Birth Injury

Injuries to the child and to the parent

People search cerebral palsy, a brachial plexus injury after shoulder dystocia, a delayed C-section, and injuries to the parent during labor. These are searches, not diagnoses this desk can make. The hospital and the date of birth are what route the file.

Parents also search how long they have to file, including whether a child’s deadline is different from an adult’s. Send the hospital and the date. Do not send full fetal-monitor strips in the first message.

What to say first

Who was hurt, the hospital, and the date. The county of the hospital matters if you know it. Philadelphia delivery hospitals and suburban hospitals are referred on the place of the care.

Nothing on this page is a prediction of what a case is worth, and it is not legal advice. A message asks the desk to review the facts and refer them.

What to send

Injuries to a parent or a child around labor and delivery. Name the hospital and the date. Do not send full records in the first message.

The useful first facts are the place, the date, the court if there is one, and what happened. Records can wait until a lawyer asks for them.

How a referral works

A message asks the desk to read the facts and refer them to a lawyer who handles this work. It does not hire that lawyer, and it does not create an attorney-client relationship.

The lawyer who receives the introduction decides whether to take the matter and talks with you about deadlines and fees.

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