Sentences with phrase «occurs as a result of medical negligence»

The reason that this condition is commonly a subject of medical malpractice cases is that the injury almost always occurs as a result of medical negligence.

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While some birth traumas occur naturally as a result of the physical pressures on a fetus from the mother's contractions and the fetus's passage through the birth canal, other childbirth injuries are caused by the negligence of medical practitioners during a mother's pregnancy or the labor and delivery stages of childbirth.

In Kentucky, medical malpractice occurs when a patient in injured as the result of negligence or an unacceptable standard of care by a health care professional.

Brachial plexus palsy injuries may also occur as a result of medical malpractice during the labor and delivery stages of a child's birth, even in the absence of medical negligence during a mother's pregnancy.

Though a child's asphyxia injuries may be caused by something other than medical negligence or malpractice, such injuries may also occur as a result of inadequate medical care during the mother's pregnancy or medical negligence during the labor and delivery stages of childbirth or after childbirth.