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Birth Injury Attorneys Jefferson County, MO
Birth Injury Attorneys in Jefferson County, MO. After the anguish of a birth injury, you need an accomplished lawyer you can trust and count on to fight for your family in this difficult moment. Reach out to the birth injury attorneys of Burger Law in Jefferson County, MO right away at (314) 500-HURT to talk about your birth injury case for free and find out how we can help you be awarded 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 experiences a birth injury before, during or after delivery, it can be upsetting and heartbreaking. It can be especially maddening when the birth injury happened due to negligent or improper medical care. If your child was harmed because a doctor did not give you the care they owed you and your child, Burger Law’s Jefferson County, MO team of birth injury lawyers will fight for you to get the financial recovery you and your family deserve to safeguard you and your family's future and start on the journey to recovery. Call our Jefferson County, MO birth injury attorneys now at (314) 500-HURT or contact us online to get your complimentary case evaluation to see why hiring Burger Law is the first step to making you and your family whole again.
Birth Injuries in Jefferson 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 births 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 cognition.
Many Jefferson County, MO attorneys may have seen some medical malpractice suits, but not necessarily birth injury cases or with the specific birth injury you or your child suffered. Our Burger Law birth injury lawyers have experience with every type of birth injury and know every type of birth injury case, and you can be sure that we will fight by your side until you get a full recovery.
Do I Need a Jefferson County, MO Birth Injury Lawyer?
If you suspect that you or your child was injured due to a doctor’s negligence or substandard care, then you must pursue the aid of veteran birth injury attorneys in Jefferson County, MO. Raising a child in Jefferson County, MO already comes with an overabundance of expenses and concerns including food, clothing, school supplies and more. Add to that the chance that your child could need months or years of medical care, rehabilitation or lifelong care, all because of a doctor’s negligence or careless actions. You deserve to be thinking about when your child will outgrow their pajamas, not when they will outgrow their wheelchair because a doctor disregarded the rules.
The accomplished Jefferson County, MO birth injury attorneys at Burger Law will determine your complete damages, including the dollar figure of any potential future medical costs and other expenses and damages. Your committed birth injury attorney will insist that you recover a complete and just recovery.
Whatever your child’s condition, you want to use your energy supplying your child with nourishment and happiness, not scrambling to navigate a web of serpentine legal procedures. When you call our birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT, we begin work on your case straight away to get you great results. We manage all the documentation, communication and litigation so you can spend your energy on you and your child’s physical and emotional well-being. Our deft birth injury lawyers will maximize your 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.
Fortunately, many birth injuries are minor, and as babies are still developing and growing quickly, some injuries can heal comparatively fast. But whether the injury is minor or leads to lifelong disability, you are owed a full recovery for your medical expenses, pain and suffering and other damages if the injury occurred because a doctor or medical institution in Jefferson County, MO disregarded the rules and did not give you and your newborn child the standard of care they should have.
Kinds of Birth Injuries
Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that limits movement and the most common form of birth injury that affects about 4 in 1,000 children. There are three kinds 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 may have an unusual gait but does not necessitate any special assistance – or more serious, and your child might need special equipment to walk or not be able to walk at all. Diagnosing and treating cerebral palsy involves diligently keeping an eye on your child’s development, and that can include extensive medical appointments, pricey tests and special equipment to help your child walk or complete other basic tasks. The Jefferson County, MO-based birth injury lawyers at Burger Law fight until the liable party pays for all of your past, present and future medical damages related to your birth injury.
The medical world is still researching the causes and potential risk factors of cerebral palsy. We do know it is caused by abnormal development of the brain while the brain is still developing, which can take place 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 properly monitor if a child is in distress or if it is receiving enough oxygen to its blood supply.
If your child develops cerebral palsy because a doctor did not sufficiently monitor them, Burger Law’s Jefferson County, MO birth injury attorneys will tackle your case and make sure you collect the maximum compensation you are owed. If you are worried that your child is not meeting movement milestones and believe they may have cerebral palsy, it is vital 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 has yet to turn three. If your child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy and you believe a medical professional in Jefferson County, MO is at fault, call Burger Law right away at (314) 500-HURT for your free case review with a professional Jefferson County, MO birth injury attorney, and start on the road to collecting maximum compensation and protecting the future of you and your child.
Brachial Plexus Injuries and Erb’s Palsy
Brachial plexus injuries are a kind 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 arms and hands – during delivery. It restricts the movement of the arm and shoulder. This is caused by excessive stretching around the shoulder, neck or head during birth, normally when the baby’s head is stretched to the side. This can happen because the baby was very large, 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 permanent nerve damage. Fortunately, in the majority of cases, range of motion will return within a few months, and there are special exercises you can do with your baby to help retain range of motion as he or she is recovering. Regardless of the extent of the injury or and the cost of the medical treatment, the Jefferson County, MO birth injury lawyers at Burger Law will ensure that you receive the best possible compensation and that the responsible party’s insurance company reimburses you every penny they owe.
Shoulder Dystocia
When the fetus's shoulder or shoulders get stuck inside the mother’s pelvis during labor, it results in a birth injury complication called shoulder dystocia. Most of the time, the infant is born without serious incident, and treatment may mean merely moving the mother’s and infant's position during labor. However, failure to see or sufficiently treat shoulder dystocia can lead to broken bones, 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, contact our Jefferson County, MO birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT straight away.
Cephalohematoma
This birth injury takes place when blood accumulates between a baby’s scalp and the skull as the result of damaged blood vessels during labor or delivery. You will see a bulge on your infant’s head, which most often disappears in a few weeks. The condition is usually mild, nevertheless, there are some uncommon complications that can appear. Cephalohematoma can increase your baby’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 commonly minor birth injuries that children recover from quickly. Nonetheless, they lead to extra medical bills and unmerited anxiety for the parents. It is not uncommon that a baby can be bruised or cut by complications in the birth process. 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 harmed.
Obviously, fractures are much more serious and can hurt your child in more serious ways. While broken bones during delivery can cause long-term or lifelong disability, usually they heal comparatively quickly as babies are rapidly and constantly growing new bone. Either way, a fracture during birth leads to unimaginable pain for your infant and mental anguish for you. The delivering doctor must observe the conditions of birth and take precautions to protect the mother and child from harm. When the doctor neglects to act as the are required to, you could have a birth injury claim. Our birth injury attorneys will insist that you collect the compensation you and your, baby deserve while holding the negligent doctor responsible.
Often there are measures a Jefferson County, MO doctor should have taken but neglected to, and other times the doctor improperly used delivery tools or applied too much force during birth. In that case, it is imperative to call our birth injury attorneys in Jefferson County, MO immediately to go through your options. Contact us today for a complimentary case review.
Injury to the Mother
Sometimes, the mother or both the mother and child suffered injuries during birth. The mother may experience heavy 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 be a sign of preeclampsia, which can cause seizures. If you had a seizure while giving birth after a physician failed to observe your high blood pressure, you are owed damages and our birth injury attorneys will fight to ensure you are justly compensated.
Emotional Injury
Not all damages in birth injury cases can be calculated in dollars. If you or your child were hurt because of medical malpractice, then you have experienced unmerited worry, anxiety, heartbreak, shock and more. In the most devastating cases, you and your child may have to accept the prospect of your child never being able to enjoy normal Jefferson County, MO childhood activities or needing special medical requirements 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 receive maximum compensation you and your child are owed, you need seasoned birth injury attorneys in Jefferson 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 potential causes of birth injuries that do not have to do with medical negligence or a breach of care. For example, many Jefferson County, 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 could 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 Jefferson County, MO birth injury attorney at Burger Law has experience with every variety of birth injury lawsuit 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 Jefferson County, MO physicians and medical experts will help us understand the circumstances of your claim, calculate the value of your damages and conclusively demonstrate the physicians’s negligence in giving you and your child substandard care so that we can get you a full recovery to make you and your family whole.
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
Doctors, healthcare professionals and Jefferson County, MO medical institutions have what is called medical professional liability insurance, otherwise called medical malpractice insurance. Like any Jefferson County, MO insurance company, these insurers will try to bully, mislead, and defraud you with complex and misleading legal vernacular. The savvy birth injury lawyers at Burger law will manage 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 full compensation you are entitled to. Medical malpractice cases in Jefferson County, MO can be tough, but our birth injury attorneys have over two years of experience trying and winning birth injury lawsuits and will get the evidence, proof, expert testimony and, eventually, the complete compensation you deserve.
In order to triumph in a medical malpractice lawsuit, you must accomplish three things:
- Determine and demonstrate negligence. Not all instances of birth complications or birth injury are the result of a doctor’s negligence. You must prove that the physician breached the industry standard of care that a competent doctor in the same field would have given you. Burger Law’s network of Jefferson County, MO physicians and medical experts will help determine if there was negligence, and prove it in your case.
- Get a letter of support. You will need to hire a Jefferson County, MO doctor or nurse in the same field—in this instance, neonatal care—to write an affidavit supporting the fact that the care you were given was negligent, improper, or substandard. As your birth injury attorneys, the Burger Law team will obtain your letter of support.
- Conclusively demonstrate 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 negligible, and you will have to prove that the doctor’s birthing techniques or inaction directly caused the harm. You need a Burger Law Jefferson County, MO birth injury lawyer you trust to help demonstrate how the physician's negligence caused a birth injury that has hurt you and your child.
Burger law’s dedicated team of Jefferson County, MO-based birth injury attorneys will stand by your side every step of the way and take on all the legal work for you so you can focus your energy on the health of you and your child.
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If your baby received a birth injury, it is understandable to feel a range of emotions: frightened, confused, infuriated and grief-stricken. If the birth injury happens because of medical malpractice, Burger Law will stand by your side to fight for your full compensation and put you on the road to recovery. Our determined Jefferson County, MO birth injury lawyers will take on your case and work tirelessly for you, from initial case evaluation until we win your lawsuit. 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.