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 Birth Trauma
Our law firm helps people who have suffered from a variety of medical injuries that may have happened around the time of birth.
These problems may cause life-long consequences through no fault of your own,
and sometimes represent a huge cost to you and your family. The effects of
cerebral palsy and other infant brain damage
and birth injuries are frequently life-altering for the baby and its parents.
Some of these birth injuries
include:
These birth injuries can arise
from oxygen deprivation to the brain before, during, or after delivery. Fetal or infant brain damage can be caused in many ways and for many different reasons. In
some cases, these occur as a result of improper medical care.
A few causes of permanent brain damage that may warrant compensation include:
- Negligent prenatal care, such
as failure to diagnose and treat risk factors before the child is born
- Negligent monitoring and failure to timely detect fetal distress (i.e. umbilical cord wrapped around the neck of a fetus causing
deprivation of oxygen to the
brain)
- Inducing labor contractions and additional stress on the fetus by administering pitocin or other drugs at a time when the fetus is already in distress
- Failure to timely perform a Cesarean Section
- Negligent handling of a breech delivery,
such excessive and unnecessary force or pressure during delivery
- Negligent treatment of placental abruption
- Health care provider malpractice
or negligence
Regardless of age, a person or
their family may be entitled to substantial compensation if they suffer from birth related
cerebral
palsy, mental retardation, epilepsy, autism,
Erb's palsy, or other brain injury.
Contact Us
If you or your family has been touched by the tragedy of a
child birth injury,
please call us, toll free, at 1-888-514-7555 for a free consultation or
contact us
by submitting our online form or by sending an email. We will do our best to help you or refer you to a birth injury attorney in your area who can.
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