Editorial Policy

What this site is for

Birth Injury Advocate exists to give parents accurate, cited, plain-language information about birth injuries, medical and legal, before asking for anything in return. Our readers are usually parents in the hardest weeks of their lives, and the content standard follows from that: every medical term is defined the first time it appears, every factual claim traces to a source, and nothing on this site is written to pressure anyone. This policy explains how we hold ourselves to that.

Where our medical facts come from

Medical statements on this site are drawn from primary sources: clinical guidelines and publications of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its institutes such as NINDS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and peer-reviewed medical journals such as Pediatrics and The New England Journal of Medicine.

Our sourcing rules:

• If we cannot cite it, we do not claim it. Statistics, treatment thresholds, and clinical standards must trace to a named primary source.
• Sources are visible. Every medical page carries a numbered source list identifying the publication, authors where applicable, and year.
• We do not cite other law firms’ websites as medical authority, and we do not cite ourselves.
• Legal claims are sourced too. State-law statements (filing deadlines, damage rules, procedural requirements), cite the relevant statutes by number, and are checked by an attorney before publication.

Who reviews every page

Every substantive page is reviewed by both alliance attorneys before publication: Laurence P. Banville, Esq. (licensed in New York, ID 4725149, and Washington, D.C., ID 1033393) and attorney Max Morgan (licensed in Pennsylvania, ID 316096, and New Jersey, ID 062552013). Their review covers the legal accuracy of every legal statement and the faithfulness of every medical statement to its cited source.

We do not use a medical reviewer, and we say so plainly. Some legal websites display a physician’s name to borrow credibility. We have chosen not to do that. Instead, we compensate the honest way: medical content on this site makes no claim that does not come from a cited primary medical source, and the citations are on the page for you, or your child’s doctor, to check.

How review dates work

Every reviewed page displays a “Last reviewed” date. That date means both attorneys examined the page in its current form on or about that date. Pages are re-reviewed when the underlying facts change: for example, when a clinical guideline is revised (as the AAP’s hyperbilirubinemia guideline was in 2022) or a state changes its filing deadlines, and when a reader or reviewer flags a possible error.

Settlement figures and case results

Money is where legal marketing most often misleads families, so our rules here are strict:

• Settlement and verdict figures on this site are publicly reported results with source attribution: the court, jurisdiction, or publication that reported them.
• We do not publish “average settlement” figures as if they predicted any family’s outcome, and we do not invent numbers.
• Results attributed to our own firms are published only after internal verification, on our case results page, with the required caveat: prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
• We never publish fabricated testimonials or reviews. Client reviews appear only when verified and permitted.

Corrections

We correct errors promptly, and without burying them. If you believe anything on this site is inaccurate, outdated, or unclear, we want to know, whether you are a parent, a clinician, or an attorney. Corrections that are more than typographical are made after attorney review, and material corrections are noted on the affected page along with the updated review date.

Medical-advice disclaimer

This site provides general educational information, not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for consultation with your child’s physician. Reading this site does not create an attorney-client relationship. And a statement we repeat throughout our content because it is true: not every birth injury is malpractice. Some injuries occur despite entirely proper care. Whether negligence played a role in any individual case can only be answered by reviewing that child’s medical records.