Birth Injury Attorneys Bolivar, MO

Birth Injury Attorneys in Bolivar, MO. After the agony of a birth injury, you need an seasoned lawyer you can trust and lean on to fight for your family in this horrible moment. Get in touch with the birth injury attorneys of Burger Law in Bolivar, MO right away at (314) 500-HURT to discuss your birth injury case for free and discover what we will do to help you receive full compensation for your damages. Let our legal professionals help your family move forward and be made whole with a complete financial recovery.

When your child suffers a birth injury before, during or after delivery, it can be traumatizing and heartbreaking. It can be incredibly infuriating when the birth injury happened due to negligent or errant medical care. If your child was injured because of a doctor’s substandard care, Burger Law’s Bolivar, MO team of birth injury lawyers will fight by your side to get the financial recovery you and your family are entitled to to secure you and your loved ones’ future and start on the path to recovery. Call our Bolivar, MO birth injury attorneys now at (314) 500-HURT or contact us online to get your free case review to see why hiring Burger Law is the first step to making you and your family whole again.

Birth Injuries in Bolivar, MO

About six to eight out of 1,000 children born in the United States experience a severe birth injury, which is about one in every 9,714 children and 28,000 babies a year. About two percent of neonatal deaths are the result of birth injuries. Such injuries can include fractures or disorders that have an effect on a child's development or cognition.

Many Bolivar, MO attorneys may have experience in medical malpractice suits, but possibly not birth injury cases or with the certain birth injury you or your child sustained. Our Burger Law birth injury lawyers have experience with every type of birth injury and know every type of birth injury claim, and you can be certain that we will fight by your side until you get a full recovery.

Do I Need a Bolivar, MO Birth Injury Lawyer?

If you suspect that you or your child was injured owing to a doctor’s negligence or breach of care, then it is imperative to turn to the help of seasoned birth injury attorneys in Bolivar, MO. Rearing a child in Bolivar, MO already comes with an abundance of expenses and concerns including food, clothing, school supplies and more. Add to that the prospect that you will have to pay their medical bills for years or their entire life all owing to a doctor’s negligence or careless actions. You deserve to be thinking about when your child will outgrow their jacket, not when they might require a replacement wheelchair because a doctor did not follow the rules.

The talented Bolivar, MO birth injury attorneys at Burger Law will work out your complete damages, including the dollar amount of any probable future medical costs and other expenses and damages. Your devoted birth injury attorney will demand that you are awarded a full and just recovery.

Whatever your child’s circumstances, you want to focus on supplying your child with nourishment and joy, not attempting to navigate a maze of convoluted legal processes. When you call our birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT, we start working on your case straight away to deliver great results. We take care of all the documentation, communication and litigation so you can concentrate on you and your child’s physical and emotional well-being. Our talented birth injury lawyers will deliver maximum compensation and get you and your family on the path to recovery. We finance your case so you will not have to pay any fees until we win your case.

Fortunately, many birth injuries are not serious, and as babies are still developing and growing rapidly, some injuries can heal rather fast. Regardless of whether the injury is minor or leads to lifelong disability, you are owed maximum compensation for your medical bills, pain and suffering and other damages if the injury happened because a doctor or medical institution in Bolivar, MO did not respect the rules and did not give you and your newborn child the professional care they are required to.

Kinds of Birth Injuries

Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that limits movement and the most common form of birth injury that affects about 4 in 1,000 children. There are three categories of cerebral palsy:

1. Spasticity (stiff muscles)
2. Dyskinesia (uncontrollable movements)
3. Ataxia (poor balance and coordination)

Spasticity is the most common type and affects about 80% of people with cerebral palsy. The disorder can be mild – the child may have an unusual gait but does not need any special assistance – or more severe, and your child may necessitate special equipment to walk or not be able to walk at all. Diagnosing and treating cerebral palsy involves closely observing your child’s development, and that can include exhaustive medical appointments, pricey tests and special equipment to help your child walk or carry out other basic tasks. The Bolivar, MO-based birth injury lawyers at Burger Law demand that the responsible party pays for all of your past, present and future medical damages associated with your birth injury.

The medical community is still discovering more about the causes and possible risk factors of cerebral palsy. They do know it happens because of abnormal development of the brain while the brain is still developing, which can occur at any time during the pregnancy or birth. When it occurs during birth, it is often because a doctor or nurse who was delivering the baby was negligent. Doctors need to properly monitor if a child is in distress or if it is receiving enough oxygen to its blood supply.

If your child develops cerebral palsy because a doctor did not properly monitor them, Burger Law’s Bolivar, MO birth injury attorneys will take on your lawsuit and make sure you are awarded the best possible recovery you deserve. If you are anxious that your child is not meeting movement milestones and suspect they might have cerebral palsy, it is important to immediately reach out to your doctor, who will examine your child and may refer you to a specialist. You can also contact Missouri’s Early Intervention system for a free consultation if your child is less than three years old. If your child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy and you believe a medical professional in Bolivar, MO is responsible, call Burger Law today at (314) 500-HURT for your complimentary consultation with a qualified Bolivar, MO birth injury attorney, and start on the journey to collecting a full recovery and protecting the future of you and your child.

Brachial Plexus Injuries and Erb’s Palsy

Brachial plexus injuries are a category of birth injury that results from damage to the brachial plexus – the group of nerves in the shoulder that directs movement and sensation in the arms and hands – during birth. It impedes the use of the arm and shoulder. This is caused by excessive stretching around the shoulder, neck or head during birth, generally when the infant’s head is stretched to the side. This can take place because the baby was very large, atypical birthing presentations such as buttocks first or because a doctor was too rough with your baby during delivery or used improper birthing techniques. Erb’s Palsy is a type of brachial plexus injury where the upper extremities are weak and unable to move normally. Some severe cases involve the tearing of the nerves and can cause permanent nerve damage. Fortunately, in the majority of cases, the child will regain movement within a few months, and there are certain exercises you can practice with your baby to help maintain movement while he or she heals. No matter the extent of the injury or and the cost of the medical treatment, the Bolivar, MO birth injury lawyers at Burger Law will make certain that you are awarded maximum compensation and that the liable party’s insurance company pays every dollar they owe.

Shoulder Dystocia

When the infant's shoulder or shoulders cannot easily pass through the mother during birth, it causes a birth injury complication called shoulder dystocia. Most of the time, the infant is born safely, and treatment may include simply moving the mother’s and fetus’s position during birth. However, neglecting to see or sufficiently treat shoulder dystocia can result in fracture, lack of oxygen, Erb's palsy, or extreme loss of blood for the mother. If any of these conditions occurred during your child’s birth, get in touch with our Bolivar, MO birth injury attorneys at (314) 500-HURT now.

Cephalohematoma

This birth injury happens when blood pools between a baby’s scalp and the skull as the result of damaged blood vessels during labor or delivery. You will observe swelling on your baby’s head, which commonly goes away within a few weeks. The condition is usually mild, however, there are some uncommon issues that can appear. Cephalohematoma can increase your infant’s risk of jaundice or anemia, and your baby may need a blood transfusion or other treatments.

Bruising, Lacerations, Soft Tissue Injuries or Fractures

Bruises and cuts are most often minor birth injuries that heal quickly. Nonetheless, they lead to extra medical costs and unwarranted stress for the parents. It is not uncommon that a baby can be bruised or cut by complications during birth. For instance, if the baby is too large for the mother or labor is excessively long, the baby spends too much time pressed against the mother’s pelvis and can be harmed.

Clearly, broken bones are much more serious and can do much more harm. While a fracture during labor can cause long-term or lifelong disability, normally they heal relatively quickly as children are rapidly and perpetually developing new bone. Either way, a fracture during labor results in unthinkable pain for your baby and mental anguish for you. The delivering doctor must note the circumstances of the birth and take steps to protect the mother and child from injury. When the doctor does not care for you as the are obligated to, you might have a birth injury claim. Our birth injury attorneys will fight to get you the recovery you and your, baby deserve while holding the at-fault doctor responsible.

Sometimes there are measures a Bolivar, MO doctor should have utilized but failed to, and other times the doctor incorrectly used delivery tools or applied too much force during the delivery. In that instance, it is imperative to call our birth injury attorneys in Bolivar, MO immediately to go through your options. Contact us today for a complimentary case evaluation.

Injury to the Mother

Sometimes, the mother or both the mother and child sustained injuries during labor. The mother may experience substantial blood loss or other complications. In some cases, the mother is hurt because of a doctor’s carelessness. For example, high blood pressure before or during labor can be an indication of preeclampsia, which can lead to seizures. If you had a seizure while giving birth after a physician did not recognize your high blood pressure, you are owed damages and our birth injury attorneys will insist that you are properly compensated.

Emotional Injury

Not all damages in birth injury cases can be measured in dollars. If you or your child were hurt because of medical malpractice, then you have experienced undeserved worry, anxiety, heartbreak, shock and more. In the worst cases, you and your child may have to accept the chances of your child never being able to take part in common Bolivar, MO childhood activities or needing special medical requirements for the rest of their life. Getting a full recovery for your pain and suffering and mental anguish is an important step in making you whole again. In order to be awarded the full recovery you and your family are owed, you need veteran birth injury attorneys in Bolivar, MO on your case. Burger Law’s team of birth injury lawyers can help.

It is important to understand that there are several potential causes of birth injuries that are unrelated to medical negligence or a breach of care. For example, many Bolivar, MO birth injuries occur when there is a delayed birth (labor that lasts over 18 hours). In some instances of delayed birth, a Cesarean section may have been the best method of treatment and in others, it could not have been. That depends on your unique labor. Each patient and each birth is different and individual cases vary greatly.

Our Bolivar, MO birth injury attorney at Burger Law has experience with every kind of birth injury suit and will help you decide if the standard of care you were given is less than that which a capable doctor would have given you. Our network of Bolivar, MO physicians and medical experts will help us understand the details of your claim, determine the value of your damages and conclusively demonstrate the medical professional’s negligence in giving you and your child substandard care so that we can get you a full recovery to make you and your family whole.

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

Doctors, healthcare professionals and Bolivar, MO medical institutions have what is called medical professional liability insurance, sometimes known as medical malpractice insurance. Like any Bolivar, MO insurance company, these insurers will try to bully, mislead, and deceive you with labyrinthine and misleading legal vernacular. The shrewd birth injury lawyers at Burger law will manage all communication and litigation for you and will fight back against bullies like resistant insurance companies to make sure they fulfill their obligation and give you the maximum compensation you deserve. Medical malpractice cases in Bolivar, MO can be hard, but our birth injury attorneys have over two years of experience trying and winning birth injury suits and will obtain the evidence, proof, expert testimony and, eventually, the complete compensation you deserve.

In order to triumph in a medical malpractice suit, you must do three things:

1. Assign and demonstrate negligence. Not all instances of birth complications or birth injury are due to a doctor’s negligence. You must prove that the doctor breached the industry standard of care that a competent physician in the same field would have given you. Burger Law’s network of Bolivar, MO physicians and medical experts will help determine if there was negligence, and prove it in your case.
2. Get a affidavit of support. You will need to hire a Bolivar, MO doctor or nurse in the same field—in this case, neonatal care—to write a letter supporting the fact that the care you received was negligent, improper, or substandard. As your birth injury attorneys, the Burger Law team will procure your letter of support.
3. Conclusively demonstrate that negligence caused the harm. Your child might develop cerebral palsy or may be born with a broken collarbone because of shoulder dystocia. The doctor may or may not be at fault, and you will have to prove that the doctor’s birthing techniques or inaction directly caused the harm. You need a Burger Law Bolivar, MO birth injury lawyer you trust to help demonstrate how the defendant's negligence caused a birth injury that has hurt you and your child.

Burger law’s dedicated team of Bolivar, MO-based birth injury attorneys will fight by your side throughout the entire process and handle all the legal work for you so you can concentrate your energy on the well-being of you and your child.

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Call Our St. Louis Birth Injury Attorneys Today

If your child suffered a birth injury, it is expected to feel an array of emotions: frightened, confused, angry and woebegone. If the birth injury is incurred because of medical malpractice, Burger Law will stand by your side to fight for your full compensation and put you on the road to recovery. Our unflinching Bolivar, MO birth injury lawyers will take on your lawsuit and work tirelessly for you, from our first case review until we win your lawsuit. Allow us to help you safeguard you and your child’s future. Get a free case review today by calling us at (314) 500-HURT or by filling out this form.