Chicago birth injury lawyers

A birth injury may occur when a doctor does not react quickly or properly to signals of distress or when substandard care is provided during the pregnancy or birthing process. These factors may result in devastating effects for the mother and child. Lifelong paralysis, traumatic brain damage, and even death may happen if a doctor does not provide adequate medical care to the patient.

For instance, Brachial Plexus occurs when the shoulder is stretched or pulled during labor and delivery.  The nerves of the arm and hand are injured resulting in paralysis of the arm, increased or decreased feeling to the hand and/or arm, and little muscle control in the arm. In other cases, Cerebral Palsy may result, affecting motor skills, senses, muscles, or mental development. Cerebral Palsy is a permanent medical condition that can be due to brain damage and can occur during labor and delivery. The expenses involved are very high due to medical procedures, health care assistants, and assistive devices.

Some of the birth injuries that may occur due to substandard care are:

• Bone fractures
• Spinal cord damage
• Bruising and skin irritation
• Birth hypoxia and brain damage
• Infections
• Paralysis
• Internal bleeding
• Injury due to forceps
• Brachial Plexus
• Shoulder dystocia
• Breech birth complications
• Erbs or Klumpke palsy
• Fetal death occurring before or during birth
• Death or trauma related to incorrect medicine dosage

We advance all costs in our birth injury cases and seek no attorney fees unless we are able to obtain a recovery on your behalf.

To make sure that the clients of Mitchell S. Sexner & Associates LLC get the maximum possible monetary compensation for birth injury cases, and to properly prepare for these cases, our lawyers align with specialists and birth injury experts who have specific knowledge about the particular birth injuries. Our attorneys also may consult with experts known as life care planners and with economists who can provide accurate and thorough cost data information about any possible impact of a client's injuries on their future life experiences. In other situations, our lawyers speak with psychologists to predict the likely emotional impact on our clients as well as the expenses that a birth injury may have during a client's life.