Birth Injuries
Every obstetrician and all labor room staff should be prepared to help a fetus in distress. When the doctors or nurses fail to act quickly and appropriately, their negligence can result in a birth injury that affects a child’s entire life. At Jacobs & Jacobs, our medical malpractice lawyers have the experience to handle birth injury claims.

When a birth injury is caused by medical negligence, you need an attorney who has the knowledge, experience, and financial resources for a medical malpractice lawsuit.

At Jacobs & Jacobs, we have built a solid reputation for helping families faced with a child’s life-changing birth injury. We have the experience and resources to handle complex birth injury suits involving catastrophic injury, and wrongful death of the child or mother.

  • Investigation by medical experts: Because our attorneys collaborate with medical experts throughout the nation, we are able to find experts with the experience necessary for a particular case. Did the doctors, hospital and staff follow accepted standards of care? Could the injury have been prevented?
  • Life-care planning: What care will a child’s birth injury require? Our law firm consults with lifecare planners to assess the child’s special needs — surgery, medical care, adaptive equipment, attendant care, special education, rehabilitation. We also consult with economists to determine the costs of care over the child’s expected lifetime.
  • Talking to a jury: Because we have taken so many cases to trial, we know how to explain complex medical cases to juries. We use technology — including day-in-the-life videos — to make clear the medical mistakes and explain the consequences for the baby and family.
  • Types of injuries: When doctors and nurses fail to monitor a fetus and do not respond quickly to any sign of distress, any number of injuries can result: cerebral palsy from lack of oxygen, failure to perform a C-section to avoid a traumatic delivery, Erb’s palsy or shoulder dystocia (brachial plexus injury) caused by a traumatic delivery, or developmental delays caused by lack of oxygen.

One or more of the following issues may be improtant to your case:

You are welcome to call 866-668-7179 or e-mail our law firm to talk about your child’s birth injury. If you cannot come to the office, we will come to your hospital room or home. We want to help you and your family through this.

January 13, 2012 at 11:38 pm | | Leave a comment