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Birth Injury Attorney

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Few “mistakes” in life are as heart-breaking to contemplate as a preventable birth injury. Sometimes an obstetric staff’s failure to accurately monitor a fetus’s well-being during labor and delivery can result in irreversible brain injury (leading to cerebral palsy) or brachial plexus injury (leading to permanent loss of function in a shoulder and/or arm).

Birth injury can also be the result of defective prenatal care. This may be the case when an OB/GYN did not make adequate plans to mitigate a risky condition such as gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, or preeclampsia. Pregnant mothers who are at risk with conditions such as these are often recommended to have C-sections to reduce the risk of birth injury as a result of any such condition.

Advocating for the Rights of Infants With Brain Damage

Does your baby struggle with the results of cerebral palsy because your health care providers did not detect fetal distress or communicate these findings properly with the obstetrician? Did your child suffer from a hypoxic brain injury during labor, which went undetected for too long despite the clear evidence on the fetal monitor strip?

Or was your baby’s jaundice after birth undetected and untreated — resulting in brain damage?

As you can see, the time frame of a “birth injury” may encompass a wide time frame beginning with the initiation of prenatal care and ending with the dismissal of the newborn baby from the care of the OB/GYN.

Some parents are less interested in money than in answers after their baby is born with a birth injury. That is a reasonable expectation — but if your child is seriously injured, he or she deserves the best chance at obtaining the therapy and special education to help him or her overcome the disability as much as possible. This means making a claim for financial compensation while also seeking answers to important questions.

Cerebral Palsy Lawyers

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Experienced Legal Representation for Birth Injury Victims

Preventable mistakes that result in a birth injury can be catastrophic and heartbreaking. When a baby does not get enough oxygen (hypoxia) during labor and delivery, he or she is at risk for developing cerebral palsy. This may result in a wide range of cognitive and/or physical abnormalities that can cause moderate to severe deficits. At our law firm, our cerebral palsy attorneys work to hold medical professionals accountable for negligent acts.

If your child suffers from cerebral palsy due to malpractice during the labor and delivery process, you may be entitled to compensation. Contact our  personal injury lawyers .

Helping You Seek Full and Fair Compensation

A hypoxic birth injury that results in cerebral palsy can leave a child bedridden and may require a lifetime of medical care. In other cases, a child may only experience a minor lack of motor control and other deficits. In any case, an early diagnosis and intervention is critical. Getting early treatment may go a long way toward improving your child’s quality of life.

Our brain injury attorneys will work hard to help you seek the full and fair compensation you need for your child’s injuries. We will work closely with neonatology experts, life-care planners and economists to paint a full picture of your child’s damages. The lawyers at our firm understand how medical malpractice cases work. We will use all of our skills and knowledge to help you get the compensation you need in order to move forward with your life.

Cancer Misdiagnosis Lawyers

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When we entrust our well-being to our primary care physician or to specialists, such as an oncologist, we rightly expect our doctors to exercise the accepted standard of care, including the correct, timely diagnoses of diseases such as cancer that a physician has the ability to deliver. How shocking, then, when a patient learns that he or she has an advanced stage of cancer, despite previous complaints of symptoms which were disregarded during doctors’ visits? At our firm, our cancer misdiagnosis attorneys help injured victims seek compensation.

If you or a loved one has suffered due to a misdiagnosis or a failure to diagnose, it is important to seek legal representation. Contact our  personal injury lawyers to schedule an initial consultation to discuss your situation.

How Is Cancer Misdiagnosed or Undiagnosed?

It can be baffling to try and understand how medical professionals can make such a crucial error as a failed or delayed diagnosis of cancer. Our medical malpractice attorneys will launch a thorough investigation into what went wrong. We will see if there is evidence of one or more of the following causes:

Your doctor ignored your complaints, although your symptoms closely matched well-known symptoms of that type of cancer.

A diagnostic laboratory made a mistake. Perhaps your slide was switched with another person’s slide — or the pathologist misread your slide.

A radiologist may have failed to detect early stage lung cancer when studying your chest X-ray.

The nursing home where your elderly parent was a resident failed to provide timely physicals as promised.

Although cancer has often been considered a fatal disease, medical research has developed new therapies and diagnostic procedures. Some cancers respond to medication, such as chemotherapy, and radiation treatments. The earlier they are correctly diagnosed, the more likely it is that an oncologist will recommend the course of treatment most likely to result in survival. When medical malpractice is committed by failing to diagnose, turn to the lawyers at our firm who can help you seek full and fair compensation.