The birth injury lawyers at The Crosley Law Firm, P.C. investigate birth injury claims caused by medical negligence or obstetrical mismanagement and provide legal representation of the highest caliber for seriously injured people and their families. Birth injury lawyer Tom Crosley has successfully represented families of children with many types of birth injuries including brachial palsy claims, cerebral palsy claims, and other birth defect claims.
Welcoming a new child should be a joyous occasion marked by celebration. Unfortunately, medical negligence can cause this time to be a very difficult time. Birth injuries are especially devastating and heartbreaking because they occur at a time when a family is most vulnerable. They are trusting medical professionals to help them through the birthing process and are often unfamiliar with the dangers of improper delivery techniques or what can occur if the medical professionals do not follow proper medical standards. As a result parents are not always aware when a birth injury is the result of medical negligence. These birth injuries can result in severe injuries including cerebral palsy or brachial palsy or death to a newborn. Birth injury Lawyer, Tom Crosley, investigates medical malpractice claims where it is suspected that negligence by a medical professional has resulted in injuries or death to a newborn. When his law firm determines that medical malpractice has occurred and has caused severe injuries his firm aggressively pursues the birth injury claim.
Birth Injuries Defined
Sometimes during the birth process, a baby may suffer a physical injury or a birth injury. A birth injury may occur at any time during a pregnancy, delivery, or immediately following delivery. Failure to recognize complications that arise during pregnancy may result in injury to the infant. Improper handling of an infant during delivery may result in oxygen loss and permanent brain damage. These negligent acts and other obstetrical mismanagement claims are the birth injury claims that lawyer, Tom Crosley handles.
Causes of Birth Injury
Conditions that are frequently associated with difficult births include but are not limited to the following:
Large babies in excess of 4,000 grams (8 lbs., 13 oz.)
Premature babies born earlier than 37 weeks in gestation
Cephalopelvic disproportion-the size and shape of the mothers pelvis is not sufficient to allow for vaginal birth
Dystocia (difficult labor or birth)
Prolonged labor
Abnormal birthing position, such as a breech birth
Common Types of Birth Injury
Bruising/forcep marks
Fractures (often of the clavicle or collarbone)
Subconjunctival hemorrhage (breakage of the small blood vessels of the eye)
Caput succedaneum (severe swelling of the soft tissues of the babys scalp
Cephalohematoma (area of bleeding between the bone and its fibrous covering)
Facial paralysis
Brachial palsy
Cerebral palsy
Seek Qualified Counsel (Birth injury lawyer Tom Crosley has the necessary experience to represent families with birth injury claims)
Our firm has successfully represented families of children with cerebral palsy, brain damage, brachial palsy, mental retardation, seizures and other injuries that have occurred during birth. Our birth injury attorneys and experts have identified negligence in cases involving failure to recognize fetal distress, failure to diagnose bacterial meningitis, difficult labor and deliveries, and other cases involving lack of oxygen or trauma.
In birth injury cases it is essential that measures be taken promptly to preserve evidence, review the medical procedures in question, and to enable physicians or other expert witnesses to thoroughly evaluate the birth record and injuries.
In hiring a lawyer to handle a medical negligence or obstetrical mismanagement claim resulting in serious injury or the death of a new born, it is important to hire an experience birth injury lawyer that is familiar with cases involving failure to recognize fetal distress, failure to diagnose bacterial meningitis, difficult labor and deliveries, and other cases involving lack of oxygen or trauma.
If your baby suffered injuries before, during, or after birth, call The Crosley Law Firm, P.C. at (210) 354-4500, complete the contact form or e-mail us for a no cost, no obligation consultation.
