We trust doctors everyday to make the right decisions, to use their skills, education and competence to ensure the best possible outcome for their patients. Healthcare professionals are bound, by both common sense and law, to uphold their profession’s standard of care. Receiving adequate medical care during childbirth is especially important.

Expectant parents wait with anticipation and excitement for the arrival of their child. Many of us can think of no greater joy than providing for our children the best, and brightest, future. As a baby’s due date approaches, the future seems nearly limitless.

But every year, tens of thousands of newborns sustain birth injuries during labor and delivery – often due to negligent medical care. Even brief lapses in judgment can have life-long consequences. A failure to communicate properly, or an overzealous tug on an infant’s arm, can leave children facing permanent disability.

Raising a child with developmental delays, cognitive impairments or a physical disability isn’t easy. Our attorneys have met with hundreds of families, most of whom struggle to cover astronomical medical expenses as they attempt to provide for their children the best possible life. Many of these parents face significant emotional battles themselves.

No matter the child, no matter the parent – each of these families deserves more support.

Our experienced medical negligence attorneys are devoted to protecting the rights of parents, families and, most importantly, children. If your child was injured because of a doctor, nurse or midwife’s negligence, your family may be eligible to receive financial compensation.

The goal is securing an adequate foundation for your child’s future. In a medical malpractice lawsuit, families often win compensation to cover:

• past, present and future medical expenses
• physical and occupational counseling
• mental health counseling and therapy
• in-home care services
• modifications to the home
• assistive technologies
• emotional trauma and hardship
• lost wages

Our goal is to ensure that your child’s future remains bright.

From conception to delivery, parents depend on the compassionate, skilled work of trusted medical professionals to safeguard the health of their developing child. It takes a team, from general practitioners and obstetricians to nurses and diagnostic technicians. Every day, doctors and nurses must rely on their experience, education and better judgment to make the right choices for families. Identifying the best treatment options, diagnosing medical conditions properly and intervening during critical emergencies are a must – both for mother and child.

But mistakes can be made.

When physicians, obstetricians and nurses make the wrong choice, or fail to intervene appropriately, infants can sustain severe injuries. Sometimes, these failures to properly administer medical care amount to what attorneys call medical malpractice – and become grounds for a lawsuit.

When a child’s life is on the line, we can expect doctors and other healthcare professionals to uphold a certain standard within their profession. We’re not asking for ideal obstetricians, or the best physician in the world – just reasonable, competent practitioners who don’t unnecessarily harm our kids. But that’s not always who we get.

Medical negligence is what happens when a doctor’s actions – or failures to act – fall below the standard of care, and a child suffers birth injuries. This concept is crucial to every medical malpractice lawsuit, but winning a case is more difficult.

To secure compensation, every family will need to demonstrate three things:

1. A healthcare professional owed the child a legal duty of care
2. The healthcare professional violated that duty, acting or failing to act in ways that a similarly reasonable, competent professional would not have
3. That violation of the standard of care caused the child to suffer harm

Those three requirements may seem simple, but in practice, a birth injury attorney will need extensive knowledge of both law and medicine to ensure a family’s best chances at success.

Perhaps most importantly, the work of expert medical professionals will be critical. Working in tandem with expert witnesses, an experienced birth injury lawyer will come to define the standard of care that should have been followed during labor or delivery – and identify how the practicing physician, nurse or hospital broke that duty of care.