$1.8 Million Settlement in Late Performance of a Cesarean Section, Birth Injury

Lavanya Vennapureddy was admitted to a hospital for a planned induction of labor. An internal monitor was placed on the baby’s scalp by the treating medical providers. The doctors also performed maneuvers to increase fetal perfusion due to the fetal rate monitor revealing continuing stress and decelerations.

However, these measures did not reduce the fetal heart rate. Approximately three hours later, the fetal heart rate allegedly went from tachycardia to bradycardia. Vennapureddy’s treating gynecologist, who performed the emergency cesarean section, was notified.

Vennapureddy’s daughter was born in a significantly depressed condition and was diagnosed as having suffered hypoxic-ischemic brain damage. She was transferred to a children’s hospital but died a few days later.

Vennapureddy and her husband filed a lawsuit claiming wrongful death and survival against the gynecologist, a medical practice, the hospital and others. Vennapureddy and her husband asserted that the defendants chose not to perform an earlier delivery considering the fetal distress.

The parties settled before trial for $1.8 million.

The attorney handling this tragic case was James E. Beasley Jr.

Gade v. Shah-Parikh, No. 2020-13491 (Pa. Ct. Com. Pl. Montgomery Cnty.).

Kreisman Law Offices has been handling birth injury lawsuits, birth trauma injury lawsuits and wrongful death cases for individuals, families and loved ones who have been harmed, injured or died as a result of the carelessness or negligence of a medical provider for more than 49 years in and around Chicago, Cook County and its surrounding areas, including Bolingbrook, Elgin, Aurora, North Barrington, Inverness, Glenview, Riverside, Morton Grove, Oak Lawn, Chicago (Rogers Park, Back of the Yards, Pilsen, Chinatown, Greek Town, Wrigleyville, North Lawndale, Andersonville), Deerfield, Orland Park and Arlington Heights, Ill.

Robert D. Kreisman has been an active member of the Illinois and Missouri bars since 1976.