{"id":157133,"date":"2026-07-16T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/16\/how-a-plaintiffs-team-went-against-conventional-wisdom-to-secure-18-2m-ob-gyn-med-mal-verdict\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:02:51","slug":"how-a-plaintiffs-team-went-against-conventional-wisdom-to-secure-18-2m-ob-gyn-med-mal-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/16\/how-a-plaintiffs-team-went-against-conventional-wisdom-to-secure-18-2m-ob-gyn-med-mal-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Plaintiff’s Team Went Against Conventional Wisdom to Secure $18.2M OB-GYN Med-Mal Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to plaintiff’s counsel Lisa Weinstein, a fetal vertex rotation is what’s colloquially called “a never maneuver,” something that should never be done in this kind of situation. The result was akin to “ripping a plug out of a wall,” Weinstein said. All five nerves connecting Lake’s left arm to his spine were torn in half, rendering it completely useless.<\/p>\n

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According to plaintiff’s counsel Lisa Weinstein, a fetal vertex rotation is what’s colloquially called “a never maneuver,” something that should never be done in this kind of situation. The result was akin to “ripping a plug out of a wall,” Weinstein said. All five nerves connecting Lake’s left arm to his spine were torn in half, rendering it completely useless.<\/p>\n

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According to plaintiff’s counsel Lisa Weinstein, a fetal vertex rotation is what’s colloquially called “a never maneuver,” something that should never be done in this kind of situation. The result was akin to “ripping a plug out of a wall,” Weinstein said. All five nerves connecting Lake’s left arm to his spine were torn in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/legal-news-Hc1iMJ.jpg?fit=768%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}