How can you describe the loss your child experienced as the result of a preventable birth injury?
Lawyers at our firm, Metzger & Kleiner, realize that no financial settlement will ever make your family whole again if your child is living with permanent disabilities due to medical negligence during pre-natal care, delivery or in the hours and days following birth.
However, an insurance settlement or jury verdict can provide funds to help your family provide care, now and throughout your child's life. When calculating the loss from a birth injury, our lawyers work with medical experts, therapists and vocational experts to demonstrate the full value of fair compensation for your family's and your child's loss. If your baby died because of hospital or doctor negligence, you have a case for wrongful death.
If your child has been injured, contact us as soon as possible.
Contact our Lehigh Valley or Philadelphia office to make arrangements for a free consultation with an attorney experienced in evaluating medical malpractice and birth injury claims. We are committed to seeing that every family receives fair compensation for their loss.
Simple testing may have prevented your child's birth injury.
In many situations we find that the failure of a doctor or hospital to perform simple prenatal testing for gestational diabetes or pre-eclampsia results in inadequate prenatal care and serious injury.
If testing revealed evidence that the baby was too large for the birth canal, a cesarean section performed in a timely manner may prevent a forceps injury or shoulder dystocia injury causing permanent paralysis of the arm or shoulder (Erb's Palsy / brachial plexus palsy), or hypoxia and resulting brain damage and cognitive disorders.
Fetal monitoring may reveal fetal distress and the need for an emergency c-section.
Neonatal testing of a newborn to determine if the infant meets developmental standards for infant development, considering the baby's pre-term or full-term status, may have offered the opportunity to treat a condition immediately after birth.
Our birth injury lawyers represent families in insurance negotiations and in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout Pennsylvania, including Bucks County, Montgomery County, Chester County, Delaware County, Philadelphia County, Monroe County, Lackawanna County, Lehigh County and Northumberland County.
Metzger & Kleiner
Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia Birth Injury Lawyers
Cerebral Palsy - Shoulder Dystocia - Erb's Palsy - Brain Damage
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