Washington DC Birth Injury Lawyer

Serious injuries deserve experienced attorneys

Most people cannot fathom their new baby being less than perfect when they are born but it is a horrible reality that many new parents require the help of the personal injury lawyers Washington DC families can rely on in difficult times like yours.

Most parents-to-be do all sorts of things prior to a baby’s birth to help ensure its healthy and safe arrival to the world. People try to become as healthy as they can be in anticipation of having a little person who will need both physical and emotional care and guidance. Parents to be do many different things including but not limited to, changing their diets, starting to exercise or exercise more, they take vitamins, they get rid of anything remotely toxic from their home environment, they baby proof their homes well in advance of the little one being born let alone able to walk. People take classes, go to therapy, and when possible, take time off of work when the baby arrives.

The birth of one’s child should be a joyous (albeit often painful and messy) occasion. Yet some people’s experience quickly turns from Hollywood romance to a horror story when their baby is injured during birth.

When the organs and tissues of a child are damaged because of complications during birth, it is often referred to as a “birth injury”. This can be caused because of negligence of a doctor or other healthcare provider during the deliver. Common causes of birth injuries because of neglect include but are not limited to:
– Unreasonable delay in performing a C-Section when the mom or baby are
showing signs of distress
– Failing to detect a baby’s neck being wrapped by the umbilical cord
– Misdiagnosis of conditions prior to birth
– Failure to perform prenatal tests
– Lack of oxygen to the fetus during birth

The initial aftershock of having your baby injured at birth often does not prepare the parents, siblings, grandparents and other relatives and good friends for the road that lies ahead. Birth injuries can cause lifelong physical and mental disabilities.

If you are confronting the awful reality that your beautiful new baby is suffering from injuries sustained during the birth process, contact a birth injury lawyer Washington DC residents are fortunate to have available to them. The compassionate and experienced legal team at Cohen & Cohen is available to discuss your difficult situation and help you to understand whether or not you have a case that they can help you to seek compensation for. Knowing what your rights are may help you to make important decisions during this stressful and difficult time. Knowing that you and your family have an ally who wants to fight tirelessly for their and their baby’s rights can give some people some amount of solace knowing that that they are doing everything they can to ensure that they have the means to take care of their injured baby as time goes on.

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 Washington DC 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 Washington DC and throughout the surrounding 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.

If you and your loved ones are facing the fact that your baby was injured during birth, discuss your situation with a highly rated birth injury lawyer Washington DC families can turn for these kinds of problems, at Cohen & Cohen