The 10 Most Scariest Things About Birth Defect Legal

Birth Defect Attorneys

If your child has a birth defect that is the result of negligence you may be entitled to compensation. These damages include medical costs, lost income and punitive damages in certain cases.

A Pompano Beach injury lawyer can assist you in recovering compensation for your child's injuries and future medical costs. Common causes of birth defects include medical malpractice, defective drugs and toxic exposure.

Medical Malpractice

Medical professionals who look after your children could be a significant influence on your family's future. If they make a mistake that results in birth injuries or defects that can lead to years of financial struggles and a lifetime of physical as well as emotional stress for your infant.

Birth injury lawyers can help you to file a claim for compensation against those accountable for your child's medical problems. This could be a doctor, a hospital or even something that occurred prior to your child's birth. A Queens birth defects attorney can review your situation and provide valuable information, and connect you with medical experts who will examine the evidence.

A doctor may make a mistake that can lead to birth defects, for example in the event that they prescribed a medication that could have increased the chance of your baby's illness or in the event that they failed to perform certain tests and screenings during pregnancy. These are all examples of medical malpractice that could be grounds for a lawsuit. If you believe that a medical error caused an anomaly in the birth of your child, you are entitled to compensation for your past as well as future health costs. A successful lawsuit could compensate you for the loss of income, emotional distress or birth any other loss that you've experienced.

Defective Drugs

Prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, birth chemical exposures at home or at work and environmental hazards are all at fault for a variety of birth defects. Unfortunately, these medical problems are very expensive. Parents often wonder how their child's illness came about and where to turn, as bills pile up for costly treatments and procedures.

Medicines are required to undergo thorough testing before they can be sold on the market, and drug makers are expected to anticipate any potential side effects. They could be held responsible for any product liability lawsuits filed by consumers if they fail to do this. An experienced birth defect lawyer can help determine if the defective medication is at fault for your child's health issues.

If you think that a birth defect in your child may be caused by drugs, note your symptoms and save the package and receipts. It is also important to record the date you first began to notice symptoms in your child. This information is crucial in determining the time limit to file an insurance claim.

If your child was exposed to a harmful substance that caused their condition, you've only one year to start a lawsuit. A skilled birth defect attorney can help you build an impressive case and take steps to ensure that your child's rights are protected. They can also offer the financial support you need to cover the costs of necessary treatment.

Exposure to toxic substances

Birth defects are serious issues that change the structure of one or more components of a baby's body. The effects of environmental toxins, certain medications genetic or chromosomal problems and other factors may cause birth defects.

The team at Levy Konigsberg LLP is dedicated to helping families understand the cause of birth defects and how they can seek compensation from responsible parties. Our lawyers collaborate with medical experts to determine the likelihood that a birth defect could be caused by chemical exposure or environmental factors.

The managing partner and senior trial lawyer David Strouss is a leader in birth defect litigation, and has been able to defend clients against large corporations that expose the children to harmful chemicals. He has handled thousands of cases in the United States and across the world. He prosecuted some of the first birth defect lawsuits involving glycol ether and other solvent exposures in semiconductor manufacturing as well as in agriculture industries; pesticide spray or drift exposures by crop dusters, and exposure to heavy-metals like lead.

Victoria Phillips focuses on complex legal cases involving product liability as well as birth defect cases. She graduated from Williams College with a magna sum laude and Columbia Law School. She was an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan's District Attorney's Office before joining the firm. She has recovered millions of dollars in settlements for clients and is an expert in all types litigation including mass tort and class action claims.

Product Liability

Birth defects and birth injuries continue to occur despite the fact that medical technology has drastically reduced the risks associated with pregnancy. These issues can have a significant impact on the quality of life of children and their parents.

While many birth problems and injuries result from environmental or genetic causes they may also be due to health care providers' negligence during pregnancy or during delivery. These mistakes include prescribing the wrong medication or not monitoring the mother for signs of prenatal damage.

The distinction between a birth injury and a birth defect can be confusing. Birth injuries are common during labor and delivery. Birth defects, however, occur during the womb. They can have a long-lasting impact on the fetus’ overall body structure and function.

If a child is born with an abnormality in birth because of someone else's negligence action or inability to act the way it should, the child could be entitled to compensation. The compensation is paid to the person who suffered, and it is held in trust on behalf of the child.

At Phillips & Paolicelli, our Queens birth defect lawyers focus on the environmental causes that cause these disorders and work with a national network of lawyers to investigate claims of exposure to teratogen chemicals that cause congenital disabilities, developmental delays, and other serious birth defects. Diane Paolicelli, managing partner and attorney, has dedicated her career for 30 years to reclaiming women who have been exposed to toxic chemical, heavy metals and heavy metals that cause birth defects and reproductive problems in children.