NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - September 19, 2012) -  The New York birth injury lawyers at the law firm of Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald, whose Web site URL can be found at http://www.lawfitz.com, hereby announces to the public that the attorneys at the firm have reached a settlement agreement with a defendant in a New York birth injury lawsuit that was filed on behalf of a client who was injured prior to birth and allegedly suffered from meconium aspiration syndrome that resulted in several disabilities and injuries.

The New York birth injury attorneys at the law firm of Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald, a law firm dedicated to providing legal representation to families whose children have been harmed before, during or immediately after being born, hereby alert the public of a recent settlement agreement that was reached with a defendant in a New York birth injury lawsuit that was filed on behalf of an injured child. The case was settled in an amount of $1,000,000.00.

Specifically, the New York birth injury lawsuit at issue was filed in the New York County Supreme Court, and it was assigned case number A05164. The case concerned an alleged injury inflicted upon a child due to a failure to recognize the warning signs related to meconium aspiration syndrome, and the lawsuit alleged that the defendant, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, was liable for the damages incurred by the family.

The case centered on a child who was born on October 16, 2002 at the defendant hospital. The mother of the child had an uneventful pregnancy, and she was admitted to the hospital on October 15, 2002 according to court documents. The next morning at 9:15 a.m. led to an intern noticing that there was thick meconium present and a non-responsive fetal heart rate, and the child was born an hour later according to the statements and allegations contained in the court pleadings.

When the child reached six years of age, the plaintiff was ultimately diagnosed with several conditions that included deficits in expressive language, visual attention, auditory attention, visuospatial construction, verbal memory and lung damage, according to court documents. The pleadings also stated that the New York birth injury lawyers at Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald alleged that defendant hospital departed from good and accepted medical practice in the care of the infant plaintiff in failing to prevent meconium aspiration, failing to timely deliver the infant plaintiff via caesarian section in light of presence of thick meconium and non-reactive fetal heart rate, and failing to perform a laryngoscopy, and that these departures resulted in serious and permanent injuries to the infant plaintiff. The case was ultimately settled out of court.

About Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald is a law firm comprised of New York birth injury lawyers who have been representing clients harmed by the negligence of medical professionals overseeing births since the firm's inception in 1971. The attorneys at the firm handle New York medical malpractice cases, New York birth injury cases, New York cerebral palsy cases, New York personal injury cases, auto accident cases and other types of litigation matters that involve injuries inflicted upon individuals who need legal help.