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Birth Injury Lawyers

The birth of a baby requires the assistance of an experienced medical professional to ensure that the delivery is a success and that your child is born healthy. However, if your medical practitioner fails to recognize the early warning signs of fetal distress, fails to act to prevent serious damage, or otherwise acts in a way that causes significant injury to your child, the results can be devastating.

While birth injuries can occur as a natural part of the birthing process, when a physician, midwife, or nurse is responsible for a preventable birth injury, it is important to seek help from a birth injury lawyer who can determine whether or not negligence occurred in your case. Trauma to the infant before, during and after delivery can result in serious injury, including:
Birth Injury — Newborn Baby Feet in Chicago, IL
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Brain Injury
  • Facial Paralysis
  • Brachial plexus/Erb’s Palsy/Shoulder dystocia
  • Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
  • Cephalohematoma
  • Uterine Rupture
  • Group B Strep infections
  • Meningitis
  • Spinal Cord Injury
  • Cranial Nerve Injury
  • Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Vacuum or Forceps Extraction Injuries
Proving a medical practitioner’s negligence can be difficult. The doctors and their insurance carriers will typically claim that the birth injuries already occurred in utero and that there was no way to avoid them. However, our Chicago birth injury lawyers will utilize careful investigation, diligent research, and credible expert testimony in order to prove a medical practitioner’s negligence.
Whatever injury your child has suffered, our Illinois birth injury attorneys are prepared to fight for justice on behalf of your child and any serious injury he or she may have sustained as a result of a negligent physician’s work.

If your child was injured before, during or after birth, or if your child suffers from cerebral palsy, contact the experienced Chicago medical malpractice attorneys at Shapiro, Cohen and Basinger, Ltd. for a free consultation. For more than 40 years, our medical malpractice attorneys have provided Illinois injury victims with expert legal representation. Our medical malpractice attorneys are well-versed in birth  injury issues, the medical field, and the law as it relates to medical malpractice.

The knowledge and experience of our medical malpractice lawyers enables us to aggressively take on large medical companies and insurance companies. Our medical malpractice lawyers have obtained record-breaking verdicts for our clients in Chicago, Illinois.

While winning any case depends on the facts, when you hire Shapiro, Cohen and Basinger, Ltd. you can be confident that our birth injury attorneys will do everything legally and ethically possible to fight for the maximum compensation that you need and deserve.
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