Protecting your child's future
Birth Injury Attorneys Kearney, MO
Birth Injury Attorneys in Kearney, 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 time. Contact the birth injury attorneys of Burger Law in Kearney, MO right away at (314) 500-HURT to discuss your birth injury case for free and learn what we will do to help you collect full compensation for your damages. Let our legal professionals 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 distressing and gut-wrenching. It can be especially enraging when the birth injury happened because of negligent or errant medical care. If your child was hurt because a doctor did not give you the care you and your child deserved, Burger Law’s Kearney, MO team of birth injury lawyers will fight by your side to win the financial compensation you and your family deserve to secure you and your family's future and begin on the path to recovery. Call our Kearney, 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 Kearney, 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 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 an infant’s development or brain function.
Many Kearney, MO attorneys may have seen some medical malpractice suits, but maybe not birth injury cases or with the particular birth injury you or your child sustained. Our Burger Law birth injury lawyers have experience with every sort of birth injury and know every type of birth injury claim, and you can be certain that we will fight by your side until you get full.
Do I Need a Kearney, MO Birth Injury Lawyer?
If you suspect that you or your child was injured owing to a doctor’s negligence or breach of care, then it is imperative to pursue the help of seasoned birth injury attorneys in Kearney, MO. Parenting a child in Kearney, MO already comes with a ton 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 due to a doctor’s negligence or careless actions. You should be wondering when your child will need new pajamas, not when they will outgrow their wheelchair because a doctor did not follow the rules.
The talented Kearney, MO birth injury attorneys at Burger Law will calculate your complete damages, including the dollar sum of any probable future medical costs and other expenses and damages. Your committed birth injury attorney will demand that you collect a complete and just recovery.
Whatever your child’s injuries, you want to focus on supplying your child with nourishment and jubilation, not scrambling to navigate a web of complicated legal procedures. When you contact our birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT, we start working on your case right away to get you great results. We manage all the documentation, communication and litigation so you can focus on you and your child’s physical and emotional well-being. Our expert birth injury lawyers will maximize your compensation and get you and your family on the path to recovery. We charge no attorney's fees until we win your case.
Luckily, many birth injuries are minor, and as babies are still developing and growing rapidly, some injuries can heal rather quickly. Whether or not the injury is minor or leads to lifelong disability, you are entitled to a full recovery for your medical bills, pain and suffering and other damages if the injury happened because a doctor or medical institution in Kearney, MO broke the rules and did not give you and your newborn child the professional care they should have.
Types 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:
- 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 need any particular assistance – or more severe, and your child may need special equipment to walk or not be able to walk at all. Diagnosing and treating cerebral palsy involves diligently following your child’s development, and that can include extensive medical appointments, expensive evaluations and special equipment to help your child walk or complete other daily tasks. The Kearney, MO-based birth injury lawyers at Burger Law demand that the at-fault party pays for all of your past, present and future medical damages related to your birth injury.
The medical community is still researching the causes and possible risk factors of cerebral palsy. We do know it happens because of abnormal development of the brain while the brain is still developing, which can happen before, during or shortly after birth. When it occurs during birth, many times is is because a doctor or nurse who was delivering the baby was negligent. Doctors need to correctly monitor if a child is in distress or if it is getting enough oxygen to its blood supply.
If your baby develops cerebral palsy because a doctor did not properly monitor them, Burger Law’s Kearney, MO birth injury attorneys will take on your case and make certain that you collect the best possible compensation you are owed. If you are worried that your child is not meeting motor skill benchmarks and think they might have cerebral palsy, it is important to immediately contact your doctor, who will examine your child and may send 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 believe a medical professional in Kearney, MO is to blame, call Burger Law straight away at (314) 500-HURT for your free consultation with a professional Kearney, MO birth injury attorney, and start on the journey 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 kind of birth injury that results from damage to the brachial plexus – the network of nerves in the shoulder that controls movement and sensation in the arms and hands – during birth. It hinders the motion 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 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 category 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 cause lifelong nerve damage. Thankfully, in the majority of cases, movement will return within a few months, and there are special exercises you can practice with your baby to help maintain movement while he or she heals. Whatever the scope of the injury or and the price of the medical expenses, the Kearney, 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 reimburses you every penny they owe.
Shoulder Dystocia
When the infant's shoulder or shoulders cannot easily pass through the mother during labor, it causes a birth injury complication called shoulder dystocia. Most of the time, the baby is born without serious incident, and treatment may entail just moving the mother’s and infant's position during delivery. However, neglecting to see or adequately treat shoulder dystocia can lead to 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, get in touch with our Kearney, MO birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT now.
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 see a bump on your infant’s head, which commonly disappears in a few weeks. The condition is usually mild, nevertheless, there are several uncommon problems that can come up. Cephalohematoma can increase your baby’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 usually minor birth injuries that heal quickly. Still, they lead to extra medical costs and undeserved anxiety for the parents. Often a baby can be bruised or cut by complications during birth. 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, broken bones are much more serious and can hurt your child in more serious ways. While broken bones during labor can cause long-term or lifelong disability, typically they heal comparatively rapidy as infants are rapidly and perpetually developing new bone. Regardless, a fracture during labor leads to unthinkable pain for your baby and mental anguish for you. The delivering doctor must observe the conditions of birth and take precautions to protect the mother and child from injury. When the doctor fails 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, child deserve while holding the at-fault doctor responsible.
Sometimes there are measures a Kearney, MO doctor should have utilized but neglected to, and other times the doctor improperly used delivery tools or applied too much force during labor. In that case, it is imperative to call our birth injury attorneys in Kearney, MO at once to go over your options. Contact us today for a free consultation.
Injury to the Mother
Occasionally, the mother or both the mother and child suffered injuries during labor. The mother may experience heavy blood loss or other complications. In some instances, the mother is hurt because of a doctor’s carelessness. For example, high blood pressure before or during birth can point to 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 entitled to damages and our birth injury attorneys will insist that you are properly compensated.
Emotional Injury
Not all damages in birth injury cases can be measured in dollars. If you or your child were hurt because of medical malpractice, then you have experienced unmerited worry, stress, devastation, trauma and more. In the worst cases, you and your child may have to face the prospect of your child never being able to take part in typical Kearney, MO childhood activities 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 family are entitled to, you need accomplished birth injury attorneys in Kearney, 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 do not have to do with medical negligence or a breach of care. For instance, many Kearney, MO birth injuries happen during 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 delivery. Each patient and each birth is different and individual cases vary greatly.
Our Kearney, MO birth injury attorney at Burger Law has experience with every kind of birth injury claim and will help you decide if the standard of care you were treated with is less than that which a competent doctor would have given you. Our network of Kearney, MO physicians and medical experts will help us understand the circumstances of your claim, determine the value of your injuries and conclusively demonstrate the physicians’s negligence in breaching their standard of care so that we can get you a full recovery to make you and your family whole.
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
Doctors, healthcare professionals and Kearney, MO medical institutions have what is called medical professional liability insurance, also called medical malpractice insurance. Like any Kearney, MO insurance company, these insurers will try to bully, trick, and swindle you with complex and misleading legal jargon. The savvy 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 fulfill their duty and give you the full compensation you are entitled to. Medical malpractice cases in Kearney, MO can be difficult, but our birth injury attorneys have over two years of experience arguing and winning birth injury suits and will obtain the evidence, proof, expert testimony and, eventually, the complete compensation you are owed.
In order to succeed in a medical malpractice lawsuit, you must accomplish three things:
- 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 breached the industry standard of care that a capable physician in the same field would have provided you. Burger Law’s network of Kearney, MO physicians and medical experts will help determine if there was negligence, and prove it in your case.
- Get a affidavit of support. You will need to hire a Kearney, MO doctor or nurse in the same field—in this instance, neonatal care—to write an affidavit saying that the care you experienced was negligent, improper, or substandard. As your birth injury attorneys, the Burger Law team will procure your letter of support.
- Prove that negligence caused the injury. 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 led to the injury. You need a Burger Law Kearney, MO birth injury lawyer you trust to help demonstrate how the doctor's negligence caused a birth injury that has damaged you and your child.
Burger law’s dedicated team of Kearney, MO-based birth injury attorneys will stand by your side throughout the entire process and handle all the legal work for you so you can spend your energy on the well-being of you and your child.
The Kearney, 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 child suffered a birth injury, it is normal to feel a range of emotions: frightened, confused, mad and heartbroken. If the birth injury is incurred because of medical malpractice, Burger Law will stand by your side to fight for your maximum compensation and put you on the road to recovery. Our unwavering Kearney, MO birth injury lawyers will take up your lawsuit and work around the clock for you, from our first case evaluation until we win your case. Let us help you protect 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.