Birth Injury

Overview

Most babies are born without complications. However, sometimes, an emergency happens that threatens your life or the life of your baby. Without proper care, the results can be devastating. Understanding all the facts will help your family determine if you need a birth injury lawyer.

What is a Birth Injury?

Birth injuries can happen in many ways. Sometimes an illness or injury during pregnancy causes a birth injury. Other times, birth injuries occur because of negligence by a doctor, nurse, or other medical professional. Common injuries are brain damage, traumatic brain injury, and developmental delays. Other birth injuries that can be a result of medical malpractice may include:

Did Your Child Suffer a Preventable Birth Injury?

Every doctor and other health care professional must follow certain standards when treating a patient. If standards are not followed and a birth injury occurs, it might be medical negligence or malpractice. Some situations where medical negligence might occur include the failure to:

Provide the proper prenatal care
Provide proper support during labor and delivery
Diagnose and treat an infection in the mother
Diagnose and treat early labor
Diagnose a dangerously large baby
Manage an extended pregnancy
Respond to bleeding
Treat placental abruption
Treat maternal preeclampsia or infections
Safely manage labor and delivery or a delay in delivery
Act on fetal heart monitor changes and evidence of fetal distress
Correctly use a vacuum extractor or forceps during delivery
Perform a timely cesarean section (C-section) to remove a baby in distress
Successfully resuscitate and intubate newborn

About Our Birth Injury Attorneys

Birth injury medical malpractice cases require extensive knowledge of both law and medicine. Robins Kaplan LLP birth injury attorneys and medical analysts have extensive experience handling these complex cases. We have been recognized for recovering remarkable settlements for people in Minnesota who have suffered serious personal injuries or economic harm from medical negligence.

If you believe that you, or your baby, have suffered an injury due to improper prenatal care, or failure to diagnose or treat a high-risk pregnancy, we may be able to help.

Contact Us for a Free Case Evaluation

Call 1.800.552.7115 or complete our free case evaluation form to speak to a medical analyst who understands. There is no charge for this call or evaluation.

Our attorneys handle matters primarily in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

How We Help Uncover the Truth

Medical errors at hospitals are not always reported and, worse, they sometimes get covered up. At times, our clients have wrongly been told by medical personnel that what happened could not have been prevented. At Robins Kaplan LLP, our birth injury lawyers and medical analysts have years of experience sifting through medical records to uncover the truth. We find out the cause of injuries and whether the actions of the medical team played a part in causing the birth injury.

Why Hire Us?

You may have seen us on T.V. Our lawyers have appeared on CBS News, Good Morning America (ABC), Dateline NBC, and other news programs. Chris Messerly, and Peter Schmit have been consistently named "Super Lawyers" and "Best Lawyers in America." Year after year, we have been recognized for recovering remarkable settlements for people who have suffered serious personal injuries or economic harm from medical negligence in Minnesota.

If you or your child suffered a birth injury due to improper care during your pregnancy or at the time of delivery, we can help. Call 1.800.552.7115 to speak to a medical analyst who understands. There is no charge for this call or evaluation.