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Birth Injury Litigation Process | Philadelphia Personal Injury

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Birth Injury Causation

People sometimes ask me how is it that a birth injury can occur in America in the 21st century? And the answer is inattention by the doctors and/or the nurses. A woman comes into a hospital in labor or about to go into labor and that should be a safe process, but sometimes a nurse or a doctor or both of them is not properly attentive to the signs and symptoms of a fetus that’s in distress. Often the initial stages of the investigation of a birth injury case is akin to a detective story.

Winning a Birth Injury Lawsuit

We look back forensically and we try to see all of the pieces of the puzzle – where the nurses were, what the nurses did, when the physician came in, what the physician did, what drugs were administered or not administered. Our job is to carefully evaluate and study the labor and delivery records, especially including the fetal monitor strips to see whether they showed the telltale signs of fetal distress. If they do show those telltale signs and if prompt action was not taken to deliver the mother, then that often equates to medical negligence and gives rise to a lawsuit that can be successfully brought.

By: Shanin Specter

Birth Injury Litigation Process | Philadelphia Personal Injury

Birth Injury Causation

People sometimes ask me how is it that a birth injury can occur in America in the 21st century? And the answer is inattention by the doctors and/or the nurses. A woman comes into a hospital in labor or about to go into labor and that should be a safe process, but sometimes a nurse or a doctor or both of them is not properly attentive to the signs and symptoms of a fetus that’s in distress. Often the initial stages of the investigation of a birth injury case is akin to a detective story.

Winning a Birth Injury Lawsuit

We look back forensically and we try to see all of the pieces of the puzzle – where the nurses were, what the nurses did, when the physician came in, what the physician did, what drugs were administered or not administered. Our job is to carefully evaluate and study the labor and delivery records, especially including the fetal monitor strips to see whether they showed the telltale signs of fetal distress. If they do show those telltale signs and if prompt action was not taken to deliver the mother, then that often equates to medical negligence and gives rise to a lawsuit that can be successfully brought.

By: Shanin Specter