Verdicts and Settlements
$10 Million (5.365 Million)
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$4.2 Million ($1.625 Million)
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$3.2 Million ($1.875 Million)
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$2.65 Million
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$1.485 Million
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$1.1 Million
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$1 Million ($550,000)
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Awards and Memberships
Doulas: Who Are They, and What Do They Do?
/0 Comments/in Pregnancy /by Reiter & Walsh, P.C.New York governor Andrew Cuomo gained attention in April for driving initiatives to combat the horrific maternal mortality rate among black women in his state. A key element of this task force was for Medicaid to cover the use of doulas, or trained birth coaches. What is a doula? Doulas are professional birth coaches who…
Bulging Fontanelle
/0 Comments/in Birth Injury /by rstokesWhat is a bulging fontanelle? The human skull is made of many bones, which join together to protect the brain. The lines at which they fuse are called sutures. When a baby is born, these sutures are not yet all firmly joined together. This allows the head to be a bit more flexible as it…
Involuntary Sterilization of Disabled Americans: An Historical Overview
/0 Comments/in Disability /by rstokesThousands of Americans with disabilities have undergone sterilization procedures without providing informed consent. Beginning in the early 1900s, supporters of the eugenics movement sought to sterilize those with cognitive impairments in order to “cleanse” the human gene pool of “undesirable” traits. This was sanctioned by many state governments, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court…
How SisterFriends Is Taking On Detroit’s Maternal-Infant Mortality Rate
/0 Comments/in Pregnancy /by Reiter & Walsh, P.C.A recent Detroit Free Press article spoke of the horrifyingly high infant mortality rate among babies born in Detroit. According to the piece, 13 out of every 1,000 babies born in Detroit die before their first birthday. Fortunately, this rate has dropped since the founding of one Detroit organization called SisterFriends Detroit. SisterFriends Detroit is…
Timeline of Disability Rights in the U.S.
/0 Comments/in Disability /by David KrankerLearn about some major changes to disability rights in the United States. Please note that this list is FAR from complete; rather, it is just meant to give our readers a brief overview of legislative changes that have impacted people with disabilities. If you think we left out an especially important event, please let us…