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As a parent, the most important thing to you is your child. Normally, childbirth is a nerve-wracking, yet exciting experience, and at its conclusion, parents have a healthy baby they can’t wait to take home. Unfortunately, sometimes tragic birth injuries occur, and at times, these injuries are the result of negligent medical professionals and could have been prevented. If your child was harmed during birth, our compassionate, knowledgeable, and highly skilled team of birth injury lawyers is here to help you make a recovery that will provide you with the resources you need to ensure your child’s well-being is preserved.
A child sustaining an injury at birth is the worst-case scenario. Birth injuries are estimated to affect roughly 6 to 7 of every 1,000 births in the United States, and most are classified as moderate to severe. Some of those injuries are permanent. If your child was harmed because of a careless medical professional, such as a nurse or an OBGYN, you can have confidence in our Bergen County, New Jersey medical malpractice lawyer to help hold the right parties accountable.
For an injury sustained at birth, New Jersey does not give you until the child turns 18. Under N.J.S.A. 2A:14-2, the claim must generally be filed before the child’s 13th birthday. Because these cases require expert review of the delivery records before a complaint is ever filed, waiting is the single most common way a strong claim is lost.
Helping deliver a baby is no easy task, and a variety of things can go wrong when physicians don’t respond properly to certain scenarios. Just some of the most common causes of injuries during childbirth are as follows:
Just as there are several things that can potentially go wrong during the birthing process, there are several injuries that can result from negligence or malpractice. Some of the most common birth injuries are as follows:
To win compensation in a medical malpractice claim, we’ll have to prove that the physician in question owed you a duty of care, breached that duty of care by behaving negligently, and that the negligent act resulted in a significant injury to you or your child. As long as we can satisfy the burden of proof in your injury claim, you should receive compensation for the following:
Some conditions arise from genetics, infection, or prematurity with no negligence involved. The question is whether the care fell below accepted standards and caused the harm. Answering it requires an obstetric expert, which is why we obtain and review the fetal monitoring strips and delivery records before advising you.
We understand that financial compensation cannot truly right the wrongs of a medical professional in this circumstance, but it can help ensure your child gets the resources he or she needs. If you have any questions or believe you have a valid claim, please don’t hesitate to contact the experienced and compassionate birth injury lawyers here at Feitlin, Youngman, Karas & Gerson, LLC today to schedule your free consultation. There is no fee unless we recover for your family.
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