Birth Injury Attorneys Crawford County, MO

Birth Injury Attorneys in Crawford County, MO. After the agony of a birth injury, you need an accomplished lawyer you can trust and depend on to fight for your family in this difficult moment. Contact the birth injury attorneys of Burger Law in Crawford County, MO right away at (314) 500-HURT to discuss your birth injury case for free and discover how we can help you recover maximum 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 at any time during or shortly after your pregnancy, it can be upsetting and heartbreaking. It can be especially enraging when the birth injury occurred because of negligent or errant medical care. If your child was injured because of a doctor’s breach of care, Burger Law’s Crawford County, MO team of birth injury lawyers will fight for you to get the financial compensation you and your family are entitled to to preserve you and your family's future and begin on the journey to recovery. Call our Crawford County, MO birth injury attorneys now at (314) 500-HURT or contact us online to get your free case review to see why hiring Burger Law is the first step to making you and your family whole again.

Birth Injuries in Crawford County, MO

About six to eight out of 1,000 children born in the United States experience a grave birth injury, which is about one in every 9,714 children and 28,000 babies a year. Birth injuries are the cause of around two percent of neonatal deaths. Such injuries can include fractures or disorders that affect a child's development or cognitive abilities.

Many Crawford County, MO attorneys may have seen some medical malpractice suits, but not in birth injury cases or with the certain birth injury you or your child sustained. Our Burger Law birth injury lawyers have experience with every kind of birth injury and know every type of birth injury claim, and you can be confident that we will fight on your behalf until you get maximum.

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

If you feel that you or your child was hurt due to a doctor’s negligence or breach of care, then you need to seek the aid of seasoned birth injury attorneys in Crawford County, MO. Parenting a child in Crawford County, MO already comes with a plethora of expenditures and stressors including food, clothing, school supplies and more. Add to that the prospect that you will have to pay their medical bills for years or their entire life all owing to a doctor’s negligence or careless actions. You ought to be thinking about when your child will outgrow their pajamas, not when they will need a replacement wheelchair because a doctor broke the rules.

The talented Crawford County, MO birth injury attorneys at Burger Law will calculate your complete damages, including the dollar sum of any possible future medical costs and other expenses and damages. Your devoted birth injury attorney will fight until you recover a full and fair recovery.

Whatever your child’s injuries, you want to focus on supplying your child with nourishment and joy, not attempting to maneuver through a labyrinth of convoluted legal processes. When you call our birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT, we start working on your case immediately to get you great results. We take care of all the documentation, communication and litigation so you can focus on you and your child’s physical and emotional well-being. Our skilled 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.

Luckily, many birth injuries are not serious, and as babies are still developing and growing quickly, many injuries can heal fairly 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 occurred because a doctor or medical institution in Crawford County, MO disregarded the rules and did not give you and your newborn child the professional care they owed.

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 require any special assistance – or more severe, and your child may require special equipment to walk or not be able to walk at all. Diagnosing and treating cerebral palsy involves diligently observing your child’s development, and that can include extensive medical appointments, costly tests and special equipment to help your child walk or complete other basic functions. The Crawford County, MO-based birth injury lawyers at Burger Law demand that the liable party pays for all of your past, present and future medical damages accompanying your birth injury.

The medical world is still researching 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 occur before, during or shortly after birth. When it happens during birth, it is often 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 baby develops cerebral palsy as a result, Burger Law’s Crawford County, MO birth injury attorneys will take on your claim and ensure you receive the full recovery you are entitled to. If you are concerned that your child is not meeting motor skill milestones and believe they might have cerebral palsy, it is key to immediately seek out your doctor, who will examine your child and may refer you to a specialist. You can also contact Missouri’s Early Intervention system for a free evaluation if your child is still under three years of age. If your child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy and you feel a medical professional in Crawford County, MO is at fault, call Burger Law today at (314) 500-HURT for your free case review with a qualified Crawford County, MO birth injury attorney, and start on the road to receiving a full recovery and safeguarding the future of you and your family.

Brachial Plexus Injuries and Erb’s Palsy

Brachial plexus injuries are a kind of birth injury that occurs as a result of damage to the brachial plexus – the network of nerves in the shoulder that controls movement and feeling in the arms and hands – 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, usually when the infant’s head is stretched to the side. This can occur because the baby was oversized, atypical 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 include the tearing of the nerves and can lead to lifelong nerve damage. Luckily, in most cases, the child will regain movement within a few months, and there are particular exercises you can practice with your baby to help retain range of motion as he or she is recovering. No matter the extent of the injury or and the cost of the medical treatment, the Crawford County, MO birth injury lawyers at Burger Law will make sure that you receive the best possible compensation and that the careless party’s insurance company pays every dime they owe.

Shoulder Dystocia

When the fetus's shoulder or shoulders get stuck inside the mother’s pelvis during labor, it leads to a birth injury complication known as shoulder dystocia. Most of the time, the infant is born safely, and treatment may entail just moving the mother’s and baby's position during labor. However, failure to see or adequately treat shoulder dystocia can cause fracture, 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, call our Crawford County, MO birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT now.

Cephalohematoma

This birth injury happens 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 notice a bulge on your child’s head, which usually goes away after a few weeks. The condition is usually mild, however, there are several atypical problems that can emerge. Cephalohematoma can increase your child’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 usually minor birth injuries that heal rapidly. Still, they lead to extra medical expenses and unwarranted worry for the parents. Often a baby can be bruised or cut by complications during delivery. For instance, if the baby is oversized or the birth is excessively long, the baby spends too much time pressed against the mother’s pelvis and can be injured.

Clearly, fractures are much more serious and can hurt your child in more serious ways. While broken bones during delivery can lead to long-term or lifelong disability, normally they heal comparatively rapidy as infants are rapidly and constantly growing new bone. Either way, a fracture during delivery causes unimaginable pain for your infant and mental anguish for you. The delivering doctor must notice the conditions of birth and take steps to protect the mother and child from injury. When the doctor neglects to treat you as the are obligated to, you might have a birth injury claim. Our birth injury attorneys will demand that you collect the compensation you and your, family deserve while holding the careless doctor responsible.

Occasionally there are steps a Crawford County, MO doctor should have implemented but did not, and other times the doctor incorrectly used delivery tools or applied too much force during birth. In that instance, it is important to reach out to our birth injury attorneys in Crawford County, MO now to discuss your options. Contact us today for a free case evaluation.

Injury to the Mother

Sometimes, the mother or both the mother and child were injured during birth. The mother may experience substantial blood loss or other complications. In some instances, the mother is injured because of a doctor’s negligence. For example, high blood pressure before or during delivery can be evidence of preeclampsia, which can lead to seizures. If you had a seizure while giving birth after a physician did not observe your high blood pressure, you are owed damages and our birth injury attorneys will fight to make sure you are justly 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, shock and more. In the most devastating cases, you and your child may have to deal with the chances of your child never being able to take part in typical Crawford County, MO childhood activities or needing special medical necessities for the remainder 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 receive the full recovery you and your family deserve, you require veteran birth injury attorneys in Crawford County, MO on your case. Burger Law’s team of birth injury lawyers can help.

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

Our Crawford County, MO birth injury attorney at Burger Law has seen every kind of birth injury lawsuit and will help you determine if the standard of care you received is below that which a competent doctor would have given you. Our network of Crawford County, MO physicians and medical experts will help us understand the circumstances of your claim, determine the value of your damages and prove the physicians’s negligence in providing you and your child substandard care so that we can get you maximum compensation to make you and your family whole.

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

Doctors, healthcare professionals and Crawford County, MO medical institutions have what is called medical professional liability insurance, commonly known as medical malpractice insurance. Like any Crawford County, MO insurance company, these insurers will try to bully, trick, and defraud you with complicated 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 guarantee they are held responsible and give you the best possible compensation you deserve. Medical malpractice cases in Crawford County, MO can be tricky, but our birth injury attorneys have over two years of experience arguing and winning birth injury lawsuits and will obtain the evidence, proof, expert testimony and, eventually, the complete compensation you deserve.

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

1. Determine and demonstrate negligence. Not all instances of birth complications or birth injury are owing to a doctor’s negligence. You must prove that the doctor breached the industry standard of care that a competent physician in the same field would have treated you with. Burger Law’s network of Crawford County, MO physicians and medical experts will help judge if there was negligence, and prove it in your case.
2. Get a letter of support. You will need to hire a Crawford County, MO doctor or nurse in the same field—in this case, neonatal care—to write an affidavit agreeing that the care you received was negligent, improper, or substandard. As your birth injury attorneys, the Burger Law team will procure your letter of support.
3. Conclusively demonstrate that negligence caused the harm. 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 at fault, and you will have to prove that the doctor’s actions or inaction directly led to the injury. You need a Burger Law Crawford County, MO birth injury lawyer you trust to help demonstrate how the doctor's negligence caused a birth injury that has harmed you and your child.

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

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Call Our St. Louis Birth Injury Attorneys Today

If your child suffered a birth injury, it is expected to feel a whole spectrum of emotions: scared, confused, angry and grief-stricken. If the birth injury occurs because of medical malpractice, Burger Law will stand by your side to fight for your complete compensation and put you on the path to recovery. Our tenacious Crawford County, MO birth injury lawyers will take on your claim and work tirelessly for you, from our first consultation 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.