While the birth of a child is a milestone every family looks forward to, the labor and delivery process poses a serious risk of complications. It’s critical that both the mother and child get the highest quality medical care possible as a child enters the world to ensure everything goes smoothly.
Unfortunately, sometimes this doesn’t occur. In fact, there are tragic situations when medical negligence leads to birth injuries that change a family’s life forever.
If this happens to you, Gill Ports Hoste LLC can help. Our Chicago personal injury lawyers have over 100+ years of collective legal experience, and we are prepared to help you fight for justice even in the most complex birth injury claims.
To find out more about what our legal team can do for you, give us a call or contact us online today to schedule your free consultation with a Schaumburg birth injury lawyer.
Common types of birth injuries
Since many different things can go wrong during labor and delivery, there are many different types of birth injuries. According to the Cleveland Clinic, some of the most common include:
- Broken collarbones
- Caput succedaneum, or the swelling of a newborn’s scalp
- Cephalohematoma or pooling of blood under a newborn’s scalp
- Erb’s palsy
- Swelling of the eyelids
- Facial nerve paralysis
- Fractured arm or leg bones
- Intracranial hemorrhages
- Cuts or lacerations on the scalp or face
- Injuries to the nose, including a deviated septum
- Retinal or subconjunctival hemorrhages (injuries to the eye)
- Skull fractures
- Epidural or subarachnoid bleeding of the brain
- Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, or brain damage due to oxygen deprivation
- Injuries to the spleen, liver, or internal organs
- Fractured ribs
- Spinal cord damage
- Subgaleal hemorrhage
- Cerebral palsy
When your child experiences these birth injuries, you may incur expensive medical costs, and both you and your child could experience pain and emotional trauma due to the damage to your child’s health.
In some tragic cases, the injuries to your child won’t be curable, and your child will suffer lifelong impairments. Some birth injuries can also be fatal.
What are your rights after a birth injury?
When a birth injury affects your child and family, you need to understand how the justice system protects you.
Gill Ports Hoste LLC has helped clients harmed by medical negligence to recover millions of dollars in compensation, and we can put our legal experience to work for you.
Our firm will:
- Help you identify defendants: The doctor or caregivers who treated you before and during birth could potentially be liable for losses resulting from birth injuries if you can prove their care fell short of the professional standard of care. Vicarious liability laws also allow you to hold employers like hospitals liable for the negligence of staff members.
- Work with you to prove how your birth injury occurred: We will subpoena medical records, find expert witnesses, interview those present at your birth, review hospital and caregiver policies, and take other steps needed to show how the birth injury happened and why your medical care providers were to blame.
- Negotiate a settlement or fight for you in court: We’ve stood up to major malpractice insurers and are ready to demand the compensation you deserve. We also have courtroom experience to bring to the table and can make a compelling legal claim to a jury.
We have recovered millions of dollars in compensation for medical negligence victims, and we’ll do everything we can to get you the money you need to move forward.
Contact a Schaumburg birth injury attorney today
Gill Ports Hoste LLC offers compassionate advocacy to families coping with trauma due to problems during labor and delivery. Give us a call today to schedule your free consultation with a Schaumburg birth injury attorney to find out how we can help you.