An attorney can help you demand justice and accountability
If your child was injured due to medical negligence during birth, you deserve answers. One of the most important reasons to engage a birth injury attorney is to get to the bottom of what happened. We have extensive experience investigating birth injuries and holding negligent doctors and hospitals accountable.
Whenever possible, it’s best to start the investigation early, as soon as you know something is wrong. That said, even if you didn’t notice the warning signs of a birth injury until many months or years after your child’s birth, you may still have a case. Give us a call or contact us online for a free consultation.
Tracking down witnesses
When a child is injured during birth, there are often a dozen or more witnesses who may have pertinent information. For instance, if your baby was born by caesarean section, the surgical team alone probably consisted of 10 or more people, including the OB/GYN, anesthesiologist, residents, nurses, technicians, and other staff. More complicated deliveries may involve larger teams and more professionals, such as physicians in other specialties, blood bank personnel, and others. Every one of those people may have information relevant to your case.
While vaginal deliveries are less complex, there are still multiple medical professionals involved in caring for mother and baby before, during, and after birth. There’s also the OB/GYN or other medical professional(s) who provided prenatal care, who may or may not have been involved in the delivery. If your child was in the NICU, the physicians and nurses who cared for them during that time may also have important information.
The sooner we start our investigation, the easier it will be to locate and talk to all these witnesses. Over time, people change jobs and move away. They may also forget what they saw and heard. The longer you wait, the harder it can be to find out what happened and who was responsible.
Establishing the nature and extent of the injury
Again, the closer you are in time to your child’s injury, the easier it is to get to the bottom of what happened, including identifying the injury itself. The more time passes, the easier it might be for the defendant doctor or hospital to argue that something else happened in the intervening time to cause your child’s symptoms, and the tougher it could be for your medical experts to reconstruct how your child was hurt.
Getting an attorney involved early means we can hire the right experts to review your child’s medical records, identify their symptoms, and piece together when and how they were hurt. That makes it easier to hold the negligent parties accountable. It may also help determine your child’s medical needs and get the treatment and intervention they need.
Contact us today for a free, confidential consultation
The Lancione Law Firm has the experience and resources to conduct thorough investigations and build strong cases on behalf of birth injury victims and their families. It’s an approach that gets results, including a $14.2 million recovery for a baby girl with brain damage and cerebral palsy.
If your child was injured before, during, and shortly after birth, and you believe medical negligence was the cause, you deserve answers. Give us a call or contact us online to schedule your free, confidential consultation.