Personal Injury Lawsuit

Giving birth is supposed to be one of the most exciting and amazing times in your life. This dream has been shattered for thousands of women who have had their newborn become injured in the process of giving birth. Doctors have been known to be careless when delivering newborn babies. There are dozens of different injuries newborns have sustained because of the doctor being careless. Don’t let this continue to happen, contact your local Pennsylvania birth injury lawyer today and file a class action lawsuit or a personal lawsuit.

Some of the traumatizing injuries that your newborn may have endured may have semi-permanent effects on the newborn. One of the most common injuries for newborns in bruising on their bodies and heads as a result of the forceps used by the doctor during birth. In some cases newborns heads have been held so tightly that the forceps may cause the skull to crack or fracture. In some cases the fractures have been known to be so extreme that they have required reconstructive surgery in order to make the skull look normal again.

Another injury that a newborn may sustain from the use of forceps during birth is facial paralysis. The careless use of forceps can cause serious injury to the babies’ facial nerves. The nerves in the newborns face can be so damaged that the paralysis in their face can take anywhere from minutes to weeks to clear up, but there have been some instances where the nerve injury has been so severe that surgery was necessary in order to reconstruct the damaged nerves. A Pennsylvania birth injury lawyer can help you get the money you owe to doctors as a result of reconstruction for your infant. We know what it is like for you to have to go through something traumatizing and to have to pay for a mistake of others shouldn’t be part of the burden.

Erb’s Palsy is a common, but avoidable, injury that can affect newborns. Erb’s Palsy occurs when the doctor has a hard time trying to get the shoulders through the mothers’ cervix and applies too much pressure on the head of the baby usually causing the stretching of nerves around the shoulders. When this happens the nerves are usually not severely damaged and heal within a few weeks but in 15-20% of cases the injury is so serious that it could cause permanent damage to the arm and shoulder of the newborn. Pennsylvania birth injury lawyer can help you determine if your newborn has suffered as a result of Erb’s palsy. Some of the signs of Erb’s Palsy that you can look for are if your newborn hangs the injured arm down by his side with his wrist turned against his body. Also, you may want to get your newborn a MRI if he can’t lift the arm up even when he is scared or startled.