Midwife faulted in birth injury case

A Maine midwife lost her second large medical malpractice verdict recently when a jury awarded $3 million for a girl who was born severely mentally retarded as a result of a botched delivery. The girl, Hannah Tilton, who is now 10 years old, is confined to a wheelchair, must use a feeding tube and is blind and unable to speak. The birth injury occurred at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.

Settlement in birth injury case

Injuries during the birthing process appear all too common. In a recent case in Ohio, expectant mother Crystal Rinker was admitted to Mercy Medical Center in Canton on March 13, 2008 and given the drug Pitocin to induce labor. After not delivering in the evening, she was adminsitered more of the drug the next morning by delivery nurses. The drugs caused hyperstimulation in Rinker's uterus,