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Many parents of children born with disabilities often feel overwhelmed when first learning of their child’s condition. During this time, parents are faced with myriad emotions and many difficult decisions. Given the emotional upheaval experienced during this time, it is hard to think beyond what is clearly the most important issue for your family: your child’s health and getting the services needed to minimize or prevent further impairment and to accomplish full realization of potential.
There is, however, another issue that some parents of children born with disabilities need to explore. That issue is determining whether their child’s disability was caused by errors by their physicians or other healthcare providers. Duffy & Duffy’s Long Island birth injury malpractice lawyers have handled many cases involving preventable injuries. If you would like more information from experienced birth injury lawyers, please see below and contact our offices.
Given our culture, we are often loath to consider whether a medical professional caused us harm. The sad reality is that although medical malpractice occurs every day, only a limited number of those affected by that malpractice ever do anything about it. There are a number of reasons why people may fail to act, including feelings of guilt associated with getting a doctor in trouble or feelings of friendship developed with a physician. Still others are too nervous or frightened to become involved in the civil justice system.
Whatever the reasons, two things remain clear: 1) acts of malpractice unfortunately do occur both before, during and after birth and cause neurological injuries resulting in a variety of disabilities including cerebral palsy; and, 2) it is okay to do something about it. In fact, bringing birth-related malpractice issues to light provides a benefit for other families — only when a negligent doctor is held accountable can others be warned of the actions of such negligent doctors and the proper standards of care which should be applied to all patients.
How do you know if medical malpractice occurred during your pregnancy and/or delivery and resulted in your child’s birth injury? The following are some examples of areas where physicians can make diagnosis/treatment errors — and which may indicate medical malpractice:
If you experienced any of these situations or any similar situation either before, during or after the birth of your child, you may have been the victim of malpractice. No list of possibilities can cover every scenario, thus the most important consideration is whether you suspect your care may not have been handled appropriately. A qualified, experienced birth injury malpractice attorney in Long Island can help you make that determination and advise you on a course of action.
There are a number of factors surrounding the birth of your child that may indicate that birth injuries — and medical malpractice — occurred. Birth injuries can be caused by oxygen deprivation, infection, or direct trauma to the infant during the birth process.
There are, of course, certain things one should be aware of in deciding whether or not to suspect malpractice. If your child was floppy at birth with a bluish skin tone, or if he/she had trouble breathing and needed resuscitation upon birth, there is a possibility that medical errors contributed to a birth injury. Other signs that a birth injury may have occurred include an infant having trouble sucking after birth and the onset of tremors or seizures soon after birth. In addition, if your child was born with meconium in the amniotic fluid of his/her body at the time of delivery, there may have been medical errors that impacted the health of your baby.
Some of the conditions that result from injuries sustained before, during, or right after birth include:
Reach out to a Long Island birth injury malpractice lawyer now.
After years of serving New York–including the Bronx, Queens and Nassau, Suffolk and Kings Counties–, we are confident our injury lawyers can assist you with your claim. We are well respected by our clients, who appreciate not only the outcomes we’ve provided but also the care in which we resolved their cases. As you can see from our successful settlements, we offer excellent results, though the outcome varies depending on the case. Regardless of your case details, you can rest assured our Long Island car accident attorneys will always fight for you as you seek compensation to pay for medical bills, vehicle repairs and more. You deserve to be made whole again after your accident, and Duffy & Duffy is here to help.
No. Our injury cases are handled on a contingent retainer. You pay nothing upfront, and we recover attorney’s fees only if your litigation is successful. We don’t bill by the hour. You don’t need to worry about running up a large attorney’s bill before you see any recovery for your injuries.
Yes. Our firm is dedicated to creating a strong relationship with our clients, beginning with keeping your information and consultation confidential.
Each case we encounter is carefully screened and evidence scrutinized to make sure the claim is meritorious and may be successful at trial. We will perform an investigation, and then our partners make a final decision on whether to take on a case.
