The Best Birth Injury Lawyers

HOW CAN BIRTH INJURY ATTORNEYS HELP?

Negligent medical care during child delivery often requires the expertise of birth injury attorneys. Whether by vaginal delivery or C-section, these actions can cause devastating injuries to the baby. A child injured during birth may require life-long care, including rehabilitation, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and nursing and home care. Like all medical negligence cases, those involving birth or obstetrical injuries are generally complex in nature and full of opportunities for negligent healthcare providers to avoid taking responsibility.

The injury attorneys at Davis Adams diligently discover the important facts, retain world-class expert witnesses, and methodically prepare birth injury cases for trial in a way that maximizes the opportunity for a verdict that provides justice for our clients.

WHAT ARE SOME COMMON TYPES OF BIRTH INJURIES?

Birth injuries take many different forms, but as birth injury lawyers, the cases we most frequently handle involve:

• birth trauma resulting from improper use of forceps or suction (including shoulder dystocia)
• vaginal birth after a C-section, resulting in a ruptured uterus and possible death or hysterectomy
• delay in the diagnosis of fetal distress, despite fetal monitoring information
• delay in performing a C-section
• brain injuries resulting from lack of oxygen (brain hypoxia) or spinal cord damage
• cerebral palsy resulting from medical errors
• premature birth resulting from a urinary tract infection, incompetent cervix or other condition that could have been treated
• necrotizing enterocolitis (bowel infection), bleeding in the brain or lung problems resulting from an unnecessary premature birth
• failure to monitor a mother with gestational diabetes
• failure to identify macrosomia, a condition where the baby’s head and shoulders are too large to pass through the birth canal
• spinal cord injuries
• maternal Group B strep infection

If you, your child, or a loved one have suffered injuries as a result of a birth or obstetrical injury, we can obtain the necessary medical records and have an expert physician review the injuries file free of charge to determine whether a doctor or other healthcare provider was negligent.

WHAT IS THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR BIRTH INJURY LAWSUITS?

Typically, the statute of limitation for a child birth injury lawsuit in Georgia is just two years from the date of their care. However, certain circumstances may expand the statute of limitation (for instance, when a supplier reaches negligent care that’s discovered at a later time).

Other scenarios can entail shorter time periods within which a case must be pursued (for instance, if the negligent provider is a government employee, it can trigger a claim notification deadline as short as six months). Additionally, situations like the misplacement of a foreign object within a patient due to a C-section or surgical error, have special statutes of limitation, particularly one-year from the date that the object is found.

Basically, it depends. Try not to attempt to ascertain the statute of limitation contact experienced child birth injury attorneys and we’ll be happy to collect and analyze the details of the injuries required to offer you the response that is right.

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