Local Law Firms Home > Medical Malpractice Overview > Cerebral / Erb's Palsy > Nerve Damage > Higher Birth-Weight Erb’s palsy, a condition that is the result of a nerve injury to the brachial plexus, affects thousands of newborn children every year. In fact, there are nearly five thousand children a year who suffer from Erb’s palsy and 90 percent of those cases were caused by the newborn suffering trauma to the shoulders during the delivery period. Did you know? |