A wrongful birth medical malpractice case alleges that a heath care provider such as a doctor (such as an OBGYN or radiologist), hospital or laboratory was negligent by failing to properly inform a pregnant mother that her fetus had some serious medical condition, so that the mother would have had…
Earlier this month, a Prince Georges County, Maryland jury awarded nearly $400,000 for wrongful birth as the result of the mother/wife becoming pregnant after undergoing a bilateral tubal ligation (BTL) procedure. A BTL is a surgical procedure that involves blocking the fallopian tubes to prevent the female’s egg from being…
As a Maryland medical malpractice attorney, I am occasionally asked what the difference is among the type of medical malpractice cases that are called wrongful birth and wrongful life cases. These type of cases generally fall into three categories. The first, sometimes labeled “wrongful conception” or “wrongful pregnancy,” are brought…
As a Maryland medical malpracitce lawyer / attorney, many people ask me what is a wrongful birth case. In Maryland, a wrongful birth case is a case in which parents of a child born with birth defects allege that the negligence of prenatal health care providers deprived them of the…