Cherry Hill Birth Injury Lawyer

Birth injury care in Cherry Hill and South Jersey

Cherry Hill families deliver across a South Jersey hospital network anchored by Virtua and Cooper, and when something goes wrong, the case is governed by New Jersey rules that reward acting early. Most local births happen at Virtua Voorhees Hospital, the region’s busiest maternity center, with additional deliveries at Virtua’s Mount Holly campus and at Jefferson Health New Jersey hospitals in Cherry Hill, Stratford, and Washington Township. The area’s highest-acuity care sits ten minutes west: Cooper University Hospital in Camden, a state-designated regional perinatal center whose maternal-fetal medicine service and high-level NICU receive South Jersey’s most dangerous pregnancies and sickest newborns, often as transfers from the very hospitals where local babies are born.

That referral pattern is the first practical fact of a Cherry Hill case: if your baby was moved to Cooper (or to CHOP across the river in Philadelphia), the record of what happened is split between institutions, and a review that reads only one chart is incomplete.

The New Jersey rules that shape a Cherry Hill case

Four rules do most of the work, all covered in depth on our New Jersey birth injury lawyer page:

• The age-13 deadline. A claim for injuries sustained at birth must generally be filed before the child’s 13th birthday (N.J.S.A. 2A:14-2(b)); New Jersey abolished ordinary minority tolling for birth injuries.
• The parents’ two years. The parents’ own claim is not tolled and generally expires two years after the injury.
• The affidavit of merit. A specialty-matched physician must attest to the case’s merit early in the litigation (N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-27); the expert review comes before everything else.
• The charitable immunity nuance. A nonprofit hospital’s own negligence liability is capped at $250,000, but individual physicians, midwives, and nurses are not capped, so identifying every responsible provider is what protects the child’s recovery.

The injuries that most often warrant this work are the familiar, time-sensitive ones: HIE after delayed delivery, cerebral palsy traced to oxygen deprivation at birth, and kernicterus from untreated newborn jaundice. And the honest caveat applies here as everywhere: not every birth injury is malpractice; the records decide.

The Weitz Firm’s New Jersey office is in Cherry Hill

Cherry Hill is not just a market this alliance serves — it is where our New Jersey practice lives. The Weitz Firm, LLC — 220 Lake Drive East, Suite 210, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 · (888) 979-4274. Max Morgan has been licensed in New Jersey since 2013 (Bar ID 062552013), earned his J.D. magna cum laude at Rutgers Law School in nearby Camden, and concentrates on catastrophic medical negligence, including cerebral palsy and kernicterus birth injury cases. Camden County cases are filed at the Superior Court in Camden, minutes from both the office and Cooper’s campus.

Frequently asked questions

My baby was born at Virtua and transferred to Cooper. Whose records do I request?

Both. Virtua holds the labor-and-delivery chart and fetal monitoring strips; Cooper holds the NICU admission workup that often documents the injury in detail. You are entitled to copies of each, and a complete review requires both.

We delivered at CHOP in Philadelphia. Does New Jersey law still apply?

Not necessarily; care delivered in Pennsylvania generally implicates Pennsylvania law, with different (and in some ways more forgiving) deadlines. Max Morgan is licensed in both states, so the case can be evaluated under whichever law actually governs. See our Pennsylvania page.

How soon should we act?

Before deadlines force the issue. The child’s claim generally runs to age 13 in New Jersey, but the parents’ claim expires around two years, and monitoring strips and staff memories degrade fastest in the first months.

Sources

This page is for general education and is not legal advice; reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Confirm current law and your exact deadlines with a licensed New Jersey attorney.