Dedicated Birth Injury Law Services That Put Your Family First
When medical mistakes during birth leave your child with devastating consequences, you need birth injury lawyers who understand the intricacies of medical malpractice law and will stand up for your family’s rights every step of the way.
Give us a call at (833) 372-3529 today for a free consultation, and let us get to work on your case right away!
Why You Need an Expert Birth Injury Lawyer
Birth injuries are mind-bogglingly complex, and they need attorneys who really know their stuff – people with a deep understanding of obstetric care, neonatal medicine, and the often-complicated laws governing healthcare provider accountability. When your child is hurt during the birthing process, the stakes are sky-high, and these cases can involve lifelong disabilities that require constant medical care and support.
The Sad Reality
In Pennsylvania, 7 out of every 1,000 births result in birth injuries – and many of those cases are preventable if only proper medical intervention and monitoring had been in place during the delivery process.
The Medical Maze
You need expert knowledge to make sense of medical records, fetal monitoring, and delivery protocols – and that’s precisely what you get with a top-notch birth injury lawyer. Medical professionals have to follow established standards of care during labor and delivery – and when they don’t, families deserve compensation for the tragic consequences.
The Insurance Companies Will Push Back
Healthcare providers and hospitals have all the resources and lawyers they need to fight birth injury claims. They’ll try to minimise compensation or deny responsibility altogether – which is exactly why families need seasoned birth injury lawyers on their side to protect their rights.
Timing Is Everything
Don’t delay in getting in touch with a Pennsylvania birth injury lawyer – because time is of the essence. The statute of limitations will have you chasing a deadline, and you need a trusted lawyer to help you preserve crucial medical evidence before it disappears.
Proper representation means your family gets the maximum compensation for medical expenses, future care needs, physical therapy, and the pain and suffering caused by medical errors during birth.
Our Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Claims
Our approach to medical malpractice claims is thorough and meticulous, starting with a detailed examination of medical records and hospital protocols during labor and delivery. We work with medical experts to take a close look at every single detail of your child’s birth – from fetal monitoring strips to delivery decisions to the actions of all the medical pros involved in your care.
Having expert medical testimony on your side is indispensable in establishing that healthcare providers deviated from accepted medical practices and directly contributed to your child’s injuries. Our team of obstetricians, pediatricians, and neurologists will provide a meticulous analysis of how medical providers fell short – and then we’ll use that to build a strong case against the medical professionals who dropped the ball.
We take a hard look at fetal monitoring strips and delivery decisions that led to injury, asking – did medical providers respond properly to signs of fetal distress or emergency conditions? Our team of experienced lawyers will pursue compensation against hospitals, doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals who failed to give your family the medical care they deserved during the birthing process.
Cerebral Palsy and HIE Cases
Representing cases of cerebral palsy and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy requires a deep understanding of how oxygen deprivation affects a baby’s brain during birth – and that’s not a straightforward job. These severe birth injuries often result from medical mistakes such as failing to perform timely emergency cesarean sections, improperly using delivery tools, or failing to properly monitor during labor.
Our team of experts will piece together the sequence of events that led to the brain injury, demonstrating how specific medical errors led to reduced blood flow and oxygen deprivation that resulted in lifelong brain damage. We review fetal heart monitoring, maternal vital signs, and delivery room decisions to establish causation.
Life care planning to calculate future medical expenses, therapy, and equipment needs is an essential part of making sure families receive adequate compensation. Children with cerebral palsy or brain injury require extensive ongoing medical care, highly specialised equipment, and educational support throughout their lives.
We fight to ensure your child receives the right educational support and developmental services and work to help them achieve the best possible outcome despite the challenges caused by birth injuries.
The Top 10 Birth Injuries We Handle
- Cerebral Palsy: Movement and posture disorders affecting one in 345 children born annually – often caused by oxygen deprivation during birth when medical professionals fail to respond properly to signs of fetal distress or emergency conditions.
- Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE): Brain damage from oxygen deprivation during birth, usually resulting from umbilical cord injuries, prolapsed umbilical cord, or failing to perform an emergency cesarean section when medically indicated by fetal monitoring.
- Erb’s Palsy: Brachial plexus nerve damage affecting arm movement and sensation – usually caused during vaginal birth when excessive force is applied to remove the baby’s shoulders stuck behind the mother’s pelvis during shoulder dystocia.
- Shoulder Dystocia: A birth complication where the baby’s shoulders become stuck during delivery, requiring immediate medical intervention to prevent permanent injury to the brachial plexus nerves and potential oxygen deprivation to the baby.
- Facial Nerve Palsy: Facial muscle weakness from forceps or vacuum extraction injuries – the kind of thing that can happen when doctors and midwives sneeze up a storm during delivery because they’re using the wrong tools or laying in too much force. Often, it’s a sign that medical professionals just aren’t following the right protocols.
- Bone Fractures: These can occur when medical providers are using too much force during delivery, so much so that they end up breaking the baby’s clavicle, skull, or some other bone. You’d think they’d know better, but it happens when doctors and nurses are in a hurry or just plain careless in their decisions to deliver.
- Spinal Cord Injuries: In some cases, those severe spinal cord injuries that result in permanent paralysis can be the result of doctors and nurses applying too much force while trying to deliver the baby. When medical professionals get it wrong, babies can end up with lifelong medical issues – all due to the actions of medical staff.
- Caput Succedaneum: Births involving swelling on the scalp, caused by prolonged labor or vacuum extraction, which shows that something went wrong with monitoring labor or applying vacuum tools by healthcare providers, and this is a problem we see all the time in births gone wrong.
- Intracranial Hemorrhage: Bleeding in the brain that can result from delivery trauma or oxygen deprivation, and sadly, for many families, it’s preventable through regular monitoring during labor and stepping in when the family is getting into trouble and in need of emergency delivery.
- Kernicterus: This is a serious condition that results from severe jaundice and brain damage in newborns, which comes about when doctors or nurses simply fail to check the bilirubin levels and provide the right medication to stop the jaundice, all of which is identified through clear medical negligence.
Our Birth Injury Legal Process
Step 1: Free Case Evaluation
Our first step in tackling your birth injury case is a detailed review of your medical records and those labor and delivery reports, alongside any relevant diagnostic tests that relate to your child’s birth and long-term health. We review everything from pregnancy care to birth and post-birth medical care and identify any potential negligence by your healthcare providers.
Looking at fetal monitoring strips and the decisions that were made about your delivery by our team of medical experts gives us a clear view of how these medical professionals responded to signs of fetal distress or any emergency conditions during the birth process. We provide an honest evaluation of your case and let you know whether or not you have a viable birth injury claim – again with no upfront costs to you – with the only requirement being a simple phone call to us now to schedule your consultation and get the ball rolling on protecting your family’s rights.
Step 2: Medical Expert Investigation
Getting the opinions of board-certified obstetricians, pediatricians, and neurologists is key to understanding the full extent of medical care provided during your pregnancy, labor, and delivery. We review all of your medical records with these experts and obtain their detailed opinions on whether your healthcare providers met the standard of care.
Reviewing medical standard of care violations in the prenatal, labor, and delivery phases helps us to identify specific times when medical staff failed to follow established protocols or respond appropriately to medical changes affecting you and your baby – and documenting all of these preventable errors gives us the evidence we need to pursue compensation against those who caused your child’s injury.
Step 3: Legal Filing and Discovery
Getting the paperwork in order for a medical malpractice lawsuit against the healthcare providers who made mistakes and caused harm to your child – this is a must – as the statute of limitations in Pennsylvania has to be respected if you’re going to be able to pursue a birth injury case. In fact, in many cases, you have up until your child is 20 years old to make a claim.
Getting all of the information we need to build a strong case against the healthcare providers who are responsible involves gathering testimony from each of these medical professionals. This involves getting them to sit down and answer questions under oath, which we can then use as part of your case to seek compensation.
Step 4: Settlement Negotiation or Trial
When it comes to getting the maximum amount of compensation for your family, we’re not going to back down – we’ll do whatever it takes to get you the money your child deserves. This means being willing to negotiate aggressively with insurance companies to ensure that you get the right level of compensation for the long-term care your child will require.
Of course, if a fair settlement can’t be reached, our team of experienced lawyers is always fully prepared to take it to trial – always with the goal of securing multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts for families like yours. Throughout the entire process, we keep you in the loop, keeping you updated with all the latest on your case, and we are always happy to answer any questions you might have.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long do I have to file a birth injury lawsuit in Pennsylvania?
Well the good news is that in Pennsylvania, you have up to 20 years to file a birth injury claim, giving you plenty of time to figure out what happened to your child during birth and what caused the problems they’re experiencing now – but it can get complicated – sometimes, the statute of limitations can be extended if the injury wasn’t immediately apparent, but that really depends on the facts of your case. Early consultation with a Harrisburg Birth Injury Lawyer is pretty much the key to making sure that all the evidence and witness statements don’t disappear over time. Medical records can get tossed, doctors can move on to new jobs, and crucial evidence can just walk out the door if you don’t get moving on getting a lawyer as soon as possible.
Give us a call right now at (833) 372-3529 and we’ll get your family’s rights straightened out and make sure you have all the right people in place to start fighting for the compensation you need to take care of your birth injury case while we sort out the evidence and start building a strong case against those who were supposed to help your kid.
What kind of compensation can we get for a birth injury?
The kind of compensation you might get from a birth injury claim can include all the medical expenses you’ve already paid out, are still paying, and will continue to pay in the future for stuff like cerebral palsy, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and other really serious birth injuries that just keep on needing high levels of care for the rest of the kid’s life.
Life care planning helps you make sure you’ve got all the therapy, medical equipment, meds, and special care that your kid needs, and that you get the compensation for all the medical bills that come with it – that includes things like physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, specialized equipment, home renovations, and educational support services.
And then there’s lost earnings and reduced earning capacity, because a birth injury can ruin a kid’s ability to grow up and get a job and earn a living, so you’ve got to get compensated for that as well. That’s a big financial hit, and we’re talking about the whole lifetime of the kid here.
Pain & suffering, and emotional distress for the kid and their parents, that’s a whole other part of the compensation package, too. That’s all about the non-monetary stuff – the physical pain, emotional trauma, and just generally reduced quality of life that the kid and their family go through.
Do you work on a contingency fee basis?
Yeah, we work on a contingency fee basis, which means you only pay us if we win your case either through settlement or a trial verdict. So you never pay any upfront fees or costs, and we cover all the expenses of investigating and litigating the case. That way, you can get a top-notch birth injury lawyer on your side without having to worry about the cost.
We advance all the costs, including expert fees, court costs, and investigation expenses, so you don’t have to worry about finding the cash to pursue your claim.
How does it all work then?
So we’ll take care of the whole legal side of things while you focus on your kid’s care and medical needs. We’ll work with medical experts, dig through medical records, deal with insurance companies, and do all the rest of the heavy lifting, so you can just take care of your kid.
And don’t worry about the consultation. It is free and there is no obligation to take things any further. It is a chance to get some straight talk about your options and what kind of compensation you might be able to get without ever having to put down a single dollar.
Get In Touch With Our Birth Injury Legal Team
Let’s Get Started Today
Time is of the essence in birth injury cases because there is a time limit for making your claim. You need to get the evidence in place as soon as possible. This means obtaining medical records, witness testimony, and physical evidence from your child’s birth and subsequent treatment before it all disappears.
Our team of birth injury lawyers is available 24/7 to talk through your case and give you some guidance on protecting your family’s rights. We know how critical it is to get moving on this as fast as possible.
We represent families all over Pennsylvania, including in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg, and we handle all sorts of birth injury cases – from medical malpractice during pregnancy, labor, and delivery.
Give us a call at (833) 372-3529 for a free, confidential consultation with a Pennsylvania birth injury lawyer who’ll go over your case, explain your options, and tell you what kind of compensation you might be able to get.
No upfront costs, no fees unless we win your case. We cover all the expenses of investigating and litigating your birth injury lawsuit, so you can focus on your kid and let us handle the rest.