Hon. Stuart A. Nudelman, (Ret.), senior mediator and arbitrator at ADR Systems, settled a $35 million birth injury case involving a child born with catastrophic brain injuries at an Illinois hospital.

“This was a very difficult, emotionally-charged case with great attorneys representing both sides who worked very hard to resolve this tragic situation,” Judge Nudelman said.

The parents of the child filed a lawsuit alleging that a fetal heart monitor showed their daughter’s heart rate decelerating before birth, which resulted in decreased brain function. The parents alleged their daughter would have normal brain function had she been delivered sooner.

After the child was born, there was no pediatric physician in the room as required by hospital protocol, and the pediatric resuscitation team was not notified until three minutes after her birth. She was intubated 12 minutes later. The settlement order said these delays resulted in a severe brain injury which caused delayed milestones, limited speech and cognitive injury.

“The key to this mediation was for the parties, through me, to continue the conversation,” Judge Nudelman said. “It went late, stalled and at some points even stopped, but the dialogue continued to eventually reach a settlement that satisfied all the parties involved.”

Judge Nudelman worked diligently to help the family members obtain some closure by reaching a settlement in this birth injury case.

Judge Nudelman is a senior mediator and arbitrator at ADR Systems. He is highly experienced in commercial, personal injury and professional malpractice matters, among many others. He has resolved more than 2,000 mediations and arbitrations throughout the United States in the past eight years.

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