CohenMalad, LLP’s Birth Injury Legal Team Will Fight For Justice
Birth injuries refer to physical harm sustained by a baby during the process of labor and delivery. These injuries can range from minor issues, such as bruising, to severe complications like hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), cerebral palsy, brachial plexus injury, brain damage, or death.
For families facing these difficulties, legal recourse and advocacy play crucial roles in addressing injustices and ensuring that proper care is available.
If your family has experienced a birth injury, you deserve justice and a fair settlement. Our experienced birth injury attorneys will vigorously defend and protect families that have experienced serious birth injuries. We also help advocate for health care reform to better protect those most vulnerable to harm.
What are Birth Injuries?
Birth injury refer to physical harm sustained by a baby during the process of labor and delivery. These injuries can range from minor issues, such as bruising, to severe complications like cerebral palsy, brachial plexus injury, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), brain damage, or death.
Birth injuries often arise from complications during labor, including improper use of delivery instruments, neglect of medical standards, or mismanagement of the birth process. Examples include:
- Ignoring complaints from mother or not taking them seriously
- Ignoring concerning fetal heart monitor readings
- Ignoring concerning vital signs
- Failing to timely attempt C-section
- System failures, such as understaffing/overwork, or poor communication between doctors, nurses, midwifes and other providers
- Failing to utilize available tools/testing (e.g., CT scans, ultrasound, scalp electrode fetal monitoring, etc.)
- Overuse of Pitocin or similar medications to induce or accelerate labor
- Technological failures
- Medical device failures
Seeking Justice After a Birth Injury
CohenMalad LLP has a dedicated medical malpractice group with attorneys and staff who are highly experienced at handling birth injury cases. Legal action and advocacy efforts are needed to affect change. The court system can provide recourse to ensure that families affected by birth injuries are given the support they need. Lawsuits may focus on proving negligence and seeking damages for the harm caused by potential medical malpractice.
Pursuing these cases can help highlight the systemic issue of birth injuries and push for improved standards and practices in maternal healthcare. Advocacy for improved access to maternal care in maternity deserts is equally crucial. By raising awareness and pushing for policy changes, advocates can work to expand healthcare facilities, increase funding for rural healthcare services, and support telemedicine initiatives.
Experienced, Trusted Birth Injury Lawyers For Your Family
When our attorneys represent you in a birth injury claim, we will advocate as strongly for you as we would for a member of our own family. We have earned a reputation for being tough in birth injury matters. For example, our team recently represented parents whose infant died as a result of a hospital staff failing to timely address fetal heart tracings and vital signs, which suggested the baby was in critical trouble.
Another former CohenMalad, LLP client is an expectant mother who made making several trips to the hospital during her pregnancy, complaining of immense and debilitating pain. Hospital staff did not take the woman’s pain and suffering seriously despite numerous complaints. Five months later, it was finally discovered that the woman had appendicitis, which, if properly identified when she complained during those numerous hospital visits, could have been handled properly and safely.
We negotiate when appropriate, and litigate when necessary, and we have extensive resources available to properly prepare your case and take it to trial.
For a free, confidential discussion of your family’s rights and potential case, contact our birth injury malpractice team now or call 317.636-6481.
