Birth Injury Claims
Birth Injury Claims - Protecting your Child
If your child has suffered a birth injury caused by medical staff involved in the delivery, then you could be entitled to claim for birth injury compensation.
Clearly financial compensation will never make up for your child’s condition, but it can help to provide for any care they may need. Crucially, it can relieve you and your family of some of the burden and hardship suffered as a result of a birth injury. Talking to anexpert birth injury solicitor at Pannone could help to secure your child’s future.
How long do parents have to make birth injury claim?
Special rules apply to birth injury claims, meaning that you can apply for compensation for a birth injury at any point before your child’s 18th birthday. Once they turn 18, the child or a guardian then has three years to initiate a claim. However, it is generally prudent to initiate a claim as soon as possible.
Common types of birth injury compensation claims
A birth injury can occur as a result of improper action taken by medical staff, or after failure to spot a known condition in the child and initiate the appropriate treatment.
Cerebral Palsy and other types of brain injury can occur as a result of improper forceps use or through lack of oxygen to the brain. This may be the case if the placenta becomes wrapped around the baby’s windpipe or there are delays in the delivery. Cerebral Palsy can also be caused by the failure of doctors and nurses to quickly diagnose and treat low blood sugar and other conditions in the child.
Mothers who have suffered physical injury during the delivery as a result of medical negligence may also be eligible to make a birth injury claim.
Speak to a birth injury claim solicitor
The first step in getting justice and compensation is to seek out the advice of a trusted and experiencedbirth injury lawyer. At Pannone we have extensive experience in handling birth injury claims, and will fight passionately on your behalf. Contact us on 0800 0382 382 for expert, honest advice from committed and passionate birth injury solicitors.
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