Fort Myers Birth Injury Lawyer

After months of anxiously awaiting your child’s birth, it is heartbreaking to learn that they suffered injuries during delivery. Sometimes, the resulting medical condition is treatable, and the child might sustain only minimal long-term complications. However, birth injuries can also lead to severe injuries, permanent disability, or even death. Furthermore, the mistakes that hurt the child may also have injured their mother.

Complications can arise naturally during childbirth, but many potentially harmful scenarios are preventable – and more likely to occur in the presence of negligent healthcare providers. If you, your partner, or your child suffered an injury that negligent healthcare caused, our Fort Myers birth injury lawyers can help you recover monetary damages.

The legal team at Freidin Brown, P.A. has helped malpractice victims recover multimillion-dollar settlements and verdicts. Our medical malpractice lawyers know what it takes to get the resources you need for your child’s care – now and in the future. Let us advocate on your behalf while you determine the best next steps for your baby’s future. Please call us today for a no-cost case evaluation that is always confidential.

Our Fort Myers Lawyers Will Fight for Financial Justice for Your Child’s Birth Injury

If your infant suffered a birth injury, they may require significant and ongoing medical treatment and special services. In addition, making sure they get what they need can alter your life and ability to work outside the home.

Our Fort Myers, FL, birth injury lawyers will work to ensure you and your family do not suffer long-term economic consequences because of medical negligence. If your child’s injury resulted from a medical mistake during pregnancy or childbirth, our medical malpractice attorneys will pursue financial resources to pay for your child’s health care and other related expenses.

Compensation for a birth injury can address:

• Medical expenses, including surgeries, doctor and hospital fees, medications, mobility aids, and medical equipment
• Ongoing treatment, including physical rehabilitation, follow-up procedures, and long-term nursing services
• Education and therapy, including speech therapy, cognitive therapy, and specialized schooling
• Lost income caused by an infant or maternal injury
• Lost earning capacity if your child’s injury will prevent them from earning a living, or their care requires you to take a lower-paying job, reduce your hours, or leave the workforce
• Physical pain and suffering
• Mental and emotional distress, including diminished quality of life
• Wrongful death damages, if your child or the child’s mother suffered a fatal birth injury

What Do Birth Injury Lawyers Do for Fort Myers Clients?

Medical malpractice can be painful and distressing, especially when your baby is suffering. You also probably have accumulated a lot of expenses, and now you might be concerned about future financial losses. You and your family already have enough to worry about without dealing with insurance companies.

Our birth trauma lawyers aim to relieve you of some of these stresses by taking on all the legal tasks like:

• Communicating with the other party
• Negotiating for a settlement
• Filing your lawsuit
• Ensuring all state requirements for medical malpractice lawsuits are met
• Gathering evidence and speaking to medical experts and other professionals who can support your claims
• Building a legal strategy and establishing liability

When you work with Freidin Brown, P.A., you get a firm that believes in personalized care and thorough legal representation. Please do not hesitate to call us for help.

Our Fort Myers Attorneys Get the Results Birth Injury Clients Need

You do not have to leave your child’s health and family’s financial future to chance. Freidin Brown, P.A.’s personal injury attorneys have won over $500 million for our clients in verdicts and judgments. Our team includes two Board Certified Civil Trial Attorneys, and we have taken more than 300 cases to trial.

Our birth injury case results include:

• A $38 million verdict for the family of premature twin boys who suffered blindness due to a doctor’s failure to diagnose an eye condition at birth.
• A $9.75 million settlement on behalf of a mother who suffered an ischemic stroke shortly after a cesarean section.
• A $4.625 million jury verdict for infant blindness due to medical negligence and premature patient discharge
• A $3 million verdict for the family of a woman who bled to death after childbirth.
• A $1.8 million verdict for an infant brain injury.

We will talk with you to learn more about what happened to ensure we address your concerns and give your case the personal attention it deserves. We will do everything possible to seek damages to help you manage your child’s needs.

Frequently Asked Questions for Our Fort Myers Birth Injury Team

How Do Our Fort Myers Birth Injuries Lawyers Prove Medical Malpractice?

Our Florida birth injury attorneys must establish certain facts in a case based on medical malpractice. We must prove that an OB-GYN or other healthcare provider breached the relevant standard of care that applies to their profession. The standard refers to the level of skill and treatment that any practitioner would recognize as appropriate under the same circumstances.

Establishing the standard of care for a case can be complex, and we draw on the medical experts at our disposal. These experts will help establish the expectations for that profession and specialty and give professional opinions about the quality of care you received (or didn’t receive).

We must also show a direct link between the provider’s care and your child’s injuries. The provider may claim that your baby’s injuries were unavoidable due to circumstances beyond their control, but evidence and testimonies can help disprove this claim and show proof of injuries and other losses.

Is a Provider’s Error Always a Sign of Medical Malpractice?

No, not every mistake by a physician or other medical provider is malpractice. Doctors can provide care that meets the standard of care and still make errors, which can make these cases challenging for firms that do not have experience with this practice area.

It can be challenging to prove a birth injury resulted from medical malpractice and not just routine childbirth complications. That is where our attorneys’ 100-plus years of combined experience can benefit you.

We regularly consult with nurses, doctors, and other medical experts and can apply medical and scientific research to malpractice cases. We do the work needed to build a solid claim, allowing you to focus on your child and family.

What Are Some Examples of Medical Malpractice Birth Injuries I Can Seek Damages For?

Birth injuries to mother and child often happen when professionals make mistakes like:

• Misdiagnosing or failing to diagnose issues during pregnancy or labor and delivery, or after birth
• Failing to recognize signs of fetal distress
• Making medication errors
• Improperly using birthing tools, like forceps or vacuum

When a doctor or other professional deviates from the standard of care in the industry, it can result in birth injuries. Some common birth injuries we see include:

• Brain damage due to lack of oxygen during delivery
• Cerebral palsy
• Injuries to the brachial plexus, also known as Erb’s palsy
• Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
• Kernicterus, caused by untreated newborn jaundice
• Head and spinal cord trauma through improper use of forceps or vacuum extractor

Maternal injuries can also occur during childbirth. Birth injuries to the mother may include vaginal tears, prolapsed uterus, and postpartum hemorrhaging.

What Can You Do if Your Child Suffered Harm Because of a Fort Myers Provider?

Our Fort Myers birth injuries lawyers at Freidin Brown, P.A. will collect evidence, file your medical malpractice claim, and pursue litigation in court if necessary to ensure you receive fair compensation. However, there are a few tasks you can take on to support our efforts:

• Get proper medical care for yourself or your baby
• Request all medical records
• Follow doctor’s orders for at-home care and attend all appointments for treatment
• Document everything about your experience

In a successful birth injury case, it is possible to obtain monetary damages for medical costs, including surgery, hospital stays, and treatment from specialists. You may also be able to recover amounts for your non-economic losses, such as pain and suffering, emotional distress, scarring and disfigurement, and many others. Keeping careful records can increase your chances of a favorable case outcome.

When Should I Seek Help for a Fort Myers Birth Injury?

Do not wait too long to start your case. According to Florida Statutes § 95.11, you have a limited time period to file your medical malpractice case.

This window of time applies to both personal injury and wrongful death cases. Missing the deadline could leave you without options for financial recovery. Acting quickly also allows our lawyers to get started right away. The sooner we can begin our investigations, the better.

Who Is Liable for a Birth Injury in My Fort Myers Birth Injury Case?

One or more parties could be liable for the harm your baby suffered at birth. These parties can include but are not limited to:

• An OB-GYN or other physician
• Nurses
• Midwives
• The hospital or medical facility
• Imaging centers or imaging professionals
• Pharmacists and technicians

Freidin Brown, P.A.’s Attorneys Can Advise You After a Birth Injury in Fort Myers

Freidin Brown, P.A. will manage all aspects of your medical malpractice birth injury case for you and your family while you care for your child’s needs.

To learn more about how we can represent you for no upfront or out-of-pocket costs, contact our firm or call us today. We can get you started with a free consultation so that we can learn more about your situation and how our Fort Myers birth injury attorneys can help.