Skelly-Hand v. Lizardi

Cross appeals from an order and judgment of the Supreme Court (Demarest, J.), entered November 19, 2012 in St. Lawrence County, upon, among other things, a verdict rendered in favor of plaintiffs.

Plaintiffs are the parents of Rachel Elizabeth Hand (hereinafter the child) who was delivered in 1996 by defendant, an obstetrician-gynecologist. A complication known as shoulder dystocia, in which the child’s shoulder becomes lodged against the mother’s pubic bone, occurred during the delivery. The child was born with an injury to her brachial plexus — a group of nerves running from the neck into…