Birth Injuries

It has been reported that an average of six to eight significant birth injuries per every 1,000 live births occur each year.  Birth injuries generally refer to an impairment of any of the infant’s body function or body itself due to complications during the delivery process.  Medical errors do sometimes occur during child birth and can result in a wide range of health problems, including temporary bone fractures, bleeding and bruising, cerebral palsy, permanent brain damage, and more.

Birth injuries can be caused by a number of different factors, most of them during the delivery process and most of them avoidable.  Some of these include the failure to anticipate the probability of a difficult childbirth before delivery, failure to follow proper procedures for umbilical entrapment, failure to respond immediately and appropriately to bleeding of the patient, failure to anticipate the need for a caesarian section or take immediate action when one is required, inappropriate use of delivery tools such as forceps and vacuum extractors, and inappropriate use or failure to give proper medications.  Additionally, birth injuries can also be caused after the birth process. These types of birth injuries can result when poor care or inappropriate response to an infant’s needs occurs, such as with circumcision or in the treatment of a particular infection. 

Leading Sacramento Birth Injury Attorneys

If your infant has suffered a birth injury as the result of malpractice or negligence, you may be entitled to compensation for your infant’s pain and suffering, as well as for any costs that may be associated with injury, including extra future care and treatment that may be required as your child grows up.  At the Sacramento Personal Injury Law Firm, we have a vast amount of experience representing parents of children who were injured as a result of medical malpractice or negligence.  Our highly skilled Sacramento birth injury attorneys have the medical resources and experience necessary to successfully litigate your birth injury claim. 

We offer free Sacramento birth injury case evaluations.  Contact us today to find out how we can help you!