Lawsuit Update Center
A birth injury lawsuit is filed when a family believes a doctor, nurse, midwife, hospital, or newborn care team made a medical mistake that caused a preventable injury to a baby. These cases often involve cerebral palsy, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, neonatal seizures, brain damage, Erb’s palsy, brachial plexus injury, developmental delay, or another permanent disability.
If you are reading this page, you probably are not looking for a medical textbook. You are trying to understand what happened to your child. You may remember the monitor alarms, the nurse coming in and out, the doctor being called, the delay before the C-section, the baby not crying, the NICU transfer, the seizures, or the first time someone said “brain injury” or “cerebral palsy.” Families come to us because they want answers, and because those answers matter for the rest of their child’s life.
Hospitals and doctors fight these cases hard. The defense will argue the injury happened before labor, came from genetics, prematurity, infection, placental problems, maternal conditions, or an unavoidable emergency. Of course, sometimes that is true. But sometimes, far too often, the fetal monitor was screaming for help, the C-section was delayed, Pitocin was mismanaged, shoulder dystocia was handled poorly, or a newborn emergency was not treated fast enough.
