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Birth Defect Attorneys

If your child is suffering from a birth defect caused by negligence you may be entitled to damages. These damages can include medical expenses, lost wages and punitive damages in a few cases.

A Pompano Beach injury lawyer can help you obtain compensation for injuries to your child and future medical expenses. Common causes of birth defects include medical malpractice, defective drugs, and toxic exposure.

Medical Malpractice

Medical professionals who look after your children can have a significant impact on the future of your family. If they make a misstep that causes birth defects or injuries your child may be faced with years of financial hardship as well as physical and emotional struggles throughout their lives.

Birth injury lawyers can help you in filing a claim to recover compensation against those accountable for your child's medical problems. This could be a doctor, a hospital or an event that occurred prior to your child's birth. A Queens birth defect lawyer will analyze your case, provide important information, and connect you with medical experts who will examine the evidence.

A doctor may make a mistake which leads to birth defects for instance, if they prescribed medication that could have increased the risk of the condition in your baby or failing to conduct certain tests and screenings throughout pregnancy. These are examples of medical malpractice which could be the basis for an action. If you believe that a medical error caused an anomaly in the birth of your child, you are entitled to compensation for your past and future health-related expenses. A successful lawsuit could compensate you for your loss of income, emotional stress or any other loss that you've experienced.

Defective Drugs

Many birth defects are caused by prescription medications, over-the-counter medications as well as exposure to chemicals at the home or workplace and other environmental dangers. Unfortunately, these medical conditions can be very costly. Parents often question what caused their child's health condition and where to go when costs for costly treatments and procedures pile up.

Drug makers must thoroughly test their products before they are sold, and are expected to anticipate any potential side effects. They could be held responsible for lawsuits involving product liability filed by consumers if they fail to do this. An expert birth defect lawyer can help determine whether the medication is defective and at fault for your child's health problems.

If you suspect that the birth defect you are seeing in your child is caused by drugs, note your symptoms and save the packaging as well as receipts. Also, note the date you first began to notice symptoms in your child. This information is crucial to determining the time limit to file a claim.

You have one year to file a lawsuit if your child was exposed any toxic substance that caused the condition. A birth defect lawyer can help you create a strong case and ensure that your child's rights are secured. They can also provide the financial aid you need to cover the costs of necessary treatment.

Exposure to Toxic Chemicals

Birth defects are serious issues that alter the structure of one or more areas of the body of a newborn. They may be caused by environmental toxins, side effects of certain medications, or genetic or chromosomal abnormalities.

Levy Konigsberg LLP's staff is committed to helping families understand what causes birth defects and how they can pursue compensation from the parties responsible. Our attorneys collaborate with medical experts to determine the likelihood that a birth defect could be caused by exposure to chemicals or environmental factors.

Managing partner and senior trial lawyer David Strouss is a leader in birth defect litigation, and has been able to defend clients against major corporations that expose them to toxic chemicals. He has handled thousands of cases across the country and around the world. He was the prosecutor in some of the first birth defect lawsuits, involving glycol ether and other solvent exposures in semiconductor manufacturing as well as in the agricultural industries; pesticide spray or drift exposures by crop dusters, and exposure to heavy-metals like lead.

Victoria Phillips focuses on complex product liability litigation and birth defect cases. She graduated from Williams College with a magna sum laude and Columbia Law School. She was an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan's District Attorney's Office before joining the firm. She has recouped millions of dollars in settlements for clients and is an expert in all sorts of litigation, including mass tort and class action claims.

Product Liability

While modern medical technology has drastically reduced the risks associated with childbirth birth injuries and birth defects are frequent. These issues can have a significant impact on the quality of life of infants and their parents.

While many birth injuries and defects result from genetic or environmental factors but they can also be caused by the negligence of health professionals during pregnancy or the birth. These mistakes can be caused by prescribing wrong medications or failing to monitor the mother for signs of prenatal damage.

The distinction between a birth injury and a birth defect could be confusing. Birth injuries are common during labor and delivery. Birth defects, however, develop within the womb. They can have a long-term impact on the fetus's overall body structure and function.

If a baby is born with an anomaly in the birth because of someone else's negligence decision or inaction and act accordingly, the child may be entitled to compensation. The compensation is paid to the person who suffered and is placed in trust on behalf of the child.

Our Queens birth defects lawyers at Phillips & Paolicelli focus on environmental causes and work with a national network of lawyers to investigate claims of exposure to teratogens chemicals that have been linked to congenital and developmental delays. Managing partner Diane Paolicelli has dedicated her 30 years of legal practice to defending women who have been exposed to arsenic, mercury and other toxic heavy chemical and metals that cause birth defects and reproductive issues in infants.