Brooklyn Lawyers Can Help File A Birth Injury Lawsuit

Manhattan and Brooklyn birth injury malpractice cases

After paying close attention to provide the best pre-natal care, and enjoying a healthy pregnancy, parents expect the birth of a baby to provide cause for celebration and anticipation for a bright future. Hopefully, most families can achieve the happiness they deserve. But if you suspect medical negligence contributed to injuries to your child, a NY City birth injury attorney at the law office of Weinstein, Chase, Messinger & Peters can help you seek the compensation you and your child need—potentially for a lifetime.

Reasons to pursue NYC birth injury lawsuits or settlements

Not every birth injury justifies legal action, but complications before or during birth can cause injury when handled negligently, including the following:

• Signs of fetal distress
• Breech
• Uterine rupture
• Umbilical cord prolapse
• Placenta previa; placenta abruption
• Meconium aspiration
• Loss of heart beat

And all too often, babies suffer from two conditions often caused by medical errors:

• Cerebral palsy is a neurological condition that can affect muscle movement and balance and potentially lead to mental retardation and communication difficulties. In some cases, a lack of oxygen during a difficult delivery can cause this condition.
• Erbs palsy results from injury to the nerves surrounding the shoulder known as the brachial plexus. A common cause of this condition involves drawing the neck and head of the infant to the side or pulling excessively on the shoulders during the exit of the baby from the birth canal. Children can suffer weakness or paralysis of the arm to varying degrees for a lifetime.

The birth injury lawyers in NYC at Weinstein, Chase, Messinger & Peters help clients in the metropolitan area who face a lifetime of issues resulting from these and other issues.

NYC cesarean section birth injury lawyers

After conducting a two-year study between 1999 and 2000, the U.S. National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health concluded that 1.1 percent of over 37,000 cesarean deliveries had an identified fetal injury—including skin laceration, cephalohematoma, clavicular fracture, brachial plexus, skull fracture, or facial nerve palsy. Our birth injury lawyers have the experience and medical resources to recognize many symptoms indicative of C-section injury. And our NYC c-section injury malpractice attorneys can also help parents seek justice when injuries occur as the result of delayed cesarean delivery.

Contact our experienced NYC birth injury attorneys

If you or your child suffered injury due to medical mistakes, hospital negligence, or physician errors before or during childbirth, contact an experienced NYC birth injury lawyer at Weinstein, Chase, Messinger & Peters, P.C. with any questions you may have about your legal rights. Our attorneys can help victims of birth injury errors and other forms of medical malpractice in the NYC metropolitan area when you schedule a free case consultation and evaluation. Even more than lawyers, we consider ourselves client counselors. Let’s look ahead. Together.

At the New York personal injury law firm of Weinstein, Chase, Messinger & Peters, P.C. in Brooklyn, New York, we represent clients throughout the New York (NYC) metropolitan area, including the five boroughs: Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island, and Queens. The counties we serve include Suffolk County, Nassau County, Westchester County, and Putnam County.