Birth Injury Attorneys Chesterfield, MO

Birth Injury Attorneys in Chesterfield, MO. After the devastation of a birth injury, you need an experienced lawyer you can trust and lean on to fight for your family in this difficult time. Get in touch with the birth injury attorneys of Burger Law in Chesterfield, 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 or your child's injuries. Let our legal professionals help your family move forward and be made whole with a complete financial recovery.

When your child experiences a birth injury before, during or after delivery, it can be upsetting and agonizing. It can be even more maddening when the birth injury occurred because of negligent or errant medical care. If your child has been harmed because of a doctor’s breach of care, Burger Law’s Chesterfield, MO team of birth injury lawyers will fight by your side to win the financial compensation you and your family deserve to preserve you and your family's future and begin on the journey to recovery. Call our Chesterfield, MO birth injury attorneys now at (314) 500-HURT or contact us online to get your free consultation to see why hiring Burger Law is the first step to making you and your family whole again.

Birth Injuries in Chesterfield, MO

About six to eight out of 1,000 children born in the United States sustain a severe birth injury, which makes up about one in every 9,714 children and 28,000 infants a year. About two percent of neonatal deaths are because of birth injuries. Examples of such birth injuries are fractures or disorders that impact a child's development or brain function.

Many Chesterfield, MO attorneys may have seen some medical malpractice suits, but not necessarily birth injury cases or with the particular birth injury you or your child sustained. Our Burger Law birth injury lawyers have seen every kind of birth injury and know every type of birth injury lawsuit, and you can be sure that we will fight on your behalf until you get a complete recovery.

Do I Need a Chesterfield, MO Birth Injury Lawyer?

If you believe that you or your child was injured because of a doctor’s negligence or breach of care, then you must turn to the help of veteran birth injury attorneys in Chesterfield, MO. Rearing a child in Chesterfield, MO already comes with a plethora of costs and stressors including food, clothing, school supplies and more. Add to that the chance that you will have to pay their medical bills for years or their entire life all due to a doctor’s negligence or careless actions. You deserve to be wondering when your child will need new pajamas, not when they might need a replacement wheelchair because a doctor disregarded the rules.

The experienced Chesterfield, MO birth injury attorneys at Burger Law will determine your complete damages, including the dollar sum of any potential future medical costs and other expenses and damages. Your devoted birth injury attorney will insist that you are awarded a full and fair recovery.

Whatever your child’s condition, you want to focus on supplying your child with nourishment and jubilation, not struggling to navigate a maze of complicated legal procedures. When you contact our birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT, we begin work on your case immediately to get you great results. We oversee all the documentation, communication and litigation so you can spend your energy on you and your child’s physical and emotional well-being. Our talented birth injury lawyers will maximize your compensation and get you and your family on the journey to recovery. We finance your case so you will not have to pay any fees until we win your case.

Thankfully, many birth injuries are not serious, and as babies are still developing and growing rapidly, some injuries can heal comparatively fast. Whether or not the injury is minor or leads to lifelong disability, you deserve a full recovery for your medical costs, pain and suffering and other damages if the injury was incurred because a doctor or medical institution in Chesterfield, MO did not respect the rules and did not give you and your newborn child the professional care they owed.

Kinds of Birth Injuries

Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy is a neurological condition that affects motor skills 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 might walk awkwardly but not require any special assistance – or more severe, and your child may necessitate special equipment to walk or not be able to walk at all. Diagnosing and treating cerebral palsy involves closely observing your child’s development, and that can include extensive medical appointments, expensive tests and special equipment to help your child walk or carry out other daily functions. The Chesterfield, MO-based birth injury lawyers at Burger Law insist that the liable party pays for all of your past, present and future medical damages associated with your birth injury.

The medical community is still researching the causes and possible risk factors of cerebral palsy. They do know it is caused by abnormal development of the brain while the brain is still developing, which can happen at any time during the pregnancy or birth. When it happens during birth, it is often because a doctor or nurse who was delivering the baby was negligent. Doctors need to adequately 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 Chesterfield, MO birth injury attorneys will take on your lawsuit and make certain that you receive the full recovery you deserve. If you are upset that your child is not meeting motor skill milestones and think they might have cerebral palsy, it is essential to immediately seek out your doctor, who will examine your child and might refer you to a specialist. You can also contact Missouri’s Early Intervention system for a free evaluation if your child is less than three years old. If your child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy and you suspect a medical professional in Chesterfield, MO is responsible, call Burger Law right away at (314) 500-HURT for your free case evaluation with a professional Chesterfield, MO birth injury attorney, and start on the path to receiving a full recovery and safeguarding the future of you and your child.

Brachial Plexus Injuries and Erb’s Palsy

Brachial plexus injuries are a category of birth injury that occurs as a result of damage to the brachial plexus – the group of nerves in the shoulder that controls movement and sensation in the arms and hands – during birth. It impedes the movement of the arm and shoulder. This is caused by excessive stretching around the shoulder, neck or head during birth, generally when the infant’s head is stretched to the side. This can take place because the baby was too large to pass through the mother safely, 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 variety of brachial plexus injury where the arm is weak and the shoulder joint lacks range of motion. Some severe cases involve the tearing of the nerves and can lead to lifelong nerve damage. Fortunately, in most cases, the child will regain range of motion within a few months, and there are specific exercises you can practice with your child to help maintain range of motion as he or she is recovering. Whatever the extent of the injury or and the price of the medical treatment, the Chesterfield, MO birth injury lawyers at Burger Law will make sure that you receive great compensation and that the responsible party’s insurance company reimburses you every dime they owe.

Shoulder Dystocia

When the baby’s shoulder or shoulders cannot easily pass through the mother during birth, it results in a birth injury complication known as shoulder dystocia. In most cases, the infant is born safely, and treatment may include just moving the mother’s and infant's position during labor. However, failure to observe or correctly treat shoulder dystocia can cause fracture, lack of oxygen, Erb's palsy, or heavy loss of blood for the mother. If any of these conditions occurred during your child’s birth, call our Chesterfield, MO birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT today.

Cephalohematoma

This birth injury takes place when there is a collection of blood between a baby’s scalp and the skull because of damaged blood vessels during labor or delivery. You will observe a bulge on your baby’s head, which typically dissipates in a few weeks. The condition is usually minor, nevertheless, there are several uncommon issues that can emerge. Cephalohematoma can increase your infant’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 typically minor birth injuries that heal quickly. However, they lead to extra medical costs and undeserved worry for the parents. It is not uncommon that a baby can be bruised or cut by complications during delivery. For example, if the baby is too large for the mother or the delivery is excessively long, the baby spends too much time pressed against the mother’s pelvis and can be hurt.

Clearly, broken bones are much more sever and can hurt your child in more serious ways. While a fracture during delivery can lead to long-term or lifelong disability, normally they heal comparatively quickly as children are rapidly and perpetually developing new bone. Regardless, a broken bone during delivery causes unthinkable pain for your baby and mental distress for you. The delivering doctor must observe the circumstances of the birth and take steps to protect the mother and child from harm. When the doctor does not treat you as the are obligated to, you may have a birth injury claim. Our birth injury attorneys will insist that you receive the compensation you and your, baby deserve while holding the at-fault doctor accountable.

Sometimes there are measures a Chesterfield, MO doctor should have implemented but failed to, and other times the doctor improperly used delivery tools or used too much force during birth. In that instance, it is imperative to get in touch with our birth injury attorneys in Chesterfield, MO at once to go over your options. Contact us today for a free consultation.

Injury to the Mother

Sometimes, 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 harmed because of a doctor’s carelessness. For example, high blood pressure before or during birth can point to preeclampsia, which can lead to seizures. If you had a seizure while giving birth after a doctor failed to observe your high blood pressure, you are entitled to damages and our birth injury attorneys will insist that you are fairly 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 doctor, then you have experienced unwarranted worry, anxiety, heartbreak, trauma and more. In the most tragic cases, you and your child may have to deal with the possibility of your child never being able to take part in typical Chesterfield, MO childhood games or needing special medical necessities for the remainder 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 maximum compensation you and your child deserve, you need veteran birth injury attorneys in Chesterfield, MO on your case. Burger Law’s team of birth injury lawyers can help.

It is important to realize that there are several possible causes of birth injuries that are unrelated to medical negligence or a breach of care. For example, many Chesterfield, MO birth injuries take place when there is 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 might not have been. That depends on your unique situation. Each patient and each birth is different so is each individual case.

Our Chesterfield, MO birth injury attorney at Burger Law has experience with every variety of birth injury suit and will help you determine if the standard of care you were treated with is less than that which a competent doctor would have given you. Our network of Chesterfield, MO physicians and medical experts will help us understand the circumstances of your case, determine the value of your damages and prove the doctor’s negligence in affording 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

Physicians, healthcare professionals and Chesterfield, MO medical institutions have what is called medical professional liability insurance, otherwise known as medical malpractice insurance. Like any Chesterfield, MO insurance company, these insurers will try to bully, trick, and defraud you with convoluted and misleading legal gibberish. The talented birth injury lawyers at Burger law will take up all communication and litigation for you and will stand up to bullies like resistant insurance companies to make sure they fulfill their obligation and give you the full compensation you are entitled to. Medical malpractice cases in Chesterfield, MO can be tough, but our birth injury attorneys have over twenty years of experience trying and winning birth injury cases and will obtain the evidence, proof, expert testimony and, eventually, the complete compensation you are entitled to.

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

1. Assign and demonstrate negligence. Not all instances of birth complications or birth injury are because of a doctor’s negligence. You must prove that the doctor gave you a substandard level of care that a capable physician in the same field would have provided you. Burger Law’s network of Chesterfield, 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 Chesterfield, MO doctor or nurse in the same field—in this instance, neonatal care—to write an affidavit stating that the care you experienced was negligent, improper, or substandard. As your birth injury attorneys, the Burger Law team will obtain your letter of support.
3. 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 harm. You need a Burger Law Chesterfield, MO birth injury lawyer you trust to help demonstrate how the doctor's negligence caused a birth injury that has harmed you and your family.

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

The Chesterfield, 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.

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If your child received a birth injury, it is normal to feel an array of emotions: terrified, confused, angry and grief-stricken. 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 path to recovery. Our resolute Chesterfield, MO birth injury lawyers will take up your case and work tirelessly for you, from our first case evaluation until we win your suit. 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.