Established on 1959, we are the premier medical negligence and obstetrical injury firm in California. For almost five decades our personal injury attorneys have successfully represented injured infants, and their parents, against hospitals, doctors, HMO’s, midwives, nurses, and others involved in the birth process who have caused injury or disability.
We represent clients of diverse backgrounds, mothers and fathers and children of every race, ethnicity, social standing or geographic location, who have suffered serious, lasting and catastrophic injury during the birth process. Our clients come from Northern California, Southern California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and the entire western United States. Our birth injury practice is, and has always been, dedicated to representing injured infants and those who love them. We do not represent insurance companies, corporations, or defendants in obstetrical injury or birth injury litigation. Our one and only goal is getting justice for the injured child, and securing financial compensation in order to provide for their medical, rehabilitation, nursing, attendant and medical care needs. Our birth injury specialists know that expecting and delivering a new baby should be a happy time for mothers and fathers, a time free from any medical injury or medical complications. We also know that birth injuries can occur at any point during a pregnancy – whether in the prenatal period, during delivery, during the post-natal period, or in the newborn nursery.
We have helped parents, grandparents and guardians of children with cerebral palsy, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, oxygen deprivation, Erbs palsy, shoulder dystocia, triplegia, cortical blindness, quadriplegia, spasticity, mental retardation, hydrocephalus, seizures and other obstetrical injuries occurring during the birth process.
We have worked with parents for the last fifty years on life care plans to provide the special treatment, occupational therapy, medication and attendant care that their children required.
Because of our specialized knowledge and experience in the field of obstetrical injury, birth trauma and cerebral palsy, we know how to build a life care plan that protects a child now and in the future. We are familiar with, and regularly consult with, specialists in the field of fetal monitoring and obstetrics. With a full-time physician on staff, we are able to quickly assess the quality of medical care by reviewing medical records and fetal monitoring tapes.
If you are a parent with a special needs child because of a birth injury, call us today. If your child has suffered injury before, during or after birth, our staff of specialized birth injury attorneys, including our doctor-lawyer, may be able to help.
While cerebral palsy can be caused by things other than birth trauma, our experts can quickly assess the management of your labor and delivery and make a threshold determination if your child's injury was related to oxygen deprivation in the birth process.
We have handled cases where negligence caused injury during forceps deliveries, vacuum extractions, extended second stage of labor, excessive use of Pitocin or other drugs, low amniotic fluid, twisted, compressed or compromised umbilical cords. cephalopelvic disproportion, babies who were too large for their gestational age, placental abruptions, placenta previa, eclampsia, and other complications which arise during the obstetrical and birth process. Our attorneys will analyze fetal heart rate monitor tracings and fetal Ph scalp sampling to determine if your infant was properly monitored. Contact us today if you have any question about the source or cause of your infant’s injuries or disabilities, or if you would like to learn more about your child’s right to recover benefits from a negligent healthcare provider.
If you are a Kaiser Permanent member, learn more about our birth injury practice as it relates to Kaiser by visiting http://www.kaiserinjurylawyers.com.
