Birth Injury Lawyer, San Diego
A serious birth injury can leave a child with a disability or medical conditions that will require lifelong medical care. Extensive medical care may be necessary not only immediately after the birth, but for many years to come. What can a parent do in the face of this devastating situation? What can be done to hold the doctor or other medical professional liable for your child's injuries?
Our birth injury lawyers in our San Diego law firm are compassionate and caring attorneys who can assist your family to obtain the proper medical care for your child, as well as holding the doctor's accountable for their negligence. Birth injury can be caused by mistakes made by doctors, nurses, medical professionals, or hospitals. If your child has been seriously injured due to a birth injury, we are ready to help you.
Our San Diego birth injury attorneys have helped many families of children with
cerebral palsy, Erbs palsy, mental retardation, seizures, and other injuries that have occurred during birth. We know that children with cerebral palsy and other serious birth injuries require special treatment, occupational therapy, medication and attendant care. With our specialized knowledge of birth trauma and cerebral palsy, we can often prove that doctors were negligent in failing to prevent such injury and brain damage. If you are a parent with a special needs child, there are many resources which may be able to provide you help.
If your baby suffered injuries before, during or after birth, our injury accident attorneys may be able to help. Our
San Diego birth injury attorneys work with medical specialists and experts to identify the negligence and cause of the birth injury. Our San Diego birth injury lawyers will analyze electronic fetal heart rate monitoring tapes, and fetal PH scalp sampling, to determine if your infant was properly monitored during the birth process.
The injury accident attorneys in our San Diego law firm have represented numerous birth injury cases caused by negligence in the delivery process. Mistakes which we have been involved in include where doctors and hospitals improperly anticipate the child's size during delivery resulting in a difficult delivery with too much force being applied to the infant during the birth process as a result. Other reasons injuries occurs to infants are as follows:
- Improper use of forceps or vacuum extractor
- Failure to timely respond to emergencies, such as the mother hemorrhaging
- Refusal or delay in performing a cesarean section
- Placentia Abruption
- Difficulties in a breech delivery wherein the baby cannot move through the birth canal and is breeched
- Other delivery complications and lack of care immediately after birth
The injuries to your baby are devastating emotionally as well as financially. Our expert birth injury lawyers are committed to protecting the rights of your baby and your family. Call our
San Diego birth injury lawyers for help.
Other cities we also serve: San Diego, Carlsbad, San Marcos, Alpine, Camp Pendleton, La Jolla, and other San Diego County cities.