Birth Injuries

If your child suffered an injury at birth, please call birth injury lawyer Russell Berkowitz of the Berkowitz Law Firm for help. To schedule an evaluation of your case, please call 1-866-314-9352 and ask for Mr. Berkowitz.

Birth injuries can have devastating and permanent consequences, including cerebral palsy, brain damage, and various other conditions. The Berkowitz Law Firm understands the trauma that comes with a birth injury—the heartache and challenges that a family with a birth-injured child experiences. We're here to help.

Substandard Medical Care

Birth injuries happen to thousands of newborns every year in the U.S.; about 27 of every 1,000 births, in fact. Many of the injuries could have been prevented by proper medical monitoring and procedures. Unfortunately, physicians, nurses, midwives, anesthesiologists, and other healthcare staff sometimes make mistakes or provide substandard medical care.

A Broad Spectrum of Birth Injuries

Any type of damage to a baby's body before, during, or soon after birth is considered a birth injury. There is a broad spectrum of birth injuries, ranging from mild or temporary damage to injuries severe enough to cause a fatality. Some of the most prevalent birth injuries include:

Causes of Birth Injuries

There are circumstances in which a birth injury is unavoidable, but there are many ways that an obstetrician, midwife, or other medical staff could make a mistake or act negligently while delivering a baby, including:

  • improper birthing techniques
  • deprivation of oxygen
  • failure to respond to delivery complications appropriately or in a timely manner
  • failure to identify and treat conditions such as Rh incompatibility, a maternal or fetal infection, or maternal diabetes
  • delegation of an important procedure to an inexperienced junior staff member
  • a delay in performing a necessary Cesarean section delivery
  • miscalculating the size of the baby, causing a traumatic delivery
  • use of excessive force during the delivery
  • mishandling the baby's skull

Speak to a Medical Malpractice Lawyer

If a birth injury has harmed your child and you think that the injury may have been preventable, you should contact a law firm with the medical knowledge and experience to address your concerns.

Click here to contact a Connecticut birth injury lawyer at The Berkowitz Law Firm in Stamford, Connecticut or Danbury, CT today.

  • $9,000,000.00 medical malpractice recovery against an obstetrician and a hospital whose failure to timely deliver the infant plaintiff, despite signs of fetal distress, left her severely brain damaged.
  • $6,100,000.00 settlement against a hospital and two physicians on behalf of a client who sustained permanent paralysis following the administration of anesthesia and prior to undergoing an anterior cervical discectomy.
  • $4,750,000.00 medical malpractice award on behalf of a child who sustained brain damage as a result of a hospital's negligent airway management.
  • $4,000,000.00 medical malpractice verdict against a gynecologist who caused the plaintiff to undergo a hysterectomy following a negligent surgical procedure and destroyed her ability to bear children.
  • $3,000,000.00 medical malpractice recovery against an anesthesiologist whose negligent administration of spinal anesthesia left an infant plaintiff profoundly brain damaged.
  • $3,000,000.00 medical malpractice settlement on behalf of a brain damaged newborn against a hospital as a result of the hospital's failure to timely deliver said newborn despite signs and symptoms of fetal distress.
  • $2,600,000.00 wrongful death verdict against a family practitioner and a urologist whose failure to timely diagnose prostate cancer led to the plaintiff's death.
  • $2,500,000.00 settlement against a radiologist for his failure to timely diagnose the plaintiff's spinal tumor which progressed to metastatic late stage cancer.
  • $2,450,000.00 total award against a hospital for its failure to properly restrain a hospital psychiatric patient who jumped out of a hospital window and fell three stories sustaining a permanent brain injury.
  • $2,300,000.00 medical malpractice settlement against a hospital following its failure to diagnose a bacterial infection causing a child to go into respiratory arrest and without oxygen for 20 minutes leading to the child's brain damage.

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