The Military Birth Injury Lawsuit: Getting compensation for your baby’s injuries.
Childbirth should be one of life’s most joyous occasions. However, when something goes wrong during labor and delivery, parents are rightfully upset and look for answers. You may wonder whether mistakes made by military doctors or nurses caused your child’s devastating brain damage, cerebral palsy, or seizures, or caused your baby to be stillborn or die soon after birth.
Most serious birth injury medical malpractice cases arise out of one or more of the following:
- failure to timely identify fetal distress or lack of oxygen during birth;
- failure to timely deliver the child by cesarean section;
- failure to safely deliver the baby with forceps or vacuum extraction;
- failure to recognize and treat an abruption, placenta previa, retained placenta or uterine rupture;
- failure to recognize and treat pre-term labor ;
- failure to prevent or recognize an accident with the umbilical cord;
- failure to test and treat for Group B strep before delivery.
Whether brain damage is diagnosed soon after delivery, or later when your child fails to achieve the normal developmental milestones and/or is diagnosed with cerebral palsy, you naturally want to know why your child is injured. Experienced birth injury lawyers generally consider the following questions when evaluating a potential case:
1. Were there warning signs of a potential problem during the prenatal period or during labor and delivery that should have prompted the doctor to act?
2. Did the doctor treat and properly manage the conditions capable of causing irreversible brain damage?
3. What caused the baby’s brain damage?
4. Would appropriate care have prevented the brain damage?
To properly answer these questions, a lawyer must be highly skilled, be aware of the standard of care applied to doctors, understand the causes of birth-related brain damage, and have access to well qualified experts in this field.
Successful Birth Injury Claims Involving United States Military Hospitals
Claims against the United States Army, Navy or Air Force for birth injuries that are prepared by experienced attorneys and have strong support from respected medical experts frequently result in structured settlements. The structured settlements often are set up in a way that medical, hospital, therapeutic and custodial expenses are covered throughout the child’s lifetime. The parents may be paid to provide custodial care for their child in their home and still have the flexibility to be active in their own lives and those of their other children. The structured settlement also eliminates the worries that can accompany a financial settlement both in terms of investment of the monies and payment of subsequent health care related bills.
Our Experience with Military Birth Injury Claims
The lawyers at Brown Law have over 30 years of experience and success resolving claims and lawsuits against the Army, Navy, and Air Force in all states and at military bases overseas involving birth injuries to a child or mother as a result of poor medical care. One of our lawyers is a former high-risk labor and delivery nurse who adds a unique expertise to our legal team. We have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for families making it possible for them to get all of the necessary care for their injured child as well as allow them to resume some of the family activities they had to abandon when their child was injured. Please contact us today by calling 1-877-695-8757 (24/7), e-mailing us at LawHelp@MilitaryMedicalMalpractice.com or filling out the short form on the right side of this page. We can help you too.
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