Northern Virginia Birth Injuries

Serious injuries deserve experienced attorneys

Whether an individual or couple felt like they were ready for their new baby’s arrival or not, no one is ever ready for their newborn to suffer an injury that warrants the help of a birth injury lawyer Northern Virginia residents can turn to in difficult times.

Before a new baby arrives, some people spend 1-10 months of planning and anticipating; some people spend somewhere around this amount of time being just plain scared; and others experience a whole other wide gamut of feelings, impulses and emotions. While some people do worry about having a healthy baby prior to getting pregnant or at the onset, some people do not. It does not matter whether you have spent your whole life preparing and praying to have a healthy baby, or just hoped that you would survive the birth itself when you found out you were going to be a parent. Nothing really prepares a parent for their baby to be anything less than healthy and fine when they emerge from the womb.

No amount of planning, practicing and counseling can prepare a new parent, grandparent, or sibling for their new bundle of joy to be anything less than okay. While sometimes there is nothing that can be done for a baby who is not okay during birth, many times there are. Many times, delivery room doctors and their staff perform seeming miracles when a family hears the first cry of their new baby. An unfortunate reality is that some families do not experience this because many babies suffer injuries that were preventable because of a doctor or other medical practitioner’s negligence.

If you are facing the horrible reality that your baby is suffering from injuries sustained at birth and do not know who to turn to for advice, contact the compassionate team at Cohen & Cohen for a free case evaluation. If we do not have lawyers who are able to give you top notch representation, we want to help you find some who are. If you are looking for a birth injury lawyer Northern Virginia families can get legal counsel from, call us any time of the day or night, any time of the year.

A birth injury is a form of medical malpractice. Something that can be tricky to prove in many medical malpractice cases is that a doctor was negligent in their care towards his or her patient. It needs to be proven that a doctor made a mistake and the basic standard of acceptable care was not met. It must be proven that another doctor in the same situation would not have made the same mistake. Hospitals and insurance companies will do anything in their power to prove that the mistake that caused a birth injury is excusable and they have vast amounts of resources with which to do this.

Many babies that suffer birth injuries have lifelong disabilities that require increased medical expenses. It is important to start fighting as a soon as possible for compensation to protect your child and your family’s rights.

If you are in the unfortunate situation of having a baby with a birth injury, contact Cohen & Cohen today to talk to a top rated birth injury lawyer Northern Virginia is fortunate to have in its midst.

Northern Virginia Birth Injury Attorney Services

A “birth injury” is defined as any damage done to the tissues and organs of a child as the result of complications during childbirth. These birth injuries can also be the result of a poor decision made by a doctor or other health care provider during delivery. Some of these poor decisions include: failing to detect an umbilical cord wrapped around the baby’s neck, unreasonable delay in performing an emergency Caesarean section, and misdiagnosis of conditions during pregnancy. Often, injuries during birth cause life-long disabilities, both mental and physical, that can have profound impacts on the families who have to care for the child.

Birth injury is a form of medical malpractice, so doctor negligence needs to be proved in order to make a claim. Doctors make tough judgment calls every day, and, unfortunately, a doctor does not hold liability for every bad outcome that occurs on his or her watch. This is one reason birth injury cases, like all medical malpractice cases, can be so difficult. These cases require proof that the doctor made a mistake that another doctor in the same situation would not have made. In most birth injury cases the hospital will do anything they can to prove that the mistake that caused a birth injury is excusable.

It is not uncommon for a birth injury to result in a life-long disability for the child. These disabilities often mean increased medical expenses for rehabilitation, special care and special equipment for the child, and caring for a child with a disability can be mentally taxing for family members as well. If your child has suffered from an injury caused at birth, the birth injury lawyers at Cohen & Cohen are here to help you. Our birth injury attorneys have decades of experience litigating birth injury and other medical malpractice cases in Northern Virginia and throughout the Washington DC region. We know that these large, complex, often difficult cases are built on facts – facts that prove a doctor or other health care provider violated the standard of care. If your child has suffered an injury during birth that has caused any temporary or permanent damage, do not hesitate to contact us. Our birth injury lawyers are dedicated, willing and able to take on the tough fights against insurance companies, hospitals, and negligent treatment providers to help get you the resources you need to cover the years of special treatment for your injured child.