Texas Birth Injury Attorneys

If your child is seriously injured during the birth process, a doctor, nurse or other healthcare professional may be held liable for the harm they caused. Such cases fall under medical malpractice, a type of personal injury law.

Whether a doctor’s or other medical professional’s negligence or carelessness is attributed to your pregnancy or delivery, birth injury cases are often considered the most complex and difficult of all medical malpractice claims. Proving negligence in the practice of medicine requires in-depth knowledge, expertise derived from experience and careful investigation of the circumstances surrounding a birth. At the Talaska Law Firm, located in Houston, our attorneys blend a wealth of experience with a specialized skill set in personal injury trial law to build substantive birth injury cases.

Birth Situations Leading to Infant Injuries

The firm’s dedicated medical malpractice attorneys and their support staff, have successfully represented families in a broad scope of birth injury cases including those arising from:

Our Birth Injury Practice

The firm’s dedicated medical malpractice attorneys and their support staff, have successfully represented families in a broad scope of birth injury cases including those arising from:

  • Lack of oxygen at critical stages of delivery that causes cerebral palsy
  • Shoulder dystocia causing nerve trauma in the neck and shoulder and resulting in brachial plexus injuries, which is sometimes called Erb’s palsy.
  • Severe swelling or bruising of a baby’s head (caput succedaneum)
  • Bleeding in the baby’s cranial region, (cephalohematoma, often caused by forceps-related injury)
  • Forceps lacerations or bruising
  • Fractures
  • Facial paralysis
  • VBAC (Vaginal birth after a previous Cesarean section) – Failure to properly advise about the risks of VBAC
  • Amniocentesis complications
  • Failure to treat complications from fetal-maternal hemorrhage
  • Failure to properly manage shoulder dystocia
  • Traumatic use of vacuum extractors
  • Misinterpretation of fetal monitor strips
  • Misinterpreting pregnancy ultrasounds
  • Misdiagnosis of prenatal tests including non-stress tests and biophysical profiles
  • Failure to timely carry out a Cesarean section
  • Failure to properly care for a critically ill newborn
  • Failure to properly incubate a newborn
  • Failure to prevent preterm deliveries
  • Failure to properly arrest preterm labor
  • Failure to timely administer anti-seizure medications
  • Failure to properly manage malpresentations including transverse lie positions and breech deliveries
  • Failure to properly manage jaundice

Dedicated, Compassionate Legal Help

Favorable birth injury case verdicts and settlements customarily require a substantial investment of time and money and often depend on expert testimony to verify and help prove the cause and extent of the injury.

At the Talaska Law Firm, we have built a strong network of highly qualified and regarded medical experts, who help us bring credibility to your claims and provide clear evidence of the cause of your child’s injury, as well as its short-term and long-term financial costs.

Our attorneys make every effort to negotiate favorable settlements. However, we thoroughly prepare every case and are always ready to present to a jury, if that is what it takes to obtain full and fair compensation to meet the needs and long term care of your child.

Free Birth Injury Case Evaluation

If you suspect your child suffered serious injury during birth or while under hospital care, take advantage of the Talaska Law Firm’s no cost, no obligation case evaluation. One of our experienced birth injury attorneys will be glad to meet with you to determine whether you have grounds for a lawsuit. Call our Houston law firm (713) 869-1240 or toll-free at (888) 791-5191 to find out if The Talaska Law Firm can help your family.

At the Talaska Law Firm in Houston, we represent individuals throughout Texas and nationwide.