Texas Birth Injury Lawyer

For parents and their families, the birth of a child is a joyful occasion. Unfortunately, the happy event can turn to heartbreak, when a newborn is seriously injured through medical negligence.

Most babies are born without complications yet pregnancy, labor and delivery are not without risk. Doctors and nurses must be prepared to deal with a variety of unexpected difficulties, which may stem from the mother’s health, premature birth, prolonged labor and a breech birth to adverse effects of prescription drugs on the mother or baby.

The Talaska Law Firm, located in Houston focuses its practice exclusively on birth injury law. Throughout Texas and nationwide, parents whose children have died or were seriously injured through medical malpractice turn to the Talaska Law firm for legal expertise to pursue justice on their behalf. We do not represent insurance companies, HMOs, doctors, hospitals, or other healthcare providers.

Attorney Robert Talaska is certified in personal injury law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Blending a wealth of experience in birth injury cases with a specialized skill set, our firm’s dedicated attorneys and support staff, have successfully represented families in a broad scope of birth injury cases including:

  • Failure to recognize and respond to umbilical cord prolapse
  • Failure to diagnose placental abruption
  • VBAC (Vaginal birth after a previous Cesarean section) – Failure to properly advise about the risks of VBAC
  • Failure to diagnose complications of umbilical cord compression
  • Failure to recognize signs and symptoms of uterine rupture
  • Amniocentesis complications
  • Failure to treat complications from fetal-maternal hemorrhage
  • Failure to diagnose fetal distress
  • Failure to properly manage shoulder dystocia
  • Failure to diagnose placental previa
  • Failure to diagnose fetopelvic disproportion
  • Traumatic use of forceps
  • 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 timely diagnose neonatal hypoglycemia or low blood sugar
  • 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 diagnose and manage hydrocephalus and intraventricular hemorrhage
  • Failure to properly manage jaundice
  • Failure to timely diagnose meningitis
  • Failure to diagnose gestational diabetes
  • Failure to diagnose and treat high blood pressure, toxemia, and pre-eclampsia during pregnancy

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If your child or infant has been injured during medical care, find out if medical malpractice underpins the injury. Our firm offers a free a case evaluation to determine whether you have grounds for a birth injury claim.

Contact the Talaska Law Firm today at (713) 869-1240 or toll free at (888) 791-5191 to arrange an appointment. We take medical malpractice cases on a contingency fee basis, which means there is no fee unless we recover on your behalf.

Houston birth injury lawyer represents clients throughout Texas and nationwide.