Birth Injury

Overview

Childbirth is a memorable, delicate process no matter the circumstance. A new parent’s worst nightmare is for a preventable injury to occur during the process. Birth injuries can be extremely emotional and difficult to comprehend or even begin to deal with. Our team at Arizona Attorney Lawyers can protect your legal rights, allowing you to help your baby recover without worrying about securing evidence, witness statements, and meeting court deadlines.

Common Birth Injuries

There is a wide range of birth injuries that could impact your child, sometimes even for the rest of his or her life. Most could be prevented with proper care and forethought on the part of the doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. Sadly, negligence often gets in the way, and these injuries are allowed to happen, despite there being modern medicine and tools that could have prevented them. Some common birth injuries include:

  • Failure to do a timely Cesarean Section causing brain damage and cerebral palsy
  • Improper use of prostaglandin gel causing brain damage and cerebral palsy
  • Failure to properly treat pre-eclampsia causing brain damage and cerebral palsy
  • Shoulder dystocia causing brachial plexus and arm injury
  • Improper neonatal care causing brain damage and cerebral palsy

Birth injuries typically come down to negligence. Doctors must constantly look for signs of potential complications, both during the long months of pregnancy and during the birth itself. This includes taking precautions like running appropriate tests, speaking with the parents about potential dangers, and prescribing the correct treatment, such as medications or bed rest, if a condition becomes evident. 

Injury to Mothers 

Many of the complications that impact the baby can have an adverse effect on the mother as well. In fact, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 700 out of 100,000 women will die every year due to childbirth. In addition, thousands of women are left severely injured and in need of emergency surgery after childbirth.

If you and your family are in a situation where both mother and baby have suffered injuries during childbirth, you may be entitled to additional compensation. Arizona Attorney Lawyers will help you file the correct claims to recover the damages you have suffered. 

Birth Injury Compensation 

The settlements that can result from a clear instance of birth injury can be proportionally large. Depending on the parties involved and the degree of negligence, it is not unusual for parents to earn settlements of six figures and higher for significant birth trauma. Of course, there isn’t a parent on earth who wouldn’t trade that money for a healthy baby, but the settlement will help the financial burden of physical and emotional treatments. An experienced Arizona Attorney Lawyer can guide you through the steps of a birth injury lawsuit and help you and your family achieve maximum compensation.