Birth Injury Lawyers

Advances in medical technology have made it easier to anticipate complications of pregnancy, labor and delivery. When the doctors, nurses and technicians entrusted with the baby’s care fail to see the signs or fail to follow proper procedure, permanent disabilities or death may result.

If you believe your baby was harmed through medical negligence, The Townsley Law Firm can help you pursue justice. Our attorneys have successfully sued physicians and hospitals for medical malpractice resulting in birth injury or infant death. Our Lake Charles law firm represents parents throughout southwest Louisiana.

Do you have grounds for a birth injury lawsuit? Contact our birth injury medical malpractice lawyers at 337-377-0584 or by email for a free consultation.

Firm With Unique Medical Training

The Townsley Law Firm is a leader in medical malpractice litigation, including birth injury cases. Our legal team brings decades of collective legal experience as well as unique medical training and insights. This enables us to hold obstetricians (OB-GYN physicians), nurses and medical centers accountable for:

• Cerebral palsy and other brain injury
• Erb’s palsy and other nerve damage
• Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)
• Other birth defects or complications of delivery
• Complications during birth
• Stillbirth or neonatal death
• Injury or death of the mother

Children with birth injuries may require physical therapy, surgery, round-the-clock care and special services. We work to secure compensation for future care, for disability, for the child’s pain and suffering and for the parents’ mental anguish. Our verdicts and settlements include recoveries for birth injuries and wrongful death.

Maternal Malpractice: How Complication Turns Into Negligence

Obstetricians in Lake Charles have the responsibility to ensure you and your baby remain safe throughout all stages of pregnancy and delivery. Should they fail to meet the same standard of care that competent healthcare professionals can provide, you are at risk of having postpartum hemorrhage, bowel perforation, uterine rupture and septic shock.

Understanding how these conditions emerge involves learning the examples of obstetrician malpractice:

• Delayed C-section: A doctor and their team wait too long to decide whether to order a Caesarean (C-section) after the baby exhibits signs of distress.

• Surgical errors during C-section: A doctor accidentally leaves lacerations or bladder perforations while performing a C-section on the mother.

• Misuse of delivery tools: A medical team ends the prolonged labor by using vacuum extractors or forceps, which may cause injury to the mother and her baby.

• Failure to detect fetal position early: An obstetrician failed to maintain the standard of care by not checking the baby’s position before and during labor.

• Failure to treat post-delivery infections: The medical team ignores a mother’s sudden rise in temperature, increase in white blood cell counts or abdominal pain.

These medical outcomes should not occur if your obstetrician practiced safe delivery while considering all factors during labor. Experiencing any of these can be grounds for filing a medical malpractice case.

But before a lawsuit enters court, a medical review panel in Louisiana should occur first. This involves three healthcare providers in the relevant specialty and one non-voting attorney chairperson. Once the medical review panel renders its written opinion, you may move forward with filing your lawsuit in court.

Our birth trauma lawyer knows the shock that comes with discovering you may have sustained a permanent injury from childbirth. You can expect us to provide the legal guidance you need to seek compensation for you and your child’s damages. Since you only have one year from the date of the injury or discovery, our job is to build a strong claim fast to preserve your right to sue.

Demonstrating Medical Malpractice In Labor And Delivery

The defense lawyers for physicians, hospitals and their insurance carriers will attempt to discredit or downplay the lawsuit. The Townsley Law Firm works with qualified OB-GYN specialists and other medical professionals to evaluate cases and provide expert witness testimony.

We know how to read the medical records and how to uncover what was omitted or altered. Birth injuries may trace to prenatal care, such as errors in ultrasounds or failure to stop pre-term labor. Cerebral palsy usually stems from oxygen deprivation during labor, such as delay in performing a C-section. Erb’s palsy typically results from improper delivery technique when the baby is stuck in the birth canal.

Free Consultation For Birth Injury Claims

We are known throughout Louisiana for our results in medical negligence lawsuits, and for our compassionate support of clients throughout the process. For a free consultation and case evaluation, call our Lake Charles birth injury attorneys at 337-377-0584 or email our office.