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Birth Defect Attorneys

If your child suffers from an anomaly in the birth caused by negligence, you are entitled to compensation. These damages can include medical expenses or lost income as well as punitive damages, in certain instances.

A Pompano Beach injury attorney can help you recover compensation to cover your child's injuries and future medical expenses. Common causes of birth defects are medical malpractice, defective drugs, and toxic exposure.

Medical Malpractice

The medical professionals who take care of your child could have an impact on the future of your family. If they make mistakes that result in birth defects or injuries that can lead to years of financial challenges and an entire lifetime of physical and emotional stress for your infant.

Birth injury lawyers can assist you in filing a claim to recover compensation against the parties who are responsible for your child's medical problems. It could be a doctor, a hospital or even something that occurred before your child was born. A Queens birth defect lawyer can review your situation and provide valuable insights, and connect you with medical professionals to review the evidence.

A doctor could make a mistake which leads to birth defects for instance when they prescribed medication that could have increased the chance of your baby's illness or if they failed to perform certain tests and screenings during pregnancy. These are all examples of medical malpractice that could be grounds for a lawsuit. If you think that a medical error caused birth defects in your child, you are entitled to compensation for your past and future health care expenses. A successful lawsuit will also compensate you for the loss of income, your emotional distress, as well as any other losses you've experienced.

Defective Drugs

Prescription drugs, over-the counter medications, chemical exposures at work or home, and environmental hazards are at fault for a variety of birth defects. Unfortunately, these medical issues can be very costly. Parents often ask how the condition of their child came about and where to turn as the bills pile up for costly treatments and procedures.

Drug manufacturers must test their products rigorously before they are released for sale and must anticipate any potential side effects. They could be held accountable for lawsuits involving product liability filed by consumers when they fail to do this. An knowledgeable birth defect attorney can determine if the medication is defective and at fault for your child's health issues.

If you think that the birth defect of your child is linked to a specific drug begin by writing down your symptoms and keeping the medication packaging and receipts. Also, note the date that you first noticed symptoms in your child. This is essential to determining the statute of limitations for filing a claim.

If your child was exposed to a toxic substance that contributed to the condition, you have only one year to start a lawsuit. A birth defect lawyer can assist you to build an effective case and ensure that your child's legal rights are secured. They can also assist you obtain the financial assistance needed to cover the cost of treatment.

Toxic Exposure

Birth defects are serious issues which affect the structure of various parts of a child's body. Environmental toxins, adverse effects of certain medications and genetic or chromosomal abnormalities or other causes may cause birth defects.

The team at Levy Konigsberg LLP is dedicated to helping families learn about the causes of birth defects and how they can pursue compensation from responsible parties. Our attorneys collaborate with a network of medical experts to determine whether an individual birth defect is due to exposure to chemicals or other environmental factors.

Managing partner and senior trial lawyer David Strouss is a leader in birth defect litigation. He defends clients against large corporations that have exposed them to harmful chemicals. He has handled thousands cases in the United States and across the globe. He was the prosecutor in some of the first birth defect lawsuits that involved glycol ether and other solvent exposures in semiconductor manufacturing and in the agriculture industry; pesticide sprays or drift exposures from crop dusters, and exposure to heavy metals like lead.

Victoria Phillips concentrates on complex product liability litigation, which includes 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 recovered millions in settlements on behalf of her clients. She is experienced in all types of litigation, including class action and mass tort claims.

Product Liability

Although modern medical technology has greatly reduced the risks associated with childbirth birth injuries and birth defects remain frequent. These conditions can have a major impact on the lives of parents and children.

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

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

If a child is born with a birth defect due to someone else's negligent act or failure to act and act accordingly, the child may be entitled to compensation. The compensation is paid to the victim and placed in trust on behalf of the child.

At Phillips & Paolicelli, our Queens birth defect attorneys focus on the causes of environmental origins of these disorders and work with a nationwide network of lawyers to investigate allegations of exposure to teratogen chemicals that cause developmental delays, congenital disabilities and other serious birth defects. Managing partner Diane Paolicelli has dedicated her thirty years of legal career to exposing women who have been exposed to mercury, arsenic, and other toxic heavy chemical compounds that cause birth defects and reproductive issues in children.