Birth Injury Claims

Birth injury claims can be initiated if any injury that takes place during the process of childbirth can be termed as a birth injury. A birth injury can be physical damage like a skull fracture, broken bones, or arm or face paralysis. The essential aspect of childbirth is the delivery of a healthy baby after the end of pregnancy. However, unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen.

Sometimes, the medical staff commits unfortunate mishappenings that cause injury to the baby or the mother. These injuries to the infant can still be seen months or years after birth. We will help you walk through the process that is involved in the process of Birth Injury Claims.

There are two types of medical issues an infant can have. They are birth injuries and congenital disabilities. For, birth injury claim, you and your solicitor need to understand the difference between the two.

Birth injuries take place during or immediately post the delivery process. It can range from a broken bone, nerve injury or brain damage. Sometimes, birth injuries can be inevitable. However, it can also be a result of negligence from the medical team.

A congenital disability develops when the baby grows in the mother’s womb and can impact any part of a baby’s body. The defect can be completely natural but can also be caused due to the hospital’s toxins or medications.

First, you have to determine the cause of the birth injury, that is, if the reason is due to the fault of medical professionals or is it natural (as discussed above). You can do it by examining the kind of injury that the baby has gone through. The injuries faced by a newborn as a result of medical negligence may have different medical complications. Such trauma can cause long term effects on the life of the child.

Here are some of the very common birth injuries:

Pregnancy Malpractice/Maternal Birth Injury

Birth injury claims are legal claims that a parent can file on behalf of a child if they have suffered from an injury during or soon after the delivery. It can be a result of medical negligence, but it also can be natural. You need to be careful while making such a claim. Before you start a claim, you should be ready with enough evidence to prove that the injury resulted from the negligence of the medical team. This is where our team can help you.

Primarily, we will provide you with a legal team with expertise in handling birth injury cases and medical malpractice. Based on the situation, the legal time limit for Birth Injury Claim keeps varying. It is paramount to keep in mind that medical negligence cases take a certain time frame in place in which you can bring up your respective claims.

For Birth Injury Claims, the set period is two years less a day following the incident’s date. The period can also be two years less a day following the date one claims the illness/injury was due to medical negligence. If you would like to discuss your case in a private and confidential manner please get in touch with our specialist team today.

If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to call us on 01 8344255. Alternatively you can simply request a callback and a member of our staff will contact you as soon as possible.

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We were instructed by a client in relation to a claim against a Maternity Hospital in Dublin. Our client delivered her child naturally. However, the hospital failed to detect that a portion of the placenta was missing.