Birth Injury
Injuries sustained by a newborn during pregnancy or childbirth are among the most tragic injuries in medicine. Tragic, because many of these life-altering injuries are in some way avoidable.
Parents often inquire as to the injuries at birth well after the fact. At some point in time they become aware that their child’s development is abnormal and they question whether this abnormal development resulted from an injury sustained during delivery.
If you or someone you know has a child that has suffered a trauma or birth injury due to medical negligence, it can be difficult to know where to turn for help. At Meyers Kenrick Giuffre & Evans, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, our lawyers have over thirty years of experience helping the parents and families of injured newborns find solid solutions to serious medical problems.
Our experience has taught us about the physical, economic and emotional hardships you face. That’s why we provide straight answers and, when appropriate, solid solutions. It’s what you deserve.
The law firm of Meyers Kenrick Giuffre and Evans has successfully helped Pennsylvania families receive awards for medical incidents including: Cerebral Palsy, Erb’s Palsy, Brachial Plexus injuries, respiratory and airway incidents, brain injury, shoulder Dystocia, nerve damage and newborn and fetal death, respiratory depression, and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
Speaking with an attorney about a birth injury case
Speaking with a lawyer about a possible birth injury case doesn’t necessarily mean that a law suit is going to be filed or that an extensive investigation is going to commence, sometimes it just eliminates the doubt, the lingering question that most of us have to face some time in our lives when coming to grips with unfortunate events: "Could this tragedy have been prevented?"
When we believe that injuries are a matter of fate, it’s quite different than if we believe that it was preventable. The first thing that happens with a loving family member is that if they believe an event was preventable, they suddenly believe it was their fault that it wasn’t prevented. It doesn’t matter how little medical knowledge they had at the time, they persuade themselves in time that they should have known; they then live with this terrible guilt.
One advantage of going to a lawyer in such circumstances is to find out the truth surrounding the incident, and the benefit of this is not just to the family, but to society at large. When we identify unsafe medical practices related to childbirth in the course of an investigation, it becomes far less likely that they will be repeated.
A medical injury suffered by a victim can be the basis for protecting others in the future. The tragedy can be transformed into a memorial to the victim. It prevents the death or injury from being trivialized or seeming meaningless and makes far less likely a repetition of the same carelessness in the future. Not that anyone would voluntarily incur such harms, particularly for their children in order to protect others in the future. But since the harm has already been suffered, why not act in such a way so as to give some meaning to the crisis and tragedy so that some good comes from it?
In the case of the victims who have to live with their disabilities, the economic challenges that such people face are enormous, and there are usually not resources to deal with those challenges outside of the judicial system. If you believe that your child was a victim of a birth injury related to medical negligence, we urge you to call us, e-mail or visit our office located at 500 Grant Street, Suite 4800, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The attorneys of our law firm have successfully represented hundreds of individuals, families and groups throughout the state of Pennsylvania in medical malpractice and catastrophic person injury cases.
