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Columbus Birth Injury Lawyers
Strong advocacy when delivery doctors in Ohio commit medical malpractice
Every mother and father dreams of all the ways they’ll love, nurture, and raise their child. They dream of teaching them about the past and hope they’ll have a wonderful future. It’s devastating to learn that your child has suffered birth injuries and birth trauma. It’s crushing to learn that those injuries were preventable. At Crandall & Pera Law, we’ve been fighting for children and parents for 30 years. We work with physicians who can explain what went wrong in the delivery room and why the delivery doctors should be held accountable. We’re skilled at showing the full range of medical care your newborn will need and all the ways those hopes and dreams for your child have become much more stressful and complicated.
We have an impressive record of results in birth injury cases, including:
- A $4.65 million settlement for a little girl who was born with brain damage because the nurses and obstetrician failed to provide competent medical care. Worse, the nurses falsified records about calls to the obstetrician that were never made. The settlement funds are being used for the child’s education, equipment, housing, and nursing care.
- A $4.6 million settlement for a young, happily married woman who died when she developed an infection that wasn’t treated in a timely manner, causing her death during a forced labor. The settlement is helping the husband and children rebuild their lives.
- A confidential settlement on behalf of a family when a 34-year-old married mother of two boys died during a C-section due to injuries to her intestines and an undiagnosed infection.
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Table of Contents
- What types of birth injury cases do your Columbus lawyers handle?
- Why do birth injuries happen in Columbus?
- Who is responsible when negligence causes birth injuries?
- How do you fight for newborns and families when birth injuries happen in Columbus?
- How much is my child’s birth injury claim worth?
- Do you have a Columbus birth injury lawyer near me?
What types of birth injury cases do your Columbus lawyers handle?
Our Columbus birth injury lawyers represent newborns and their parents when their babies are born with any type of serious birth injury or birth trauma, including:
- Cerebral palsy. According to the Cleveland Clinic, cerebral palsy (CP) is a neurological condition caused by damage to the brain. Medical malpractice, such as a lack of oxygen to the brain during the delivery, is a common cause of CP. Cerebral palsy affects your child’s ability to control their muscles. CP can cause movement disorders, delayed development, spasms, brain disorders, paralysis, difficulty swallowing, and many other complications.
- Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE). This birth injury may occur during a difficult birth. It occurs when your child’s brain doesn’t get enough oxygen or blood. HIE is life-threatening. HIE can cause severe brain damage.
- Brachial plexus injury. This birth injury involves sudden damage to the network of nerves that branch off from your baby’s spinal cord in the neck and run down into the shoulder, arm, and hand. A brachial plexus birth injury may cause loss of movement, weakness, and pain in the affected areas. Common causes include the improper use of forceps and vacuum extractors.
- Erb’s palsy. This birth injury is a type of brachial plexus injury that affects the nerves in your child’s shoulder or arm. Erb’s palsy can occur during a difficult vaginal birth or a Cesarean
- Klumpke’s palsy. This is another type of brachial plexus injury that commonly affects the wrist and hand.
Our Columbus birth injury lawyers also handle the following types of delivery malpractice injuries:
- Bleeding in the brain and swelling
- Complications from delayed or negligent cesarean section (C-section)
- Preeclampsia complications
- Cervical torticollis
- Chorioamnionitis
- Facial paralysis
- Fetal lacerations
- Horner’s syndrome
- Infant meningitis
- Infections made worse by the failure to administer antibiotics
- Intracranial hemorrhage
- Ischemic brain damage due to trauma
- Ischemic brain damage due to Pitocin administration
- Kernicterus
- Learning disabilities
- Loss of hearing
- Periventricular leukomalacia
- Pregnancy-induced hypertension/HELLP syndrome/postpartum cerebral angiopathy
- Sepsis
- Shoulder dystocia
- Skull fractures
- Stroke
- Seizures
- Spinal cord damage
- Stillbirths
If your child died due to medical malpractice during the delivery, we file a wrongful death action on behalf of the parents.
We handle both injuries to your child and to the mother.
Why do birth injuries happen in Columbus?
At Crandall & Pera Law, our lawyers work with physicians who can explain what went wrong in the delivery room and why the hospital, obstetricians, nurses, and other responsible healthcare providers should be held liable. We also work with medical specialists who are skilled at treating your newborn’s specific birth injury.
Birth injuries are due to many causes, including:
- Failing to anticipate and monitor the common complications that may arise during the delivery or after the delivery
- Improperly using forceps and vacuum extractors
- Failing to competently respond to emergencies
- Failing to treat infections in a timely manner
- Failing to continually examine the vital signs of the mother and child during the delivery
- Failing to recognize fetal distress
- Failing to perform a Cesarean when necessary
- Failing to monitor the medications given to the mother and child
- Failing to handle umbilical complications.
- Using more force than necessary
- Many other causes
Who is responsible when negligence causes birth injuries?
Our Columbus birth injury lawyers file medical malpractice claims against everyone responsible for your child’s birth injuries. The defendants may include:
- The birth delivery doctors
- The healthcare providers who provided pre-delivery and post-delivery care of the mother and child
- The hospital where your baby was born
- Anesthesiologists
- Midwives
- Emergency care providers, including paramedics
- Other healthcare providers
How do you fight for newborns and families when birth injuries happen in Columbus?
Clients and lawyers recommend Crandall & Pera Law because of our track record of successful cases. We’ve been strong advocates for birth injury victims and families for 50 years.
We fight for families when medical malpractice during the birth of a child occurs in many ways, including:
- Working with our network of expert obstetricians and doctors to determine what went wrong during the delivery and what steps the delivery team should have taken to prevent harm and birth trauma to your child.
- Conducting discovery of every procedure and instrument that was used during the delivery.
- Reviewing when and how the delivery doctors responded to any emergencies.
- Reviewing the steps the delivery doctors took to anticipate and monitor any complications.
- Conducting discovery (questions and answers) of everyone involved in the delivery of your child.
- Contesting the common defense argument that the delivery doctors didn’t cause your child’s birth injuries.
- Properly valuing how much your birth injury claim is worth.
- Determining what medical care your child will need for the rest of their life.
Determining what your child’s quality of life will be if your child has cerebral palsy, a brachial plexus injury, or any other birth injury.
How much is my child’s birth injury claim worth?
At Crandall & Pera Law, we fight to give your child the best chance for a complete life. Our lawyers work with our own network of doctors and with life-care planners when necessary to show the full range of treatments and care your child will need. These doctors also review all the challenges and complications your child will face – and the ways his/her life will be changed because of the birth injuries.
Birth injury damages include:
- All your child’s medical bills for the rest of your child’s life
- The loss of physical and cognitive function
- Any scarring or disfigurement
- All of your child’s lifetime of pain and suffering
- The loss of income of the parents because they need to take time off to care for their child
- All other damages that Pennsylvania law permits
Usually, birth injury verdicts and settlements are placed in a trust or annuity to pay the medical expenses as they become due, for all other needs, and so your child can live the best life possible.
If your child died during delivery due to medical malpractice, we file a wrongful death action against the responsible healthcare providers. While no amount of money can ever replace your child, we’re skilled at demanding all the compensation parents deserve for the death of a baby.
Do you have a Columbus birth injury lawyer near me?
Crandall & Pera Law meets parents and their newborns at our Columbus office located at 35 E. Gay St. #226. If either your child or the mother is too ill to come to our office, we will make alternate arrangements to meet with you, including visiting your home, making phone calls, and having video conferences.
Our medical malpractice lawyers will guide you through each step of the claims process.
Speak with our respected Columbus birth injury lawyers now
The doctors and other healthcare providers responsible for your child’s birth injuries will have experienced high-priced lawyers on their side. You need attorneys who have the experience, resources, and reputation to strongly advocate for your child. At Crandall & Pera Law, LLC, we’re respected by former clients, insurance companies, and the legal community for our litigation skills and our dedication to our clients. Call us now or complete our contact form to schedule a free consultation. We also represent birth injury victims and families in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chagrin Falls, Chesterland, Ohio– and Lexington, Kentucky.