 39-hour\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Kreisman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"$5 Million Confidential Settlement for Birth Injury in Failure to Treat Group B Strep Infection — Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog","description":"In this confidential settlement, the case arose after Ms. Doe was admitted to a hospital in pre-term labor at 29 weeks gestation. During her 39-hour","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"$5 Million Confidential Settlement for Birth Injury in Failure to Treat Group B Strep Infection — Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog","twitter_description":"In this confidential settlement, the case arose after Ms. Doe was admitted to a hospital in pre-term labor at 29 weeks gestation. During her 39-hour","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Robert Kreisman","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection\/"},"author":{"name":"Robert Kreisman","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/ae618c31c5d751b2186328799051a39c"},"headline":"$5 Million Confidential Settlement for Birth Injury in Failure to Treat Group B Strep Infection","datePublished":"2018-04-30T15:00:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection\/"},"wordCount":371,"articleSection":["Birth Injury","Brain Injury","Labor and Delivery Negligence"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection\/","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection\/","name":"$5 Million Confidential Settlement for Birth Injury in Failure to Treat Group B Strep Infection — Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-04-30T15:00:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/ae618c31c5d751b2186328799051a39c"},"description":"In this confidential settlement, the case arose after Ms. Doe was admitted to a hospital in pre-term labor at 29 weeks gestation. During her 39-hour","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/5-million-confidential-settlement-for-birth-injury-in-failure-to-treat-group-b-strep-infection\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"$5 Million Confidential Settlement for Birth Injury in Failure to Treat Group B Strep Infection"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/","name":"Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog","description":"Personal Injury Attorney \u2014 Robert Kreisman","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/ae618c31c5d751b2186328799051a39c","name":"Robert Kreisman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Robert Kreisman"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/"]}]}},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7H3WV-fm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}