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Birth Injury Attorneys Nevada, MO
Birth Injury Attorneys in Nevada, MO. After the agony of a birth injury, you need an veteran lawyer you can trust and depend on to fight for your family in this terrible moment. Get in touch with the birth injury attorneys of Burger Law in Nevada, MO right away at (314) 500-HURT to talk about your birth injury case for free and discover how we can help you collect the best possible compensation for your or your child's injuries. Allow our legal professionals to 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 painful. It can be even more enraging when the birth injury is the result of negligent or incorrect medical care. If your child was harmed because of a doctor’s substandard care, Burger Law’s Nevada, MO team of birth injury lawyers will fight for you to win the financial recovery you and your family are entitled to to safeguard you and your family's future and start on the path to recovery. Call our Nevada, MO birth injury attorneys now at (314) 500-HURT or contact us online to get your complimentary case review to see why hiring Burger Law is the first step to making you and your family whole again.
Birth Injuries in Nevada, MO
About six to eight out of 1,000 children born in the United States sustain a serious birth injury, which equals about one in every 9,714 children and 28,000 infants a year. Birth injuries are responsible for around two percent of neonatal deaths. Such injuries can include fractures or disorders that have an effect on an infant’s development or brain function.
Many Nevada, MO attorneys may have experience in 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 seen every sort of birth injury and know every type of birth injury case, and you can be certain that we will fight by your side until you get full.
Do I Need a Nevada, MO Birth Injury Lawyer?
If you believe that you or your child was harmed due to a doctor’s negligence or breach of care, then you need to pursue the aid of seasoned birth injury attorneys in Nevada, MO. Raising a child in Nevada, MO already comes with a plethora of costs and stressors including food, clothing, school supplies and more. Add to that the chance that your child could need months or years of medical treatment, rehabilitation or lifelong care, all because of a doctor’s negligence or careless actions. You should be wondering when your child will outgrow their shoes, not when they might require a replacement wheelchair because a doctor broke the rules.
The accomplished Nevada, MO birth injury attorneys at Burger Law will calculate your complete damages, including the dollar figure of any potential future medical costs and other expenses and damages. Your dedicated birth injury attorney will demand that you are awarded a complete and just recovery.
Whatever your child’s injuries, you want to concentrating on giving your child with nourishment and joy, not struggling to maneuver through a web of complicated legal procedures. When you reach out to our birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT, we begin work on your case at once to get you great results. We handle 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 deliver maximum 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.
Fortunately, many birth injuries are minor, 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 are owed a full recovery for your medical costs, pain and suffering and other damages if the injury happened because a doctor or medical institution in Nevada, 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 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 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 have an awkward gait but does not necessitate any extra help – or more severe, and your child might require special equipment to walk or not be able to walk at all. Diagnosing and treating cerebral palsy involves diligently watching your child’s development, and that can include comprehensive medical appointments, expensive evaluations and special equipment to help your child walk or complete other daily functions. The Nevada, MO-based birth injury lawyers at Burger Law demand that the negligent party pays for all of your past, present and future medical damages associated with your birth injury.
The medical world is still learning about 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 sufficiently monitor if a child is in distress or if it is receiving enough oxygen to its blood supply.
If your baby develops cerebral palsy because a doctor did not correctly monitor them, Burger Law’s Nevada, MO birth injury attorneys will take on your case and make certain that you receive the maximum recovery you are entitled to. If you are anxious that your child is not meeting movement benchmarks and think they may have cerebral palsy, it is important to immediately reach out to your doctor, who will evaluate 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 still under three years of age. If your child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy and you suspect a medical professional in Nevada, MO is at fault, call Burger Law today at (314) 500-HURT for your free consultation with a professional Nevada, MO birth injury attorney, and start on the path to getting maximum compensation and safeguarding the future of you and your child.
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 impedes the movement of the arm and shoulder. This is caused by too much stretching around the shoulder, neck or head during birth, generally when the baby’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 upper extremities are weak and unable to move normally. Some grave cases involve the tearing of the nerves and can cause permanent nerve damage. Luckily, in most cases, the infant will regain movement within a few months, and there are certain exercises you can do with your baby to help maintain range of motion as he or she is recovering. No matter the scope of the injury or and the price of the medical care, the Nevada, MO birth injury lawyers at Burger Law will make certain that you recover great compensation and that the negligible party’s insurance company pays every dollar they owe.
Shoulder Dystocia
When the baby’s shoulder or shoulders get stuck inside the mother’s pelvis during delivery, it causes a birth injury complication called shoulder dystocia. In most cases, the infant is born safely, and treatment may mean simply moving the mother’s and infant's position during birth. However, neglecting to notice or correctly treat shoulder dystocia can result in 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, get in touch with our Nevada, MO birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT straight away.
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 notice a bulge on your infant’s head, which typically dissipates in a few weeks. The condition is usually minor, but, there are some atypical issues that can appear. 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 most often minor birth injuries that babies recover from quickly. Nevertheless, they lead to extra medical bills and unmerited worry for the parents. Oftentimes a baby can be bruised or cut by complications in the birth process. For example, if the baby is oversized or labor is excessively long, the baby spends too much time pushed up against the mother’s pelvis and can be injured.
Clearly, fractures are much more grave and can hurt your baby in more serious ways. While a fracture during birth can lead to long-term or lifelong disability, normally they heal comparatively rapidy as infants are rapidly and constantly developing new bone. Either way, a fracture during birth results in unthinkable pain for your infant and mental distress for you. The delivering doctor must notice the circumstances of the birth and take steps to protect the mother and child from harm. When the doctor does not behave as the are required to, you may have a birth injury claim. Our birth injury attorneys will demand that you get the compensation you and your, family deserve while holding the careless doctor responsible.
Occasionally there are steps a Nevada, MO doctor should have taken but failed to, and other times the doctor improperly used delivery tools or applied too much force during the delivery. In that case, it is imperative to call our birth injury attorneys in Nevada, MO straight away to go through your options. Contact us today for a free case review.
Injury to the Mother
Occasionally, 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 carelessness. For example, high blood pressure before or during labor can be a symptom of preeclampsia, which can lead to seizures. If you had a seizure while giving birth after a doctor failed to recognize your high blood pressure, you are owed damages and our birth injury attorneys will demand that 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 undeserved worry, stress, devastation, shock 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 Nevada, MO childhood activities or needing special medical needs 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 collect the full recovery you and your child are owed, you require talented birth injury attorneys in Nevada, 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 do not have to do with medical negligence or a breach of care. For instance, many Nevada, 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 might have been the best method of treatment and in others, it might not have been. That depends on your unique circumstances. Each patient and each birth is different and individual cases vary greatly.
Our Nevada, MO birth injury attorney at Burger Law has experience with every kind of birth injury case and will help you determine if the standard of care you were treated with is less than that which a capable doctor would have given you. Our network of Nevada, MO physicians and medical experts will help us understand the details of your case, determine the value of your injuries and prove the physicians’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 Nevada, MO medical institutions have what is called medical professional liability insurance, otherwise called medical malpractice insurance. Like any Nevada, MO insurance company, these insurers will try to bully, trick, and deceive you with complicated and misleading legal gibberish. The shrewd 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 fulfill their duty and give you the best possible compensation you are owed. Medical malpractice cases in Nevada, MO can be hard, but our birth injury attorneys have over twenty years of experience trying and winning birth injury cases and will acquire the evidence, proof, expert testimony and, eventually, the complete compensation you deserve.
In order to win a medical malpractice claim, you must accomplish three things:
- Assign and demonstrate negligence. Not all cases 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 provided you. Burger Law’s network of Nevada, 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 Nevada, MO doctor or nurse in the same field—in this case, neonatal care—to write a letter stating that the care you were given was negligent, improper, or substandard. As your birth injury attorneys, the Burger Law team will acquire your letter of support.
- 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 behavior or inaction directly led to the injury. You need a Burger Law Nevada, MO birth injury lawyer you trust to help demonstrate how the physician's negligence caused a birth injury that has harmed you and your family.
Burger law’s dedicated team of Nevada, 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 focus your energy on the well-being of you and your child.
The Nevada, 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 sustained a birth injury, it is expected to feel an array of emotions: terrified, confused, infuriated and heartbroken. 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 unwavering Nevada, MO birth injury lawyers will take on your lawsuit and work endlessly for you, from initial case review until we win your claim. Allow us to 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.