What is Birth Trauma?
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Holding Healthcare Providers Accountable for Your Child’s Birth Injury
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Seeking Justice for Birth Injury Victims in Missouri & Nationwide
Our team of trial attorneys understands the physical, emotional, and financial toll that birth injuries can have on a family. We are dedicated to helping birth injury victims throughout the country recover total compensation. Our St. Louis birth injury attorneys have recovered nearly $2 billion in verdicts and settlements in the past year, including birth injury cases. They are here to help you determine if your child’s condition resulted from a doctor, hospital, or corporation’s negligence.
Understanding Birth Injuries: Causes & Impact
What is a Birth Injury?
A birth injury occurs when a newborn suffers harm before, during, or immediately after delivery due to preventable medical errors. While some complications are unavoidable, many birth injuries stem from negligence, improper procedure, or failure to act in time.
Types of Birth Injuries
Some of the most common types of birth injuries we handle include:
Common Causes of Birth Trauma
A birth trauma lawyer can help investigate when preventable mistakes caused harm. Some of the most frequent causes of birth-related injuries include:
- Improper use of forceps or vacuum devices
- Delayed C-section despite signs of emergency
- Misreading or ignoring fetal distress signals
- Oxygen deprivation during delivery
What are the Long-Term Effects of Birth Injuries?
The effects of a birth injury often last a lifetime. Children may require ongoing medical care, adaptive equipment, therapy, or special education. Families may face:
- Lifelong medical expenses and loss of income
- Emotional trauma and stress
- Physical and cognitive disabilities that affect quality of life
- Injuries leading to the loss of life
If the negligence of healthcare providers has badly hurt your baby, your family is entitled to substantial past and future economic and non-economic damages, and the providers must be held accountable.
How Our St. Louis Birth Trauma Lawyers Can Help
Birth injury cases are complex and require in-depth investigation to uncover all the evidence and identify the liable parties. Our dedicated attorneys have the experience, resources, and drive needed to help you move forward from this difficult and vulnerable time and recover the compensation you deserve for your child’s birth injuries, whether caused by prenatal errors, prolonged labor, NICU errors, or other forms of medical negligence.
Investigating Medical Negligence
Our experienced attorneys know how to hold healthcare providers accountable for their actions. We leave no stone unturned when investigating your case and will:
- Review thousands of pages of medical records
- Consult with nationally recognized medical experts
- Identify every party responsible, from physicians to hospital staff
- Build a compelling case for trial or settlement
Securing Compensation for Your Family
Our birth injury attorneys fight to ensure your family receives full and fair compensation for both economic and non-economic damages. In cases of birth trauma or birth injury, your family may be entitled to compensation for:
- Current and future medical care
- Pain and suffering
- Loss of earning capacity
- Special education or long-term care needs
- Emotional trauma and reduced quality of life
Common Questions About Birth Injury Claims
How Long Do I Have to Pursue a Birth Injury Case?
Each state has its own statute of limitations, and the timeline can be different for children. Some states don’t start the clock on a birth injury claim until the child reaches the age of majority, while in other states, the statute of limitations may expire long before the child’s eighteenth birthday. Failure to file a case within the statute of limitations may result in the child being barred from pursuing the matter, so it’s crucial to speak with an attorney as soon as possible to protect your child’s rights.
What Qualifies as a Birth Injury Lawsuit??
Any injury to a newborn caused by medical negligence may qualify for a birth injury lawsuit. This may include delayed intervention, failure to monitor, or improper delivery techniques.
Who Gets the Money From a Settlement or Jury Verdict?
Every case is different, but compensation awarded in a birth injury case is typically placed in a trust, ensuring the funds are used to support your child’s lifelong care and needs. Our office will work with you to ensure the trust is properly set up and protected for your child’s benefit.
Do I Need to Pay My Medical Bills When I Am Suing Them for a Birth Injury?
Families should continue submitting medical bills to their insurance provider. If uninsured, your attorney can guide you through available options.
Do I Have to Stop Seeing My Doctor?
Not necessarily. Every case is unique, and our attorneys will advise you on whether continued care with your provider is appropriate.
Why is Birth Injury Considered Medical Negligence?
When a healthcare provider fails to meet accepted medical standards by acting improperly or failing to act and causes harm to the patient, they may be held liable for medical negligence.
However, not all bad outcomes are due to medical negligence, which is why our attorneys thoroughly investigate. By gathering all medical records involved in your prenatal care, the labor and delivery, and your child’s records, we gain a full understanding of what happened, what went wrong, whose fault it is, and how it affects your baby.
How Do I Know if I Have a Birth Injury Case or Not?
Something that many parents say when they reach out about their child’s case is, “I don’t know if I’m doing the right thing. I don’t know if it is a good thing or not to call a lawyer.” If you think your child has been hurt due to negligence, contacting a lawyer is always the right move.
If your child has a case, we will work to get them the compensation they deserve. If there isn’t a case, we’ll give you an answer and an explanation of what happened to provide you with some peace of mind that you’ve done everything you can to advocate on behalf of your child.
How Will You Determine What My Child May Need in the Future?
When we look at the potential compensation for your child, we’re looking deeper than what their current injury is or what they’ve suffered in the past.
We work with specialized experts called life care planners who have the education and experience needed to develop plans to address your child’s future medical needs, medications, therapies, home modifications, and more. This individual will meet with you and your child, oftentimes in your home, to get a full scope of what the child’s needs are and what the child may need as he or she gets older.
After this evaluation, the life care planner takes all of the information and creates a multi-page report that we can submit at trial to show a jury exactly what your child will need in the future and the cost for that care and treatment.
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