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Birth Injury Attorneys Ozark, MO
Birth Injury Attorneys in Ozark, MO. After the agony of a birth injury, you need an accomplished lawyer you can trust and count on to fight for your family in this terrible moment. Contact the birth injury attorneys of Burger Law in Ozark, MO right away at (314) 500-HURT to talk about your birth injury case for free and learn how we can help you receive full compensation for your or your child's injuries. Allow our legal experts 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 upsetting and agonizing. It can be particularly infuriating when the birth injury is the result of negligent or errant medical care. If your child was hurt because a doctor did not give you the care they owed you and your child, Burger Law’s Ozark, MO team of birth injury lawyers will fight by your side to get the financial compensation you and your family deserve to safeguard you and your loved ones’ future and start on the journey to recovery. Call our Ozark, MO birth injury attorneys now at (314) 500-HURT or contact us online to get your complimentary consultation to see why hiring Burger Law is the first step to making you and your family whole again.
Birth Injuries in Ozark, MO
About six to eight out of 1,000 children born in the United States suffer a grave birth injury, which makes up about one in every 9,714 children and 28,000 babies 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 cognitive abilities.
Many Ozark, MO attorneys may have seen some medical malpractice suits, but maybe not birth injury cases or with the specific birth injury you or your child experienced. Our Burger Law birth injury lawyers have seen every category 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 full.
Do I Need a Ozark, MO Birth Injury Lawyer?
If you think that you or your child was injured because of a doctor’s negligence or substandard care, then it is crucial to seek the aid of accomplished birth injury attorneys in Ozark, MO. Raising a child in Ozark, MO already comes with a plethora of expenditures and stressors including food, clothing, school supplies and more. Add to that the likelihood 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 should be thinking about when your child will outgrow their shoes, not when they will outgrow their wheelchair because a doctor disregarded the rules.
The skilled Ozark, MO birth injury attorneys at Burger Law will determine your complete damages, including the dollar amount of any probable future medical costs and other expenses and damages. Your devoted birth injury attorney will insist that you recover a full and just recovery.
Whatever your child’s condition, you want to concentrating on supplying your child with nourishment and joy, not attempting to maneuver through a maze of serpentine legal processes. When you contact our birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT, we start working on your case immediately to deliver the best possible results. We oversee all the documentation, communication and litigation so you can concentrate on you and your child’s physical and emotional well-being. Our adept birth injury lawyers will deliver maximum compensation and get you and your family on the path 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 minor, and as babies are still developing and growing quickly, many injuries can heal pretty quickly. Whether or not the injury is minor or leads to lifelong disability, you are entitled to maximum compensation for your medical expenses, pain and suffering and other damages if the injury occurred because a doctor or medical institution in Ozark, MO broke 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 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 categories 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 require any special help – 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 keeping an eye on your child’s development, and that can include comprehensive medical appointments, pricey tests and special equipment to help your child walk or carry out other daily tasks. The Ozark, 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 connected to your birth injury.
The medical world is still researching the causes and potential 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 occur at any time during the pregnancy or birth. When it takes place 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 getting enough oxygen to its blood supply.
If your child develops cerebral palsy because a doctor did not correctly monitor them, Burger Law’s Ozark, MO birth injury attorneys will tackle your case and ensure you receive the maximum compensation you are owed. If you are worried that your child is not meeting movement benchmarks and suspect they may have cerebral palsy, it is essential 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 consultation if your child is less than three years old. If your child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy and you feel a medical professional in Ozark, MO is at fault, call Burger Law immediately at (314) 500-HURT for your complimentary case evaluation with a professional Ozark, MO birth injury attorney, and start on the path to collecting 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 results from damage to the brachial plexus – the group of nerves in the shoulder that controls movement and feeling in the upper extremities – during birth. It restricts 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 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 kind 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 most cases, the infant will regain movement within a few months, and there are specific exercises you can practice with your child to help maintain movement as he or she is recovering. No matter the extent of the injury or and the price of the medical expenses, the Ozark, MO birth injury lawyers at Burger Law will ensure that you are awarded great compensation and that the negligible party’s insurance company pays every penny they owe.
Shoulder Dystocia
When the fetus's shoulder or shoulders get stuck inside the mother’s pelvis during delivery, it causes a birth injury complication called shoulder dystocia. Most of the time, the baby is born safely, and treatment may entail just moving the mother’s and baby's position during labor. However, failure to observe or correctly treat shoulder dystocia can lead to broken bones, 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 Ozark, MO birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT immediately.
Cephalohematoma
This birth injury occurs when blood gathers between a baby’s scalp and the skull as the result of damaged blood vessels during labor or delivery. You will observe a bump on your child’s head, which typically disappears in a few weeks. The condition is usually mild, however, there are a few uncommon problems that can surface. Cephalohematoma can increase your child’s risk of jaundice or anemia, and your baby may necessitate a blood transfusion or other treatments.
Bruising, Lacerations, Soft Tissue Injuries or Fractures
Bruises and cuts are usually minor birth injuries that heal quickly. Nevertheless, they lead to extra medical bills and unmerited stress for the parents. It is not uncommon that a baby can be bruised or cut by complications during birth. 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 harmed.
Clearly, broken bones are much more sever and can do much more harm. While a fracture during delivery can cause long-term or lifelong disability, usually they heal comparatively rapidy as infants are rapidly and constantly growing new bone. Regardless, a broken bone during labor leads to inconceivable pain for your child 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 care for you as the are obligated to, you might have a birth injury claim. Our birth injury attorneys will insist that you receive the compensation you and your, child deserve while holding the negligent doctor responsible.
Many times there are steps a Ozark, MO doctor should have implemented but neglected to, and other times the doctor improperly used delivery tools or applied too much force during the delivery. In that instance, it is essential to call our birth injury attorneys in Ozark, 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 suffered injuries during labor. The mother may experience substantial blood loss or other complications. In some cases, the mother is hurt because of a doctor’s substandard care. For example, high blood pressure before or during delivery can be evidence of preeclampsia, which can cause seizures. If you had a seizure while giving birth after a doctor failed to observe your high blood pressure, you are owed damages and our birth injury attorneys will insist that you are fairly compensated.
Emotional Injury
Not all damages in birth injury cases are quantifiable. If you or your child were hurt because of a negligent physician, then you have experienced undeserved worry, anxiety, devastation, shock and more. In the worst cases, you and your child may have to accept the possibility of your child never being able to take part in common Ozark, MO childhood activities or having special medical necessities 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 child are owed, you require accomplished birth injury attorneys in Ozark, 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 unrelated to medical negligence or substandard care. For instance, many Ozark, MO birth injuries happen 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 might not have been. That depends on your unique labor. Each patient and each birth is different so is each individual case.
Our Ozark, MO birth injury attorney at Burger Law has seen every type of birth injury case 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 Ozark, MO physicians and medical experts will help us understand the particulars of your case, calculate the value of your injuries and prove the medical professional’s negligence in providing 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 Ozark, MO medical institutions have what is called medical professional liability insurance, commonly known as medical malpractice insurance. Like any Ozark, MO insurance company, these insurers will try to bully, mislead, and defraud you with labyrinthine and misleading legal gibberish. The talented birth injury lawyers at Burger law will handle all communication and litigation for you and will fight back against bullies like resistant insurance companies to make sure they fulfill their obligation and give you the best possible compensation you are owed. Medical malpractice cases in Ozark, MO can be tough, but our birth injury attorneys have over two years of experience trying and winning birth injury claims and will get the evidence, proof, expert testimony and, eventually, the complete compensation you are entitled to.
In order to succeed in a medical malpractice suit, you must achieve 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 physician gave you a substandard level of care that a competent doctor in the same field would have provided you. Burger Law’s network of Ozark, MO physicians and medical experts will help understand if there was negligence, and prove it in your case.
- Get a letter of support. You will need to hire a Ozark, MO doctor or nurse in the same field—in this instance, neonatal care—to write an affidavit agreeing 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.
- 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 behavior or inaction directly caused the injury. You must have a Burger Law Ozark, MO birth injury lawyer you trust to help demonstrate how the doctor's negligence caused a birth injury that has hurt you and your child.
Burger law’s dedicated team of Ozark, MO-based birth injury attorneys will fight 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.
The Ozark, 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 baby received a birth injury, it is normal to feel an array of emotions: terrified, confused, infuriated and woebegone. If the birth injury is incurred 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 Ozark, MO birth injury lawyers will take up your claim and work tirelessly for you, from initial case review until we win your case. Allow us to 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.