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Birth Injury Attorneys California, MO
Birth Injury Attorneys in California, MO. After the trauma of a birth injury, you need an seasoned lawyer you can trust and count on to fight for your family in this difficult time. Get in touch with the birth injury attorneys of Burger Law in California, MO right away at (314) 500-HURT to discuss your birth injury case for free and discover what we will do to help you receive the best possible compensation for your or your child's injuries. Let our legal experts help your family move forward and be made whole with a complete financial recovery.
When your child suffers a birth injury before, during or after delivery, it can be traumatizing and heartbreaking. It can be particularly enraging when the birth injury happened because of negligent or incorrect medical care. If your child has been hurt because of a doctor’s substandard care, Burger Law’s California, MO team of birth injury lawyers will fight by your side to receive the financial recovery you and your family deserve to protect you and your loved ones’ future and start on the path to recovery. Call our California, 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 California, MO
About six to eight out of 1,000 children born in the United States suffer a serious birth injury, which makes up about one in every 9,714 children and 28,000 babies a year. Birth injuries are responsible for around two percent of neonatal deaths. Examples of such birth injuries are fractures or disorders that have an effect on a child's development or cognitive abilities.
Many California, 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 experience with every variety of birth injury and know every type of birth injury case, and you can be certain that we will fight on your behalf until you get the best possible.
Do I Need a California, MO Birth Injury Lawyer?
If you suspect that you or your child was harmed because of a doctor’s negligence or breach of care, then it is imperative to seek the help of veteran birth injury attorneys in California, MO. Having a child in California, MO already comes with a mountain of expenses and concerns including food, clothing, school supplies and more. Add to that the possibility that your child could need months or years of medical treatment, rehabilitation or lifelong care, all owing to a doctor’s negligence or careless actions. You ought to be wondering when your child will need new jacket, not when they will outgrow their wheelchair because a doctor did not follow the rules.
The accomplished California, MO birth injury attorneys at Burger Law will figure out your complete damages, including the dollar sum of any possible future medical costs and other expenses and damages. Your committed birth injury attorney will fight until you receive a complete and fair recovery.
Whatever your child’s condition, you want to concentrating on giving your child with nourishment and happiness, not trying to maneuver through a maze of convoluted legal procedures. When you call our birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT, we get started on your case right away to deliver great results. We oversee all the documentation, communication and litigation so you can focus 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 road to recovery. We finance your case so you will not have to pay any fees until we win your case.
Luckily, many birth injuries are minor, and as babies are still developing and growing quickly, some injuries can heal quite quickly. Whether or not the injury is minor or leads to lifelong disability, you are owed maximum compensation for your medical costs, pain and suffering and other damages if the injury happened because a doctor or medical institution in California, MO did not respect the rules and did not give you and your newborn child the standard of care they should have.
Types of Birth Injuries
Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy is a movement disorder and the most common form of birth injury that affects about 4 in 1,000 children. There are three categories of cerebral palsy:
- Spasticity (stiff muscles)
- Dyskinesia (uncontrollable movements)
- 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 might walk awkwardly but not require any particular 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, costly tests and special equipment to help your child walk or complete other daily functions. The California, MO-based birth injury lawyers at Burger Law demand that the liable party pays for all of your past, present and future medical damages connected to your birth injury.
The medical world is still learning about the causes and potential 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 happens during birth, many times is is because a doctor or nurse who was delivering the baby was negligent. Doctors need to sufficiently monitor if a child is in distress or if it is getting enough oxygen to its blood supply.
If they fail to do so and your child develops cerebral palsy as a result, Burger Law’s California, MO birth injury attorneys will take on your suit and make certain that you get the full compensation you are owed. If you are anxious that your child is not meeting motor skill achievements and suspect they might have cerebral palsy, it is vital to immediately seek out your doctor, who will evaluate your child and may refer you to a specialist. You can also contact Missouri’s Early Intervention system for a free examination if your child is less than three years old. If your child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy and you think a medical professional in California, MO is at fault, call Burger Law now at (314) 500-HURT for your free case evaluation with a qualified California, MO birth injury attorney, and start on the road to getting a full recovery and safeguarding the future of you and your family.
Brachial Plexus Injuries and Erb’s Palsy
Brachial plexus injuries are a type of birth injury that results from damage to the brachial plexus – the group of nerves in the shoulder that is in charge of movement and feeling in the arms and hands – during delivery. It limits the use of the arm and shoulder. This is caused by too much stretching around the shoulder, neck or head during birth, usually when the baby’s head is stretched to the side. This can happen because the baby was oversized, irregular 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 type of brachial plexus injury where the upper extremities are weak and unable to move normally. Some grave cases include the tearing of the nerves and can result in lifelong nerve damage. Thankfully, in the majority of cases, the child will regain movement within a few months, and there are specific exercises you can do with your baby to help maintain range of motion while he or she heals. No matter the extent of the injury or and the cost of the medical care, the California, MO birth injury lawyers at Burger Law will ensure that you recover maximum compensation and that the responsible party’s insurance company pays every penny they owe.
Shoulder Dystocia
When the baby’s shoulder or shoulders get stuck inside the mother’s pelvis during birth, it leads to a birth injury complication known as shoulder dystocia. In the majority of cases, the baby is born safely, and treatment may include just moving the mother’s and fetus’s position during birth. However, failure to note or properly treat shoulder dystocia can lead to broken bones, lack of oxygen, Erb's palsy, or extreme loss of blood for the mother. If any of these conditions occurred during your child’s birth, contact our California, MO birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT today.
Cephalohematoma
This birth injury happens 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 see a bump on your infant’s head, which typically goes away within a few weeks. The condition is usually not serious, however, there are several atypical complications that can surface. Cephalohematoma can increase your child’s risk of jaundice or anemia, and your baby may need a blood transfusion or other treatments.
Bruising, Lacerations, Soft Tissue Injuries or Fractures
Bruises and cuts are most often minor birth injuries that heal quickly. Still, they lead to extra medical bills and unwarranted worry for the parents. Oftentimes a baby can be bruised or cut by complications during delivery. For example, if the baby is too large for the mother or labor takes a long time, the baby spends too much time pressed against the mother’s pelvis and can be hurt.
Obviously, fractures are much more serious and can do much more harm. While broken bones during birth can lead to long-term or lifelong disability, normally they heal relatively quickly as infants are rapidly and constantly developing new bone. Regardless, a fracture during birth leads to unthinkable pain for your baby and mental distress for you. The delivering doctor must note the circumstances of the birth and take measures to protect the mother and child from harm. When the doctor fails to act as the are obligated to, you might have a birth injury claim. Our birth injury attorneys will fight to get you the compensation you and your, baby deserve while holding the negligent doctor accountable.
Many times there are steps a California, MO doctor should have taken but did not, and other times the doctor improperly used delivery tools or used too much force during the delivery. In that instance, it is important to contact our birth injury attorneys in California, MO at once to go over your options. Contact us today for a complimentary case review.
Injury to the Mother
Occasionally, the mother or both the mother and child sustained injuries during delivery. The mother may experience excessive blood loss or other complications. In some cases, the mother is injured because of a doctor’s substandard care. For example, high blood pressure before or during labor can point to preeclampsia, which can cause seizures. If you had a seizure while giving birth after a doctor failed to observe your high blood pressure, you are owed damages and our birth injury attorneys will fight to ensure you are properly compensated.
Emotional Injury
Not all damages in birth injury cases can be calculated in dollars. If you or your child were hurt because of a negligent physician, then you have experienced unmerited worry, anxiety, heartbreak, shock and more. In the most devastating cases, you and your child may have to deal with the possibility of your child never being able to enjoy common California, MO childhood games or needing special medical needs for the rest of their life. Getting a full recovery 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 child are entitled to, you need accomplished birth injury attorneys in California, MO on your case. Burger Law’s team of birth injury lawyers can help.
It is important to understand that there are several potential causes of birth injuries that are not connected to medical negligence or a breach of care. For instance, many California, MO birth injuries happen in the event of a delayed birth (labor that lasts over 18 hours). In some instances of delayed birth, a Cesarean section may have been the best method of treatment and in others, it could not have been. That depends on your unique birth. Each patient and each birth is different so is each individual case.
Our California, MO birth injury attorney at Burger Law has experience with every type of birth injury case and will help you understand if the standard of care you were treated with is below that which a competent doctor would have given you. Our network of California, MO physicians and medical experts will help us understand the specifics of your birth injury, calculate the value of your injuries and conclusively demonstrate the doctor’s negligence in providing you and your child substandard care so that we can get you a full recovery to make you and your child whole.
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
Doctors, healthcare professionals and California, MO medical institutions have what is called medical professional liability insurance, otherwise known as medical malpractice insurance. Like any California, MO insurance company, these insurers will try to bully, trick, and deceive you with complex 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 ensure they are held accountable and give you the best possible recovery you deserve. Medical malpractice cases in California, 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 owed.
In order to win a medical malpractice suit, you must do three things:
- Determine and prove negligence. Not all instances of birth complications or birth injury are the result of a doctor’s negligence. You must prove that the doctor breached the industry standard of care that a capable physician in the same field would have given you. Burger Law’s network of California, MO physicians and medical experts will help judge if there was negligence, and prove it in your case.
- Get a letter of support. You will need to hire a California, MO doctor or nurse in the same field—in this case, neonatal care—to write an affidavit supporting the fact that the care you experienced was negligent, improper, or substandard. As your birth injury attorneys, the Burger Law team will acquire your letter of support.
- Prove that negligence caused the injury. Your child might develop cerebral palsy or may be born with a broken collarbone because of shoulder dystocia. The doctor may or may not be negligible, and you will have to prove that the doctor’s behavior or inaction directly led to the injury. You must have a Burger Law California, MO birth injury lawyer you trust to help demonstrate how the defendant's negligence caused a birth injury that has hurt you and your family.
Burger law’s dedicated team of California, MO-based birth injury attorneys will stand by your side throughout the entire process and take on all the legal work for you so you can spend your energy on the well-being of you and your child.
The California, MO lawyers of Burger Law have the experience and knowledge to help you receive the full recovery you deserve after any accident or injury caused by someone else leaves you injured. Learn more about our fields of expertise below.
Call Our St. Louis Birth Injury Attorneys Today
If your baby sustained a birth injury, it is expected to feel a whole spectrum of emotions: scared, confused, infuriated and grief-stricken. If the birth injury is incurred because of medical malpractice, Burger Law will stand by your side to fight for your full recovery and put you on the road to recovery. Our unflinching California, MO birth injury lawyers will take on your claim and work endlessly for you, from initial case evaluation until we win your suit. Let us help you safeguard you and your family’s future. Get a free case review today by calling us at (314) 500-HURT or by filling out this form.