Birth Injury Lawyer

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

Birth injuries are devastating events than can affect entire families for the rest of their lives. If your child is born with cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy, or another birth injury, contact the Berkowitz Law Firm for help. Our birth injury lawyers and staff serve as tireless advocates for infants and families that are affected by birth injuries. We fight aggressively, yet with compassion for our clients’ situations, and will do whatever we can to ensure the responsible parties are held accountable for their actions.

What is a Birth Injury?

Any injury that occurs shortly before, during, or immediately after childbirth can be characterized as a birth injury. There are several factors that can contribute to the development of a birth injury, including the amount of pressure felt by the baby during delivery, prolonged labor, premature birth, the size of the mother’s pelvis, and doctor mistakes. When a doctor or nurse fails to detect fetal distress, fails to perform a C-section when necessary, or fails to provide proper care during the birth process, he or she should be held responsible.

The birth injury lawyers at the Berkowitz Law Firm are equipped with the knowledge, skill and resources to handle the most complicated birth injury cases. We recognize that birth injuries impact our clients’ lives forever, and we fight tirelessly to get them the compensation they need to provide their injured baby with the highest quality treatment and care.

Types of Birth Injuries

Injuries can range from minor to severe. Some of the more common injuries such as bruising, swelling and bone fractures are not serious and will usually heal within a couple weeks. The more severe injuries that can affect the child for the rest of his/her life include:

  • Cerebral palsy
  • Erb’s palsy (brachial plexus injury)
  • Facial paralysis
  • Skull fractures
  • Bleeding in the brain
  • Deformed or missing limbs
  • Organ damage

How a Birth Injury Lawyer Can Help

Having a baby is one of the most special times in a person’s life. Finding out that something went wrong is devastating, especially if it could have been prevented. At the Berkowitz Law Firm, we help affected families by digging deep beneath the surface and working with experts to determine exactly what went wrong. We are not afraid to stand up to the largest hospitals and their insurance companies, and will fight to ensure affected families receive the full amount of compensation they are entitled to.

While a financial recovery may not be able to reverse that damage that has been done, it can help ensure the best in treatment and care for a disabled or disfigured child. If your baby is suffering because of an injury at childbirth, we would like the chance to help you. Contact our Connecticut birth injury lawyers for help 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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