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Birth Injury Lawsuits Explained

Birth is a dangerous and stressful experience, but families expect their medical professionals and doctors to provide a high level of care. If they fail to do so, birth injuries can be devastating for families.

Contact a birth injury attorney for assistance when you suspect that your child has suffered a preventable injury during birth due to medical malpractice. The most reputable lawyers will review your case without charging any upfront fees. To prove your claim, you must prove the four elements.

Duty of Care

Few events in life are more memorable and special than the birth of a baby. Unfortunately, this process can be stressful for parents when medical errors cause serious injuries to their child during the birth process and during labor. These mistakes are often irreparable and cause a family face a lifetime of challenges.

Medical professionals and doctors have a legal obligation to treat patients with the respect and competence that is expected of health professionals in their respective fields under similar circumstances. This is known as the duty of care. You must demonstrate that a medical professional has violated this duty to settle an action. This usually involves demonstrating how the medical professional's actions or lack thereof, differed from what a qualified and properly trained medical professional would do under the same circumstances.

The second component in a negligence case is the causation. You must prove through medical records and testimony from an expert that the healthcare professional who was at fault's negligence led to your child's injuries. For instance, a doctor may have failed to monitor your child's vital indicators during labor and birth. This could have led to prolonged oxygen deprivation which could have caused brain damage.

The last element of a successful negligence claim is proving damages. You have to prove that you and/or your child suffered real tangible, quantifiable losses as the result of the healthcare professional's negligence to perform their duty of care. This typically includes future and past medical expenses, lost wages and non-economic losses like suffering and pain.

Causation

Medical professionals have a responsibility to patients to provide treatment that is in line with the standards of medical care in their field. If a nurse or doctor fails to meet the standard of care, it can result in injury to the patient, and lead to an action for damages. To be successful in a case that involves birth injuries, a lawyer will need to prove that the breach of duty led to the injury to your child. This can be proved with evidence such as medical records and expert testimony.

It is also important to prove that your child would not have suffered the injury in the event that the medical professional adhered to the standard of medical care. Medical experts are asked to examine the situation to determine if a doctor or the hospital behaved in a manner not in line with accepted medical practices.

Birth injuries can have life-altering effects that require an ongoing series of medical treatments and other expenses. It is essential to hold at-fault physicians and hospitals accountable for their negligence, and to seek compensation to provide for your child's future needs.

A lawyer who has handled medical malpractice cases is able to handle the entire legal process, including responding to insurance inquiries and bringing a lawsuit against the accountable parties. They can also develop an argument using evidence, get expert testimony, access medical records and documents and advocate for fair settlements to cover the family's lifetime medical costs and expenses.

Damages

A birth injury lawsuit requires the expertise of medical experts who examine medical records, evidence from you and your family as well as other evidence. They will help establish that the doctor in your case violated their duty to take care of your child and caused harm to your child. They will then calculate the damages you have suffered because of those injuries. This includes the current and future medical expenses as well as the loss of income, the loss of quality of life, emotional distress, and other losses.

It can be devastating for your family if nurses, doctors and other medical staff make inexcusable mistakes prior to or after the birth your child. It isn't always easy to bring legal action against hospitals and doctors who may have committed malpractice or negligence. They have teams of lawyers who work full-time for them to protect their clients, denying claims or reduce settlements.

When you employ an New York birth injury lawyer who can hold the medical professionals responsible for your injuries. Your lawyer will contact the insurance companies and file a claim in court and develop a solid proof-based case to prove the responsibility. They will also fight to get you an acceptable settlement or verdict from a jury for your losses and life-long care costs. They can also submit your lawsuit on time to be in compliance with any applicable statute of limitations, as the clock starts ticking on the date of the malpractice or medical negligence.

Statute of Limitations

A successful claim for compensation in a birth injury lawsuit involves four elements. Your lawyer can help you understand the elements and create an effective legal argument to support your claim.

Medical negligence claims require that you demonstrate that the defendant was under a duty of caring towards your child, that they breached this duty, and that the breach caused the injuries to your child. To prove a claim it is essential that you establish causation, which means that your child's injuries could not have occurred without the actions of the defendant (or negligence).

The defendants can challenge any of these elements. They can claim that there isn't a doctor-patient connection or that the standard of care isn't what you claim it is. In addition, they can challenge your evidence as well as your expert witnesses' opinions.

You'll need to submit medical records, other documents along with an account of what was wrong with the birth of your child. You'll also have to submit an order form with an inventory of all the parties you believe should be named as defendants. A knowledgeable attorney can assist you in identifying most appropriate defendants and ensure they have adequate insurance coverage. A lawyer can help advance costs related to litigation, including the expenses of highly qualified medical experts. This helps ease some of the financial stress that comes with pursuing a birth injury lawsuits injury claim.

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