Birth Injuries happen to approximately 27 out of every 1,000 births in the US today. Was you child injured during childbirth? Birth injuries are one of the hardest things to deal with. The Pennsylvania Attorneys at Handler, Henning & Rosenberg, LLP are here to help you. With offices in Harrisburg, Lancaster, York, Hanover and Carlisle to serve you, getting results for your childbirth related injury is top priority.
If your baby has been injured during childbirth resulting in brain damage or other serious injury, the attorneys at Handler, Henning & Rosenberg, LLP are here to help you with your birth injury claim.
Birth Injury Attorneys
The Birth Injury Attorneys at Handler, Henning & Rosenberg, LLP are part of an expert team of legal professionals ready to help you with your birth injury case. Our winning team of attorneys has helped thousands of families in all areas of accident injury, medical malpractice, defective products, trucking accidents and birth injury cases in the Pennsylvania area.
Handling Your Birth Injury Case
Was your baby ever diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, or Erb’s Palsy or brain damage that occurred during pregnancy or the birth process?
If so, you may have a birth injury or malpractice claim against your doctor or your child’s doctor and his/her staff, or the hospital and its staff, and need a birth injury lawyer to represent you and your child. Under the laws of medical malpractice, birth injury or birth trauma claims are extremely complex to investigate and pursue in Court.
You and your child need an attorney well experienced in investigating and litigating birth injury cases. The lawyers at Handler, Henning & Rosenberg, LLP have the experience you need to represent your birth injury case. Call 1-800-461-4140 for help today for your birth injury case.
Contact a Pennsylvania Injury Attorney To Get The Compensation You Deserve For Your Injury
When you contact a Pennsylvania Injury Attorney at our firm to handle your birth injury case, you get an expert team of legal professionals. We have helped thousands of car accident injury victims recover settlements for their injuries, losses, and pain & suffering.
Our injury attorneys handle more than birth injuries, we can also help you with, workers’ compensation, medical malpractice, product liability, cerebral palsy, asbestos exposure, dog bites, trucking accidents, traumatic brain injury, motorcycle accidents, side effects, and premises liability cases anywhere in Pennsylvania.
Birth Injury Laws – Medical Malpractice
In a birth injury case, under the laws of medical malpractice damages may be recovered for you or your child if the involved health care professionals failed in a relevant way to follow or abide by the usual standards of care or rules set by the health care profession. This is what is meant by medical negligence resulting in birth injury. The birth injury lawyers at Handler Henning & Rosenberg, LLP are highly experienced in handling birth injury cases that result in medical negligence claims and birth injury lawsuits. Children who are injured require the most care, and, unfortunately, the medical bills add up very quickly. Parents who think their children have been damaged during childbirth are invited to contact us immediately at 1-800-461-4140 to discuss your birth injury case.
Types of birth injuries
Cerebral Palsy – This term covers a complex brain injury caused by lack of oxygen to the brain or by infection which causes damage to the brain, cognitive deficits, seizures, spasticity in the arms or legs, inability to eat and, in very severe cases, inability to breathe without the assistance of a ventilator. It is very expensive to care for such a child. Medical bills could exceed hundreds of thousands of dollars a year! The causes of Cerebral Palsy are many and varied.
A significant number of babies have Cerebral Palsy because of malpractice by medical personnel during the prenatal office visits and/or mistakes during the labor and delivery process. Obviously, these are preventable birth injuries.
Brachial Plexus Palsy – The nerves of the baby’s arm run from the neck, under the shoulder, through the armpit and into the arm. These nerves can be torn during delivery such that the child is left with a permanent disability in movement and growth of its arm, hand or shoulder. This is a Brachial Plexus injury (also known as “Erb’s Palsy”) and is often, but not always, caused by medical malpractice during childbirth.
Other Birth-Related Injuries – During childbirth, instruments which are used to assist the delivery of the baby can cause skull fractures, bleeding in the baby’s brain, spinal cord or brain injuries or facial scarring. Additionally, certain drugs administered by the doctor or nurse during labor can cause injuries to the mother if not properly monitored and controlled (for example, rupture of the uterus; and abruption or tearing of the placenta). Sometimes, these birth injuries are caused by medical malpractice.
Call 1-800-461-4140 for a free consultation
Let the Law Offices of Handler Henning & Rosenberg, LLP handle your birth injury case. With offices in the Harrisburg, Lancaster, York, Hanover and Carlisle area, we will come to you. If your baby has been injured during childbirth resulting in brain damage or other serious injury, the attorneys at Handler, Henning & Rosenberg, LLP are here to help you with your birth injury claim.
