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The biggest trap is thinking this means a baby was simply born "not breathing" for a moment. It is more specific than that. Birth asphyxia is a lack of enough oxygen and blood...

vacuum extraction injury

Missing what happened during a difficult delivery can leave a family without answers until a baby shows signs of bleeding, skull injury, nerve damage, or oxygen loss. A vacuum...

meconium aspiration

A finding like this can make or break the value of a birth-injury case because it may point to oxygen deprivation, emergency delivery delays, and the kind of newborn harm that...

forceps delivery injury

The point that confuses people most is that forceps use is not, by itself, an injury. A forceps delivery injury is harm to the baby, the mother, or both caused by the...

I just found out the Ames ER sent my kid home too fast and now the insurer is using that against us

A project manager in Ames is getting jerked around after a child's facial dog bite because the quick ER discharge is being twisted into "not a serious injury."

ARTICLE by Hieu Nguyen

placental abruption

Defense lawyers and insurers may frame this as a sudden, unavoidable pregnancy emergency - something that "just happens" with no warning and no one to blame. That is only...

uterine rupture

What does it mean if the uterus "ruptures" during labor? It means the wall of the uterus tears, either partially or completely, during pregnancy or delivery. This is a medical...

brachial plexus injury

Like a bundle of electrical wires running from the neck into the shoulder and arm, the brachial plexus carries the signals that let a person move, feel, and use the arm and...

What trips people up most is that this is not just "the cord is around the baby's neck." A cord prolapse happens when the umbilical cord slips down through the cervix ahead of,...

shoulder dystocia

A delivery emergency where a baby's shoulder gets stuck behind the mother's pubic bone after the head is born. "Delivery emergency" matters because this is sudden,...

Missing Records After a Patient Lifting Back Injury

If you were hurt moving a patient in an understaffed Iowa hospital, the first fight is often over evidence that should have existed but somehow keeps "disappearing."

ARTICLE by Keith Haroldson

Defense lawyers and insurance companies often point to a baby's Apgar score as if it settles everything: a "normal" score means no harm, and a low score must have some cause...

Defense lawyers and insurance companies may try to make this sound rare, unavoidable, or disconnected from what happened in the hospital. They may frame it as a tragic newborn...

hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy

You may have seen this phrase in a NICU record, MRI report, discharge summary, or a call from a doctor after a difficult delivery. It means brain injury caused by too little...

Nursing home claim or borrowed-car insurance fight - which is smarter first?

A single parent in Cedar Rapids can't afford two slow injury fights at once, so this breaks down which claim usually moves faster and which one actually pays for the bigger damage.

ARTICLE by Angela Washington

Boss says keep quiet, the insurer says you were partly at fault, and your panic attacks are getting worse

A Des Moines commuter can still pursue serious emotional distress damages after witnessing a fatal crash, even if the insurer is trying to hang the whole thing on a minor traffic violation.

ARTICLE by Gary Johannsen

What happens if I see my own OB after a Des Moines crash?

What the insurance company does not want you to know is that seeing your own OB after a crash usually helps your claim, especially during Iowa winter wrecks where black ice,...

nonreassuring fetal status

You just got a letter that says your baby showed "nonreassuring fetal status" during labor. Plainly put, that means the baby was showing signs that raised concern about oxygen...

Rear-ended in Ames, then the hospital gave you the wrong drug - now what?

A teacher in Ames may be dealing with two separate fights after one wreck: proving the crash when the other driver lies, and untangling a hospital medication error that made everything worse.

ARTICLE by Pete Callahan

You may see this phrase in an insurance letter, a landlord dispute, or a call with an adjuster: "The owner had no prior knowledge the dog was dangerous," or "There was no...