Birth Injury Attorneys Washington, MO

Birth Injury Attorneys in Washington, MO. After the trauma of a birth injury, you need an experienced lawyer you can trust and lean on to fight for your family in this horrible time. Contact the birth injury attorneys of Burger Law in Washington, MO right away at (314) 500-HURT to discuss your birth injury case for free and learn what we will do to help you be awarded the best possible compensation for your damages. 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 at any time during or shortly after your pregnancy, it can be upsetting and gut-wrenching. It can be incredibly infuriating when the birth injury occurred due to negligent or improper medical care. If your child has been harmed because of a doctor’s breach of care, Burger Law’s Washington, MO team of birth injury lawyers will fight on your behalf to win the financial recovery you and your family are entitled to to secure you and your loved ones’ future and start on the road to recovery. Call our Washington, 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 Washington, MO

About six to eight out of 1,000 children born in the United States suffer a severe birth injury, which equals about one in every 9,714 children and 28,000 births a year. Birth injuries are responsible for around two percent of neonatal deaths. Such injuries can include fractures or disorders that affect a child's development or cognition.

Many Washington, MO attorneys may have seen some medical malpractice suits, but possibly not birth injury cases or with the particular birth injury you or your child sustained. Our Burger Law birth injury lawyers have seen every category of birth injury and know every type of birth injury case, and you can be confident that we will fight on your behalf until you get the best possible.

Do I Need a Washington, MO Birth Injury Lawyer?

If you believe that you or your child was hurt due to a doctor’s negligence or substandard care, then you need to pursue the aid of accomplished birth injury attorneys in Washington, MO. Rearing a child in Washington, MO already comes with a plethora of expenses 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 because of a doctor’s negligence or careless actions. You deserve to be thinking about when your child will outgrow their jacket, not when they will outgrow their wheelchair because a doctor disregarded the rules.

The talented Washington, MO birth injury attorneys at Burger Law will work out your complete damages, including the dollar figure of any probable future medical costs and other expenses and damages. Your committed birth injury attorney will fight until you receive a complete and fair recovery.

Whatever your child’s circumstances, you want to focus on supplying your child with nourishment and joy, not scrambling to navigate a maze of complicated legal procedures. When you reach out to our birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT, we start working on your case right away to get you the best possible results. We oversee all the documentation, communication and litigation so you can spend your energy on you and your child’s physical and emotional well-being. Our accomplished birth injury lawyers will maximize your compensation and get you and your family on the road 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 comparatively quickly. Whether or not the injury is minor or leads to lifelong disability, you are owed maximum compensation for your medical costs, pain and suffering and other damages if the injury occurred because a doctor or medical institution in Washington, MO did not respect 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 movement disorder and the most common form of birth injury that affects about 4 in 1,000 children. There are three categories 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 might have an awkward gait but does not need any particular assistance – or more serious, and your child may necessitate special equipment to walk or not be able to walk at all. Diagnosing and treating cerebral palsy involves closely monitoring your child’s development, and that can include exhaustive medical appointments, costly evaluations and special equipment to help your child walk or complete other daily functions. The Washington, MO-based birth injury lawyers at Burger Law fight until the negligent 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 possible 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 take place 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 adequately 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 Washington, MO birth injury attorneys will tackle your suit and make sure you receive the full recovery you are owed. If you are nervous that your child is not meeting movement achievements and think they may have cerebral palsy, it is imperative to immediately reach out to 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 examination if your child is less than three years old. If your child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy and you suspect a medical professional in Washington, MO is responsible, call Burger Law straight away at (314) 500-HURT for your free case evaluation with a professional Washington, MO birth injury attorney, and start on the journey to getting maximum compensation and safeguarding the future of you and your family.

Brachial Plexus Injuries and Erb’s Palsy

Brachial plexus injuries are a category of birth injury that happens as a result of damage to the brachial plexus – the network of nerves in the shoulder that is in charge of movement and sensation in the arms and hands – during birth. It impedes the movement of the arm and shoulder. This is caused by excessive stretching around the shoulder, neck or head during birth, ordinarily when the baby’s head is stretched to the side. This can take place because the baby was very large, abnormal birthing presentations such as buttocks first or because a doctor pulled to hard and too long on the infant during delivery. Erb’s Palsy is a type of brachial plexus injury where the upper extremities are weak and unable to move normally. Some severe cases involve the tearing of the nerves and can result in permanent nerve damage. Fortunately, in most cases, the baby will regain range of motion within a few months, and there are specific exercises you can practice with your child to help retain range of motion as he or she is recovering. Regardless of the extent of the injury or and the price of the medical treatment, the Washington, MO birth injury lawyers at Burger Law will make certain that you receive maximum compensation and that the careless party’s insurance company pays every penny they owe.

Shoulder Dystocia

When the baby’s shoulder or shoulders cannot easily pass through the mother during delivery, it leads to a birth injury complication called shoulder dystocia. In the majority of cases, the baby is born safely, and treatment may entail simply moving the mother’s and fetus’s position during birth. However, neglecting 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, contact our Washington, MO birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT immediately.

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 child’s head, which usually disappears after a few weeks. The condition is usually mild, but, there are a few rare issues that can come up. 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 most often minor birth injuries that heal rapidly. However, they lead to extra medical expenses and unmerited anxiety for the parents. Oftentimes a baby can be bruised or cut by complications in the birth process. For example, if the baby is too large for the mother or the delivery takes a long time, the baby spends too much time pushed up against the mother’s pelvis and can be injured.

Obviously, broken bones are much more grave and can do much more harm. While broken bones during birth can lead to long-term or lifelong disability, usually they heal relatively quickly as babies are rapidly and perpetually developing new bone. Regardless, a fracture during birth results in unthinkable pain for your infant and mental distress for you. The delivering doctor must note the conditions of birth and take measures to protect the mother and child from harm. When the doctor does not behave as the are required to, you could have a birth injury claim. Our birth injury attorneys will insist that you collect the recovery you and your, loved one deserve while holding the negligent doctor accountable.

Occasionally there are measures a Washington, MO doctor should have implemented but did not, and other times the doctor improperly used delivery tools or used too much force during birth. In that instance, it is imperative to contact our birth injury attorneys in Washington, MO straight away to go through your options. Contact us today for a complimentary consultation.

Injury to the Mother

Sometimes, the mother or both the mother and child were injured during delivery. The mother may experience heavy 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 birth can indicate preeclampsia, which can result in seizures. If you had a seizure while giving birth after a physician neglected to notice your high blood pressure, you are entitled to damages and our birth injury attorneys will insist that 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 unmerited worry, anxiety, heartbreak, trauma and more. In the worst cases, you and your child may have to confront the possibility of your child never being able to take part in normal Washington, MO childhood games or needing special medical needs for the rest of their life. Getting maximum compensation for your pain and suffering and mental anguish is an important step in making you whole again. In order to get the best possible compensation you and your family are entitled to, you require talented birth injury attorneys in Washington, 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 example, many Washington, 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 may not have been. That depends on your unique situation. Each patient and each birth is different and individual cases vary greatly.

Our Washington, MO birth injury attorney at Burger Law has experience with every variety of birth injury suit and will help you decide if the standard of care you received is less than that which a competent doctor would have given you. Our network of Washington, MO physicians and medical experts will help us understand the particulars of your claim, determine the value of your injuries and prove the doctor’s negligence in affording you and your child substandard care so that we can get you maximum compensation to make you and your child whole.

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

Physicians, healthcare professionals and Washington, MO medical institutions have what is called medical professional liability insurance, otherwise known as medical malpractice insurance. Like any Washington, MO insurance company, these insurers will try to bully, trick, and swindle you with serpentine and misleading legal vernacular. The shrewd 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 make sure they fulfill their duty and give you the maximum compensation you deserve. Medical malpractice cases in Washington, MO can be hard, but our birth injury attorneys have over twenty years of experience trying and winning birth injury suits and will acquire the evidence, proof, expert testimony and, eventually, the complete compensation you are owed.

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

1. Assign 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 doctor gave you a substandard level of care that a competent physician in the same field would have given you. Burger Law’s network of Washington, MO physicians and medical experts will help determine if there was negligence, and prove it in your case.
2. Get a affidavit of support. You will need to hire a Washington, 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 obtain your letter of support.
3. 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 at fault, and you will have to prove that the doctor’s behavior or inaction directly led to the harm. You require a Burger Law Washington, 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 Washington, MO-based birth injury attorneys will stand by your side throughout the entire process and take care of all the legal work for you so you can spend your energy on the well-being of you and your child.

The Washington, 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.

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Call Our St. Louis Birth Injury Attorneys Today

If your baby sustained a birth injury, it is expected to feel an array of emotions: terrified, confused, angry and grief-stricken. 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 resolute Washington, MO birth injury lawyers will take up your lawsuit and work endlessly for you, from our first case review until we win your claim. Allow us to 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.