Personal Injury Law

ANATOMY OF A BIRTH INJURY CASE

By Hurley, McKenna & Mertz

Parents who come to Hurley McKenna & Mertz seeking consultation regarding a potential birth injury case often have a common history. The mother usually has experienced a difficult delivery of her child, the family has a sense that the mother and child received negligent medical care from their obstetricians and nurses, and they have a child with severe deficits, a brain injury and often a diagnosis of cerebral palsy. Our firm must then decide which cases have merit and thus deserve an in-depth evaluation by my firm and its medical experts.
Birth injury cases often need two main elements: 1) clear and easily understandable negligence?i.e., evidence of a preventable mistake by the physicians or nurses caring for the laboring mother, and 2) strong evidence of fetal hypoxia or asphyxia at or near the time of birth.

Full post as published by Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawyer Blog on December 06, 2010 (boomark / email).