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Caring for a child with a birth injury like paralysis or brain damage can strain a family’s finances. In addition to specialized medical care, you may face expenses like home remodeling for accessibility, additional schooling, and/or daily living assistance costs. However, if medical negligence is to blame, you can recover compensation through a birth injury lawsuit to pay for your child’s care.
If you or a loved one has experienced obstetrical malpractice or other medical negligence that resulted in a birth injury, we are here to help. Contact us today to speak with a knowledgeable Philadelphia or New Jersey birth injury lawyer. We offer free initial consultations and handle cases on a contingency fee basis, so you pay nothing unless you win your case.
How Do I Know if Medical Malpractice Caused My Child’s Birth Injury?
Not all complications during childbirth are grounds for a medical malpractice case or birth injury lawsuit. All medical procedures, including delivering a baby, carry a degree of uncertainty. When doctors and nurses follow proper procedures, this uncertainty is minimized. Nevertheless, in order to file a case for medical malpractice, you must be able to prove the following:
Negligence.
You must have proof that your doctor or nurse acted in a way that another qualified doctor would not under similar circumstances. For example, your obstetrician may neglect to monitor the baby’s heart rate during delivery, even though this is standard procedure.
Causation.
Even if medical negligence is present in your case, it must be a direct cause of the birth injury. For example, if your child was born with a genetic birth defect, you might not be able to collect compensation even if your doctor failed to monitor the fetal heart rate.
Harm.
Sometimes doctors make mistakes that cause no actual harm. For example, an obstetrician might not have monitored a baby’s heart rate, but the child was born perfectly healthy anyway. If so, you could not file a birth injury lawsuit because no injury resulted from the doctor’s negligence.
It is not always easy to determine whether a birth injury resulted from medical malpractice. In part, the reason is that medical professionals rarely inform patients when they make a mistake. Additionally, parents and doctors alike may not notice a birth injury until the child grows older and starts showing symptoms.
However, a birth injury lawyer from our law firm can alleviate your confusion and worry. We have experience investigating these kinds of cases, and we can get answers about what happened to you and your child. If we find evidence of medical malpractice, our attorneys can help get the compensation you need.
Contact Our Law Firm Today
If you or your child were injured before, during, or after birth from negligence, you should contact us right away. Our lawyers are experienced and here to help.
Call us today to schedule your free, confidential, no-obligation consultation. We handle all of our cases on a contingency fee basis. You won’t owe us anything unless you win your case.
We are located in downtown Philadelphia in the Center City district about a 5-minute walk from Rittenhouse Square.