Birth Injury Attorneys Boone County, MO

Birth Injury Attorneys in Boone County, MO. After the anguish of a birth injury, you need an veteran lawyer you can trust and depend on to fight for your family in this terrible moment. Reach out to the birth injury attorneys of Burger Law in Boone County, MO right away at (314) 500-HURT to discuss your birth injury case for free and learn how we can help you receive the best possible compensation for your damages. Let our legal experts help your family move forward and be made whole with a complete financial recovery.

When your child experiences a birth injury at any time during or shortly after your pregnancy, it can be upsetting and agonizing. It can be especially infuriating when the birth injury is the result of negligent or improper medical care. If your child was harmed because a doctor did not give you the care you and your child deserved, Burger Law’s Boone County, MO team of birth injury lawyers will fight by your side to receive the financial compensation you and your family are entitled to to secure you and your loved ones’ future and begin on the road to recovery. Call our Boone County, MO birth injury attorneys now at (314) 500-HURT or contact us online to get your free case evaluation to see why hiring Burger Law is the first step to making you and your family whole again.

Birth Injuries in Boone County, MO

About six to eight out of 1,000 children born in the United States sustain a serious birth injury, which is about one in every 9,714 children and 28,000 births a year. Birth injuries are the cause of around two percent of neonatal deaths. Examples of such birth injuries are fractures or disorders that impact a child's development or cognition.

Many Boone County, MO attorneys may have experience in medical malpractice suits, but possibly not birth injury cases or with the exact birth injury you or your child sustained. Our Burger Law birth injury lawyers have seen every category of birth injury and know every type of birth injury case, and you can be confident that we will fight for you until you get a complete recovery.

Do I Need a Boone County, MO Birth Injury Lawyer?

If you believe that you or your child was harmed because of a doctor’s negligence or substandard care, then it is necessary to seek the help of seasoned birth injury attorneys in Boone County, MO. Raising a child in Boone County, MO already comes with a plethora of costs and stressors including food, clothing, school supplies and more. Add to that the prospect that your child could need months or years of medical care, rehabilitation or lifelong care, all due to a doctor’s negligence or careless actions. You ought to be wondering when your child will outgrow their jacket, not when they will outgrow their wheelchair because a doctor broke the rules.

The skilled Boone County, MO birth injury attorneys at Burger Law will figure out your complete damages, including the dollar sum of any likely future medical costs and other expenses and damages. Your committed birth injury attorney will fight until you are awarded a complete and just recovery.

Whatever your child’s circumstances, you want to spend your energy providing your child with nourishment and joy, not attempting to maneuver through a maze of complicated legal processes. When you call our birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT, we get started on your case immediately to get you great results. We handle all the documentation, communication and litigation so you can spend your energy on you and your child’s physical and emotional well-being. Our accomplished birth injury lawyers will deliver maximum compensation and get you and your family on the path to recovery. We charge no attorney's fees until we win your case.

Fortunately, many birth injuries are minor, and as babies are still developing and growing quickly, many injuries can heal pretty quickly. But whether the injury is minor or leads to lifelong disability, you are owed a full recovery for your medical bills, pain and suffering and other damages if the injury occurred because a doctor or medical institution in Boone County, MO disregarded the rules and did not give you and your newborn child the proper care they should have.

Types of Birth Injuries

Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that affects movement and the most common form of birth injury that affects about 4 in 1,000 children. There are three types of cerebral palsy:

1. Spasticity (stiff muscles)
2. Dyskinesia (uncontrollable movements)
3. Ataxia (poor balance and coordination)

Spasticity is the most common type and affects about 80% of people with cerebral palsy. The disorder can be mild – the child may walk awkwardly but not necessitate any special help – or more severe, and your child might need special equipment to walk or not be able to walk at all. Diagnosing and treating cerebral palsy involves closely following your child’s development, and that can include comprehensive medical appointments, expensive tests and special equipment to help your child walk or complete other basic tasks. The Boone County, MO-based birth injury lawyers at Burger Law insist that the at-fault party pays for all of your past, present and future medical damages accompanying your birth injury.

The medical world is still learning about the causes and possible risk factors of cerebral palsy. They do know it happens because of abnormal development of the brain while the brain is still developing, which can take place at any time during the pregnancy or birth. When it takes place during birth, many times is is because a doctor or nurse who was delivering the baby was negligent. Doctors need to properly monitor if a child is in distress or if it is receiving enough oxygen to its blood supply.

If your baby develops cerebral palsy because a doctor did not adequately monitor them, Burger Law’s Boone County, MO birth injury attorneys will tackle your case and make certain that you receive the full recovery you are owed. If you are upset that your child is not meeting motor skill benchmarks and suspect they might have cerebral palsy, it is vital to immediately seek out your doctor, who will evaluate your child and may send you to a specialist. You can also contact Missouri’s Early Intervention system for a free consultation if your child is less than three years old. If your child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy and you think a medical professional in Boone County, MO is to blame, call Burger Law right away at (314) 500-HURT for your complimentary case evaluation with a qualified Boone County, MO birth injury attorney, and start on the road to collecting a full recovery and safeguarding the future of you and your family.

Brachial Plexus Injuries and Erb’s Palsy

Brachial plexus injuries are a category of birth injury that results from damage to the brachial plexus – the group of nerves in the shoulder that controls movement and feeling in the upper extremities – during birth. It hinders the use of the arm and shoulder. This is caused by too much stretching around the shoulder, neck or head during birth, typically when the infant’s head is stretched to the side. This can occur because the baby was oversized, abnormal birthing presentations such as buttocks first or because a doctor was too rough with your baby during delivery or used improper birthing techniques. Erb’s Palsy is a category of brachial plexus injury where the upper extremities are weak and unable to move normally. Some severe cases involve the tearing of the nerves and can cause lifelong nerve damage. Luckily, in most cases, the baby will regain movement within a few months, and there are certain exercises you can practice with your child to help maintain movement while he or she heals. Whatever the extent of the injury or and the cost of the medical treatment, the Boone County, MO birth injury lawyers at Burger Law will make sure that you recover the best possible compensation and that the negligible party’s insurance company pays every dollar they owe.

Shoulder Dystocia

When the fetus's shoulder or shoulders cannot easily pass through the mother during birth, it results in a birth injury complication called shoulder dystocia. Most of the time, the infant is born without serious incident, and treatment may include just moving the mother’s and baby's position during delivery. However, failure to see or sufficiently treat shoulder dystocia can cause broken bones, lack of oxygen, Erb's palsy, or substantial loss of blood for the mother. If any of these conditions occurred during your child’s birth, reach out to our Boone County, MO birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT right away.

Cephalohematoma

This birth injury occurs when there is a collection of blood between a baby’s scalp and the skull as the result of damaged blood vessels during labor or delivery. You will notice swelling on your baby’s head, which usually dissipates in a few weeks. The condition is usually mild, nevertheless, there are a few atypical issues that can surface. Cephalohematoma can increase your infant’s risk of jaundice or anemia, and your baby may require a blood transfusion or other treatments.

Bruising, Lacerations, Soft Tissue Injuries or Fractures

Bruises and cuts are most often minor birth injuries that babies recover from rapidly. Still, they lead to extra medical costs and unmerited worry for the parents. Oftentimes a baby can be bruised or cut by complications during birth. For instance, if the baby is too large for the mother or the birth takes a long time, the baby spends too much time pushed up against the mother’s pelvis and can be hurt.

Clearly, broken bones are much more serious and can do much more harm. While a fracture during delivery can cause long-term or lifelong disability, normally they heal comparatively rapidy as children are rapidly and constantly developing new bone. Regardless, a broken bone during birth causes inconceivable pain for your baby and mental distress for you. The delivering doctor must notice the conditions of birth and take steps to protect the mother and child from harm. When the doctor neglects to treat you as the are obligated to, you could have a birth injury claim. Our birth injury attorneys will fight to get you the compensation you and your, loved one deserve while holding the negligent doctor accountable.

Occasionally there are steps a Boone County, MO doctor should have utilized but did not, and other times the doctor incorrectly used delivery tools or applied too much force during labor. In that instance, it is essential to contact our birth injury attorneys in Boone County, MO immediately to go through your options. Contact us today for a complimentary consultation.

Injury to the Mother

Occasionally, the mother or both the mother and child were harmed during delivery. The mother may experience heavy blood loss or other complications. In some cases, the mother is injured because of a doctor’s breach of care. For example, high blood pressure before or during labor can indicate preeclampsia, which can lead to seizures. If you had a seizure while giving birth after a doctor did not recognize your high blood pressure, you are entitled to damages and our birth injury attorneys will fight to ensure you are properly compensated.

Emotional Injury

Not all damages in birth injury cases are quantifiable. If you or your child were hurt because of medical malpractice, then you have experienced undeserved worry, stress, devastation, trauma and more. In the most devastating cases, you and your child may have to face the possibility of your child never being able to take part in common Boone County, MO childhood activities or having special medical requirements for the rest of their life. Getting the best possible compensation for your pain and suffering and mental anguish is an important step in making you whole again. In order to be awarded the full recovery you and your family deserve, you need veteran birth injury attorneys in Boone County, MO on your case. Burger Law’s team of birth injury lawyers can help.

It is important to be aware of the fact that that there are several possible causes of birth injuries that are not connected to medical negligence or a breach of care. For example, many Boone County, MO birth injuries occur during a delayed birth (labor that lasts over 18 hours). In some instances of delayed birth, a Cesarean section might have been the best method of treatment and in others, it may not have been. That depends on your unique labor. Each patient and each birth is different so is each individual case.

Our Boone County, MO birth injury attorney at Burger Law has seen every variety of birth injury suit and will help you decide if the standard of care you received is less than that which a capable doctor would have given you. Our network of Boone County, MO physicians and medical experts will help us understand the particulars of your claim, determine the value of your damages and prove the medical professional’s negligence in breaching their standard of care so that we can get you the best possible compensation to make you and your family whole.

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

Doctors, healthcare professionals and Boone County, MO medical institutions have what is called medical professional liability insurance, also called medical malpractice insurance. Like any Boone County, MO insurance company, these insurers will try to bully, mislead, and deceive you with complicated and misleading legal gibberish. The talented birth injury lawyers at Burger law will handle all communication and litigation for you and will fight back against bullies like resistant insurance companies to make sure they are held responsible and give you the maximum recovery you are owed. Medical malpractice cases in Boone County, MO can be hard, but our birth injury attorneys have over twenty years of experience fighting and winning birth injury cases and will acquire the evidence, proof, expert testimony and, eventually, the complete compensation you are entitled to.

In order to win a medical malpractice lawsuit, you must do three things:

1. Assign and demonstrate negligence. Not all instances of birth complications or birth injury are due to a doctor’s negligence. You must prove that the doctor breached the industry standard of care that a competent doctor in the same field would have given you. Burger Law’s network of Boone County, MO physicians and medical experts will help decide if there was negligence, and prove it in your case.
2. Get a letter of support. You will need to hire a Boone County, MO doctor or nurse in the same field—in this case, neonatal care—to write a letter supporting the fact that the care you were provided was negligent, improper, or substandard. As your birth injury attorneys, the Burger Law team will acquire your letter of support.
3. Prove that negligence caused the harm. Your child may develop cerebral palsy or may be born with a broken collarbone because of shoulder dystocia. The doctor may or may not be responsible, and you will have to prove that the doctor’s birthing techniques or inaction directly caused the harm. You must have a Burger Law Boone County, MO birth injury lawyer you trust to help demonstrate how the defendant's negligence caused a birth injury that has damaged you and your child.

Burger law’s dedicated team of Boone County, MO-based birth injury attorneys will be by your side throughout the entire process and take on all the legal work for you so you can focus your energy on the well-being of you and your child.

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Call Our St. Louis Birth Injury Attorneys Today

If your child experienced a birth injury, it is expected to feel a range of emotions: terrified, confused, infuriated and heartbroken. If the birth injury is incurred because of medical malpractice, Burger Law will stand by your side to fight for your complete recovery and put you on the road to recovery. Our tenacious Boone County, MO birth injury lawyers will take on your lawsuit and work tirelessly for you, from our first case review until we win your case. Let us help you protect you and your child’s future. Get a free case review today by calling us at (314) 500-HURT or by filling out this form.