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If your child suffered a birth injury because of a medical mistake, Freidin Brown, P.A. can put our 100+ years of combined experience to work and help you hold the responsible person accountable. In doing so, your Miami birth injury lawyer can seek the compensation you will need to provide continuing care, rehabilitation, and any other medical services made necessary by the injury.
If your family is dealing with the aftermath of delivery room malpractice, you must first understand that the critical distinction between genetic birth defects and preventable birth injuries determines your eligibility to file a lawsuit under Florida medical malpractice laws. Fill out our online contact form or call us today to learn more about your rights after a birth injury in Florida.
How Our Miami Birth Injury Lawyers Take Immediate Action For You
When your child suffers a catastrophic delivery room injury, your life is turned upside down. You should be focusing on your family, not fighting corporate hospital lawyers, chasing down records, or decoding clinical jargon. At Freidin Brown, P.A., our medical malpractice attorneys in Miami step in immediately to take total control of your legal claim. We don’t just file paperwork; we build cases designed to win at trial.
The moment you trust us with your case, our senior attorneys and medical team will launch a swift, aggressive strategy on your behalf:
- Deploy in-house medical expertise: Birth injury cases hinge on complex obstetrical and neurological data. Our firm has medical professionals on staff and works with independent, top-tier maternal-fetal medicine experts to instantly audit your delivery charts, proving exactly where the medical errors occurred.
- Force accountability and find answers: Hospitals and doctors routinely cover up mistakes and hide behind convoluted corporate structures. We aggressively cut through the bureaucracy to identify every negligent doctor, delivery nurse, or midwife who harmed your child, ensuring no liable party escapes accountability.
- Calculate your child’s true lifetime needs: We don’t accept lowball insurance payouts that burn out in a few years. We immediately engage our elite economists and lifecare planners to build tailored life care plans for children with birth injuries, locking in the millions needed for lifetime care, therapy, and specialized housing.
- Managing the confusing state insurance venues: Florida features highly restrictive administrative hurdles. We know exactly how to handle NICA compensation claims after a birth injury and will aggressively fight to bypass their system whenever possible to maximize your financial recovery.
- Execute the strict pre-suit protocol on time: Under Florida’s medical malpractice statutes, you cannot simply sue a doctor on day one. We take immediate charge of the complex pre-suit framework, gathering verified expert affidavits and serving the formal Notice of Intent to Initiate Litigation, thus ensuring you never miss the dire statute of limitations for Florida birth injuries.
The hospital’s legal team is already working to minimize what happened to your baby. Protect your child’s future today. Review the urgent steps parents must take after a birth injury and call Freidin Brown, P.A. now for a completely free, confidential case review!
Our Miami Birth Injury Lawyers Have Recovered Millions for Families
At Freidin Brown, P.A., our Miami birth injury attorneys understand that a birth injury is a life-changing event for your child and your family. We have recovered millions of dollars for injured clients. Our past case results include:
Damages You Can Recover in a Miami Birth Injury Case
While it is hard to predict the outcomes, birth injuries often bring steep medical expenses that are hard to pay. Our Miami birth injury lawyers can help you recover damages for the injuries your child has. We divide our pursuit of financial justice into comprehensive economic and non-economic damage categories:
Economic Damages (Lifetime Care & Financial Losses)
- Medical expenses: Emergency treatments, CT scans, MRIs, X-rays, surgeries, specialized medications, and adaptive medical equipment.
- Long-term rehabilitation: Ongoing physical, occupational, speech, and developmental therapies.
- At-home accommodations: Specialized in-home care expenses, home modifications, and cognitive psychiatric support.
- Lost income: Compensation for parents who must reduce their working hours or leave their careers entirely to act as a full-time caregiver.
Non-Economic Damages (Quality of Life)
- Physical pain and suffering endured by the child.
- Severe emotional trauma and psychological distress forced upon the family.
- Pain and suffering
- Emotional trauma
Our legal team works closely with economists and life care planners to accurately forecast what it will cost to protect your child’s future. We will evaluate your financial and non-financial losses before determining how much we can pursue from the liable party to go beyond the average payout of a birth injury claim.
Wrongful Death Damages
If your baby passed away after care from someone in a Miami-area facility or hospital, please accept our sincere condolences. We are here to support you and can help you consider whether you can file a wrongful death lawsuit.
Our Miami wrongful death attorneys can explain how the damages recovered from these legal actions could help reimburse you for medical expenses, funeral and burial fees, and other related losses.
All our legal fees are earned on a contingency basis, meaning that we only get paid if we obtain a recovery for you.
What to Expect When You Choose Our Miami Birth Injury Attorneys
Choosing the right legal team is a monumental decision for your child’s future. Our team can handle any medical malpractice birth injury case in the Miami area and stands apart because we combine the aggressive capability of a premier trial practice with the deeply personal attention of a boutique firm:
- Selectively chosen cases: Because we are a smaller law firm, we deliberately restrict our intake numbers. We take on a smaller number of cases to make sure all our clients get the dedication and resources they deserve. When we bring you on as our client, you become family.
- Board-certified advocacy: Two board-certified attorneys who have tried more than 300 cases in front of a jury. Our founder, Philip Freidin, who is Board Certified in Civil Trials by the Florida Bar, has made it his lifelong mission to offer professional legal representation for people who suffered injuries from wrongful acts that others caused.
- Cutting-edge legal strategies: We use the latest courtroom technology and work with top medical experts nationwide to build the strongest possible case.
- Bilingual representation: Lawyers and staff members who speak fluent Spanish and Portuguese to serve our diverse South Florida community.
- Risk-free, contingency-based representation: We work on a contingency fee basis, meaning that we only get paid if we obtain a recovery for you. We can work on your entire case without requiring you to pay us a penny out of your pocket. Instead, we receive payment only if you win your case.
Our trial attorneys have developed a reputation for achieving positive results in medical malpractice cases, holding doctors responsible, getting families the money they need, and working to improve the healthcare system for everyone. If you need help, we are here to fight for your family! Call us today!
Preventable Birth Injuries and Medical Error Claims Our Lawyers Handle in Miami
Statistically, six to eight of every 1,000 newborn babies will suffer a birth injury. Experts estimate that about one-half of these traumas could be entirely avoided if the medical team recognized maternal risk factors and took appropriate preventative measures. While some delivery room complications occur naturally, many are directly caused by severe medical errors before, during, or shortly after childbirth.
Our firm possesses deep experience identifying the most common types of healthcare provider mistakes that lead to birth injuries, including:
- Fetal distress & delayed C-sections: Failing to monitor your baby’s fetal heart rate (FHR) or recognize signs of fetal distress, leading to prolonged oxygen deprivation, pediatric stroke, permanent brain damage, or Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE).
- Mechanical delivery trauma: Misusing forceps or a vacuum extractor during delivery, or pulling and twisting on the baby’s head or arm. These frequent labor and delivery mistakes often cause permanent nerve damage like Erb’s Palsy, Brachial Plexus injuries, and shoulder dystocia.
- Medication mistakes: Inducing labor through inappropriate use of Pitocin or committing an infant medication error in the neonatal unit.
- Failure to diagnose & monitor: Failing to recognize a high-risk pregnancy, failing to detect umbilical cord complications such as prolapse, or failing to screen for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).
Parents must remain vigilant in the days following delivery. Common signs your newborn may be suffering from an undiagnosed birth injury include unexplained bruising, poor muscle control, limb immobility, seizures, or a child who requires resuscitation at birth. In many cases, families don’t make the connection to clinical negligence until years later, when a toddler displays missed developmental milestones or signs of irreversible brain damage.
Birth Injuries That Can Form the Basis of a Claim in Miami
Thousands of cases of birth injuries occur every year in the United States. While some injuries are simply the result of the natural birthing process and will heal on their own within a few days or weeks, birth injuries that are caused by the negligence of a medical professional can have long-lasting effects that may prevent your child from living a full, happy life. Birth injuries range in severity and include:
- Brachial Plexus
- Brain Cooling Injury
- Breech Birth Injury
- Cephalohematoma
- Cerebral Palsy
- Erb’s Palsy
- Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
- Infant Medication Error
- Labor & Delivery Complications
- Newborn Broken Bones
- Pediatric Stroke
- Preeclampsia
- Retinal Detachment
- Retinopathy Of Prematurity (ROP)
- Shoulder Dystocia
- Umbilical Cord Complications
- Vacuum Extraction
Our Miami birth injury attorneys can request medical records, investigate your childbirth process, and get to the root cause of your child’s birth injury. We will then advise you about your legal options in pursuing a birth injury lawsuit against the responsible party. We will also collect evidence to show how medical negligence occurred and handle communications and negotiations with insurers. If we cannot settle your case outside of court, we don’t shy away from going to trial.
Who Can Be Held Liable for Delivery Room Negligence?
Pinpointing the exact source of a medical error requires an exhaustive independent investigation. A typical labor and delivery process involves many healthcare professionals. A mistake made by any of them could have lifelong consequences for your child. Depending on the unique facts of your delivery, your birth injury lawyer in Miami may pursue a legal claim against multiple negligent parties:
- Your doctor, including your obstetrician or the doctor who delivered your baby
- The nurse(s) who assisted with your childbirth
- The anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist who prepared your epidural
- The hospital, clinic, or specialized birthing center where you delivered
- The midwife who managed your labor care
- The pharmacy or pharmacist who gave the wrong dose of medication
It takes an experienced Miami birth injury attorney to know who to sue in a lawsuit. Hospitals are made up of complex corporate structures, and doctors and nurses are often employed by entities other than the hospital.
Getting to the bottom of the corporate entities and their insurance policies is key to a successful recovery. Furthermore, a thorough evaluation may reveal systemic biases; our firm actively monitors the alarming links between racial disparities and birth injury malpractice in Florida hospitals to ensure all families receive equal protection under the law.
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We appreciate everything you did for us. Staying with us. Being patient with us. And, most importantly believing in us. Our family will forever have a feeling of gratitude for all that you have done.
I have tremendous respect and appreciation for Phil Freidin. He is a powerful and kind lawyer. He has proven to me that he genuinely cares about his clients; however, he is a force to be reckoned with in the conference and court rooms.
Jonathan impressed me with his professionalism and expertise! Jonathan and Lizy handled my Medical Malpractice case with skill and secured a favorable outcome! They were responsive and kept me informed throughout my process. I highly recommend them to my Family and Friends!
They were not even able to take on my case, but the person who did my intake and the lawyer I spoke to were incredibly validating, kind, and helpful. I appreciated the care and time they gave me even when I did not become a client.
Jonathan, Phil, and the rest of the Freidin Brown attorneys were both professional and compassionate. They were always responsive to my family and me, and they have a deep dedication to their clients. I highly recommend the great lawyers at this firm!
My experience with Freidin Brown was above my expectations. Philip Freidin took my case and settlement to finish line with amazing results. I highly recommend this Law Firm.
Our family was referred to Freidin Brown by another attorney who could not handle our case and from day one we felt like we were in good hands. Johnathan Freidin was always available and willing to answer any questions we had. We are extremely happy with the results of our case and would recommend this team in a heartbeat.
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Our Miami Birth Injury Lawyers Are Ready to Fight for Your Child’s Future
At Freidin Brown, P.A., your Miami birth injury lawyer will pursue the compensation your family needs to adjust. After a birth injury takes part of the joy away from your child’s birthday, the lawsuit may or may not be the last thing on your mind. Our attorneys will take care of the legal matters while you focus on your family. Reach out to us online to schedule your free consultation or call us today to get started.
Miami Birth Injury FAQs
While our Miami birth injury law firm is available 24/7 to help families that want to learn more about their rights and our services, we also know how important it is that victims have the facts they need when they are just beginning to explore their options. That’s why we have taken the time to answer some of the most common birth injury questions we receive below.
What are the signs of birth injury?
Various injuries can occur during the birth of your child. From bruising to broken bones, from severe brain damage to stillbirth, many things can go wrong during labor and delivery and result in lifelong struggles for your newborn and your family.
Not all birth injuries rise to the level of medical malpractice or negligence. If you believe a medical mistake may be to blame for your child’s injuries, our Miami birth injury lawyers would be happy to discuss your legal options during a complimentary consultation.
How do I know I have a valid birth injury case in Miami?
Whether you have a case can be difficult to determine on your own. While every case is unique and dependent upon the individual circumstances and set of facts involved, families generally have the right to pursue a birth injury case against the responsible healthcare providers if it can be shown that birth injuries were caused by substandard care provided by a doctor, nurse, or some other healthcare professional who treated patients during pregnancy, labor, or delivery.
Substandard care usually arises from negligence, which is a medical professional’s failure to provide treatment or care that any other careful medical professional in the same or similar situation would have provided. Understanding negligence and whether the conduct of medical professionals in your case rises to that standard is a matter best evaluated by lawyers who regularly handle medical malpractice cases.
What will a successful Miami birth injury lawsuit provide?
Successful birth injury lawsuits are important for several reasons. First and foremost, they hold negligent healthcare providers accountable for negligent and careless acts that cause harm and can help ensure those types of mistakes are avoided in the future through the changes hospitals and other providers often enact after lawsuits.
They are also critical to providing families with a sense of justice and providing financial compensation for their damages – including their economic damages (for things like medical expenses, lost income, and future medical or financial needs) and non-economic damages (which cover intangible losses and emotional injuries such as pain and suffering, mental anguish, and more).
Because the outcome of a birth injury lawsuit is so important to families and their futures, working with proven Miami birth injury attorneys becomes crucially important.
Do I need a lawyer for my Miami birth injury case?
There are no laws requiring you to have legal representation when bringing a birth injury lawsuit, but working with a lawyer can protect your rights and put yourself in the best position to maximize the outcome.
Birth injury and medical malpractice lawsuits are known for being challenging legal cases, as they involve complex laws and very technical medical information that requires investigation, medical expert collaboration, and extensive experience to effectively build. These cases are also very expensive since you must have medical experts testifying in support of your case.
By working with the birth injury lawyers at Freidin Brown, P.A., you will benefit from caring and compassionate advocates who truly care about your future and making you whole. We have the required experience, resources, and connections for these matters and can take care of everything from start to finish.
We put up all the costs and expenses of litigating your claim – and we are only reimbursed if we obtain a recovery for you. Our lawyers have a proven record in birth injury cases and are prepared to put our insight to work for you.
Freidin Brown, P.A.
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