Parents can turn to a compassionate and professional Chicago birth injury lawyer after an act of medical malpractice during delivery. The costs of caring for a baby with a birth injury can be astronomical. The team at Birth Injury Lawyers Group can support your family and provide the personalized legal assistance you need.
Our team has spent decades helping families get justice, earning more than $750 million in compensation for them. As a nationally recognized law firm, we can offer the support you deserve when building a birth injury claim.
Medical professionals make mistakes more often than you think. If they caused your child’s birth injury, you can sue for compensation through a medical malpractice lawsuit. An Illinois birth injury lawyer can help your family get answers and pursue a lawsuit against the people who harmed your baby.
How Can a Birth Injury Lawyer Help You?
Hiring a birth injury lawyer gives you many advantages when fighting insurers for compensation. It levels the playing field because our lawyers can take the insurers to court. A judge and jury may make them pay far more than they wish to pay, so they’re more willing to negotiate.
Lawyers also know how the law applies to your case and how to prove your claims that your baby suffered harm through malpractice. Through our investigative skills and our network of medical experts, we will discover if someone breached the standards of care and harmed your baby.
We also give clients legal advice on how to protect themselves and their babies from insurance tactics that could put their compensation at risk. If an insurer has reached out to you with a settlement offer, do not accept it without speaking to our lawyers first. It’s a near certainty that it’s less than what you should receive.
"If your child was born with a birth injury, or cerebral palsy, we can help."
Types of Birth Injury Claims We Handle
Our experienced legal team can assist with a wide range of birth injury cases. For example, you can contact us for help from a:
- Chicago Birth Asphyxia Lawyer: We believe in offering dedicated support to families who need to pursue justice and compensation when medical negligence leads to birth asphyxia injuries during the delivery process.
- Chicago Brain Damage Lawyer: We offer compassionate legal support for families whose children suffer from preventable brain damage and brain injuries due to medical malpractice.
- Chicago Brain Ischemia Lawyer: You can rely on us to fight for the rights of newborns and families affected by brain ischemia caused by delayed or improper medical care.
- Chicago Cerebral Palsy Lawyer: Our law firm advocates for children diagnosed with cerebral palsy resulting from medical errors during labor and delivery.
- Chicago Erb’s Palsy Lawyer: You can turn to us for help securing compensation when birth injuries caused by a medical provider lead to Erb’s palsy and long-term disability.
- Chicago Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Lawyer: We represent families in cases of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy caused by oxygen deprivation during childbirth.
- Chicago Infant Broken Bones Lawyer: Our team seeks justice for infants who suffer broken bones due to medical negligence during labor and delivery. We take this form of birth trauma seriously.
- Chicago Infant Cephalohematoma Lawyer: We can pursue legal action for families whose newborns develop cephalohematoma due to improper medical techniques, especially during difficult deliveries.
- Chicago Newborn Brain Hemorrhage Lawyer: You can rely on us to support families when malpractice on the part of medical staff results in newborn brain hemorrhages and lasting complications.
- Chicago Umbilical Cord Birth Injury Lawyer: We fight for families impacted by umbilical cord injuries that proper medical care could have prevented.
The above list contains examples of the types of cases an experienced birth injury lawyer in Chicago can help you handle. You can reach out to us now to discuss the specifics of your family’s situation.
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Compensation Available for a Birth Injury Claim
Our team believes in pursuing maximum compensation for clients who turn to us for assistance after a birth injury. Depending on your circumstances, we may bring you the money you need to pay for:
Medical Bills
We understand the high medical expenses your family can face after birth trauma. The liable party may need to cover the costs of all diagnostic tests, surgeries, medications, and other healthcare costs.
Pain and Suffering
Injuries sustained before, during, and after delivery can result in serious mental and emotional consequences. The at-fault party could be required to cover the costs of your family’s:
- Emotional distress
- Mental anguish
- Pain that diminishes quality of life
An attorney can provide you with more information about the types of compensation available in your situation.
"We know first-hand what you are going through."
How Much Is a Birth Injury Case Worth?
The compensation available through birth injury litigation varies on a case-by-case basis. Your lawyer will need to review the specific losses faced by your family to determine a fair value for your claim.
Make sure that you get legal guidance about the potential value of your claim so you do not accept a subpar compensation offer from the insurance company representing the liable party. Once you take one of these offers, you generally cannot go back and request additional compensation for your family’s losses.
"Our Birth Injury Lawyers have recovered over $750+ Million on behalf of our clients."
Why Choose Our Chicago Birth Injury Attorneys?
Our team at Birth Injury Lawyers Group believes in providing families with the dedicated support they need after an act of medical malpractice. We hold negligent healthcare providers responsible for the pain, distress, and financial losses they cause.
You can rely on us to stand by you every step of the way. We have a track record of successfully handling claims involving medical negligence.
We take on these cases using a contingency fee system, so you’ll only have to pay for legal fees after the final resolution of your claim. Reach out now to learn more about the way we can help you move forward after an injury during childbirth.
What Are Birth Injuries?
Birth injuries are injuries to babies and mothers that happen prior to, during, or just after birth. Mothers and children are completely at the mercy of medical professionals during this critical phase of life. Competent doctors and nurses take great care to protect them against the many things that can go wrong.
However, some medical workers act negligently and put babies and mothers at risk for serious injuries or death. If this negligence causes harm, you may have a medical malpractice case. Our birth injury attorneys in Chicago and across the country help victims discover if there was malpractice.
Malpractice cases aren’t like other personal injury claims. Filing a claim on your own with your provider’s malpractice insurer is a recipe for disaster. Your claim will get denied, or you’ll get far less than you deserve unless you have the help of a lawyer to fight back.
Can You File a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit in Chicago?
You may have a chance to file a lawsuit after a birth injury if your attorney can establish malpractice. There are four things required to sue a medical professional for malpractice successfully. When we’re investigating a claim, we’re looking for evidence to establish:
A Medical Relationship
There must be a medical relationship between your baby and the defendant (who you’re suing). There may be multiple defendants. In many birth injury cases, you’ll sue both a medical professional and the hospital that employs them. Finding all the responsible parties means more routes to secure fair compensation.
A Breach of the Standards of Care
How do you know if a doctor harms someone when there are so many things that can go wrong during medical treatment? Death and injury aren’t always avoidable. Yet medical science has built up a body of treatment knowledge and best practices. These are called standards of care.
A doctor who breaks the standards of care set by other medical professionals is negligent. For example, a fetus needs to have a monitor connected during birth to track their vital signs.
If the care team forgot to connect the monitor or ignored signs of fetal distress that could indicate a lack of oxygen or other issues, that’s a breach of the standards.
Causation of Injury
A breach may put you and your baby at risk but not cause injury. We also must connect the violation to the injury. Sometimes, this connection is direct, like a nurse dropping a baby on the floor, but it can also be indirect.
An experienced birth injury lawyer can review the actions of all medical professionals to see if they contributed to your child’s injuries.
Damages
Damages are the consequences of the injury for which you want to get paid. These may include medical expenses for your baby, pain and suffering payments, and much more.
Parents usually come to a Chicago birth injury lawyer when their health insurance will no longer cover the costs or if the injury is so severe that they want to hold someone accountable.
You have a valid case if we can prove all four elements. However, to maximize your chances of success, you must have a lawyer experienced in your kind of case. The insurers know they might have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions, after a birth injury, so they will try to fight back.
Fortunately, you can turn to us for help with these legal claims. Our extensive experience in birth injury law can allow us to support you throughout this difficult time.
Illinois Laws on Medical Malpractice Claims for Children
There are three laws you need to know about when you start a medical malpractice claim involving children in Chicago. These laws deal with:
Deadlines on Birth Injury Claims
The statute of limitations controls how much time you have to file a birth injury lawsuit. If an injury involves a child under 18 years of age, you have until their eighth birthday to file.
Mothers who sustain injuries must sue within two years of the injury or its discovery and no more than four years since the injury happened.
Establishing the Validity of Your Claim
Illinois has an affidavit of merit requirement for cases. Before we can sue, we must speak with a qualified healthcare professional about what happened. They must vouch that you have a case for malpractice before the court will accept the lawsuit.
Caps on Available Compensation
Some states limit how much compensation victims can get from malpractice cases. While Illinois used to have limits, the legal system struck them down in 2010 as unconstitutional. Thus, if a jury awards you more financial compensation than you expected, you don’t have to worry about the state limiting how much you receive.
Hire a Birth Injury Attorney in Chicago Today
Your baby has suffered enough. Find out if your child’s injury is eligible for a medical malpractice claim and get compensation to help with their care. Contact Birth Injury Lawyers Group to speak with an experienced birth injury attorney in Chicago right away.
All our attorneys work on contingency, which means you will owe no money unless we win your case for you. There is no risk in getting a free consultation.
Call or email our office to schedule your consultation. Your baby’s future depends on it.
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