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Burn Injury Lawyer

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The skin is a complex organ covering most of the surface of the human body. Serious damage to the skin through “road burn” (often occurring in motorcycle accidents), thermal burns (as when a person is exposed to fire) or chemical burns (resulting from chemical spills — including Freon or gasoline leaking from a wrecked car onto passengers trapped in the car) can lead to complications such as the following:

A long healing period during which time the victim may be unable to work.

Risk of infection.

Pain — sometimes leading to a physical dependence on painkillers.

Disfigurement and/or scarring — and possibly, plastic surgery recommended down the road.

Depression and other psychological problems.

Potentially, psycho-social problems caused by isolation and awkwardness due to a dramatically changed appearance.

Whether a victim suffers a burn in an auto accident or an industrial accident, it is important to seek the highest quality medical treatment available from the start. If the victim does not have health insurance, a personal injury lawyer is a valuable source of help in this regard. At our personal injury law office, we regularly communicate with health care providers, sometimes persuading them to give health care to our clients while a personal injury claim is in the works.

Medical Malpractice Attorney

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Since the beginnings of our law firm, medical malpractice has been a core practice area. Medical malpractice is a challenging endeavor for any lawyer. It is both intellectually challenging and fraught with practical and legal challenges.

Some of the best attorneys in our profession work as defense lawyers in medical malpractice cases. Hospitals and health care providers work vigorously to contain exorbitant financial losses that can result from a successful medical malpractice claim or jury verdict in a case that goes to trial.

For this reason, anyone considering filing a medical malpractice claim is well advised to seek out an experienced lawyer to pursue their claim. Look for a law firm that is well-equipped for the job of finding evidence of negligence and showing direct cause and effect between that negligence and the medical injury.

A successful claim or lawsuit often requires great expense — in particular, the expense of hiring medical experts to give reliable opinions. At our firm, we enjoy working closely with expert physicians from throughout the state of Texas. They teach us about medicine and the human body, while together we explore theories of liability in each case.

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.