A North Carolina doctor and hospital were found to have been negligent during the birth of a boy who suffered permanent damage to his shoulder.
Laurel Browne gave birth to her 6-year-old son, Naqah Lake, on Sept. 17, 2019, at the WakeMed hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina, but the birth did not go as planned. According to a lawsuit filed in Wake County in 2022 that was obtained by The Charlotte Observer, Dr. Tara Brenner was trying to deliver Naqah, but his shoulder got stuck behind Browne’s pelvis. After Brenner rotated Naqah’s head, he stopped breathing before he could be completely delivered. The maneuver, according to Lisa Weinstein of the Grant & Eisenhofer law firm, which represented Browne and Naqah, caused “all five nerves in his left brachial plexus” to be “ripped from his spinal cord at birth.”
After spending nine days in the NICU, Naqah’s left arm remained limp. He was diagnosed with a severe nerve injury and underwent surgery when he was 6 months old…