Birth Injury Claims: Injuries to baby

Labour can be a confusing and sometimes quite frightening time. Fortunately, in the UK and the USA we enjoy excellent standards of Obstetric and Maternity care.

Our Obstetricians and Midwives are trained to very high standards.

However, things can, and do, go wrong. Injuries to a child during or prior to delivery are relatively uncommon. Whilst many injuries are unavoidable consequences of labour, often mistakes are made which lead to unnecessary, and avoidable, injuries to a child.

Where such an injury has occurred as a result of incompetence on behalf of Obstetric or Midwifery staff, a claim may be successfully brought to recover compensation for the child’s injuries.

There are a number of common injuries to children that occur during birth which are on occasions inflicted through negligence or malpractice.

Such injuries include:
Cerebral Palsy
Erb’s Palsy
Facial Palsy
Neonatal death or stillbirth

When an injury is caused through negligence, you will no doubt be angry. Often it is difficult to obtain answers from medical staff in relation to what went wrong.

You will find a lot of information on this website in relation to various types of Birth Injury Claims. Please click on the links to the left to see further information about injuries to children at birth.

Our Birth Injury Claims Lawyers can help you. They have many years of experience of dealing with claims involving injuries at birth and are widely considered to be leaders in the field.

If you believe that your child was injured as a result of negligent treatment, contact us today to discuss your concerns with a specialist Birth Injury Lawyer.