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A Phoenix Birth Injury Lawyer To Help You And Your Family

Our Phoenix birth injury lawyer knows there is nothing more exciting than the anticipated arrival of a newborn.  You get the baby’s room ready.  Make sure you have a crib and car seat.  Family and friends pitch in.  You have hopes and dreams for their future–sports, education, successful career, and more.  Then, in the blink of an eye, your hopes and dreams are destroyed.  Someone on the labor and delivery team fails to provide appropriate care resulting in life-altering injuries to, or death of, the baby.

Parents of children with birth injuries are in a difficult position. Caring for their child is an expensive and full-time job. It does not leave time for much else. Parents focus on caring for their child often to the detriment of their own health. You should not have to suffer because of a medical provider’s malpractice.

A Phoenix birth injury lawyer at Gage Mathers Law Group will fight to get you the compensation you need to obtain the best care for your child, relieve the burdens unnaturally thrust upon you, and work to make sure this does not happen to any other family.

With decades of experience representing birth injury victims, our Phoenix birth injury lawyer knows how to investigate your case to obtain maximum compensation for your family’s suffering.

How Can A Phoenix Birth Injury Lawyer Help Me?

There are many personal, financial, and legal hurdles a family faces when their child suffers a birth injury.  In the immediate aftermath of the injury, you should focus on your family and yourself.  A Phoenix birth injury lawyer can take the legal issues off your plate, which will help reduce your stress levels.

Our Phoenix birth injury lawyer will focus on:

• Help you pursue compensation: Children living with a birth injury may require expensive medical treatment throughout their lives.  If you have a case, we will fight to get you the money you need to provide for your child.  This could include making sure your child has adaptive equipment, nursing care, and funds to pay for other helpful therapies.
• Investigate your claim: Birth injury cases can take months or years to properly develop.  This can be frustrating, but it is necessary to make sure the right experts are on board.  The time is also necessary because you only get one shot at making a claim so it needs to be done right–most times it takes years to know the true nature of your child’s injuries and determine lifetime needs.
• Provide guidance throughout the process: Despite working on a contingency basis, meaning you pay nothing unless your claim successfully results in compensation, our team will be with you every step of the way.  Even if it takes years.

What Types of Cases Do Birth Injury Lawyers Take?

The typical Phoenix birth injury lawyer will not litigate cases involving temporary birth injuries or ones that lack serious consequences. All birth injury cases are time-consuming, often taking years to litigate, and very expensive to pursue, often costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses. Those two reasons are why our Phoenix birth injury lawyer focuses on birth injury cases involving catastrophic or life-altering injuries.

The typical birth injury cases our Phoenix birth injury lawyer sees include:

• Cerebral palsy (CP)
• Brachial plexus injury
• Brain injury, including hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)
• Preeclampsia
• Broken bones
• Erb’s palsy
• Meconium aspiration syndrome
• Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
• Nerve injury or damage
• Skull fracture
• Spinal cord injury

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common muscle disorder in children–affecting around 2 out of every 1,000 live births. Children with CP can have varying levels of disability, affecting motor function and cognitive ability. CP can occur from abnormal brain development or damage to the brain from trauma during labor and delivery.

Brachial plexus injury affects a network of nerves in the shoulder that controls movement and sensation in the arm, hand, and fingers. A brachial plexus injury occurs when these nerves are stretched, compressed, or completely ripped apart or torn away from the spinal cord.

Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is brain damage from a lack of oxygen to the baby’s brain. Lack of oxygen to the brain can cause permanent brain damage, CP, or even death. HIE can occur during preeclampsia, low maternal blood pressure, umbilical cord problems, prolonged labor, unusual fetal position, infections, or premature delivery.

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy complication of high blood pressure in the mother. High blood pressure can damage the mother’s liver and kidneys, typically around the 20th week of pregnancy. If left undiagnosed and untreated, preeclampsia can cause premature birth, placental abruption, lack of oxygen to the baby’s brain, organ damage,  eclampsia, and even death.

How Common Are Birth Injuries?

According to Birth Injury Guide, “of every 1,000 infants born in the United States, 6 to 8 of them are born with a birth injury.” Approximately 28,000 infants are born every year with a birth injury; put another way, 3 infants are born every hour with a birth injury. Research has shown that almost 50% of these birth injuries may be avoided by identification and planning for obstetrical risk factors.

How Much is My Birth Injury Case Worth?

It is difficult to predict what your birth injury case may be worth without knowing the full extent of your child’s damages. Our Phoenix birth injury lawyer will use experience and the expertise of life care planners to determine your child’s prognosis and future care needs. Prognosis and future care needs significantly influence the value of your birth injury case.

Birth injury compensation usually focuses on providing your family with enough money to cover the extensive medical expenses involved in raising a child with disabilities, as well as the supporting your child throughout their life.  Compensation may also be provided to mothers who are negligently injured during childbirth.

Birth injury cases can include compensation for:

• Home adaptations, aids, and equipment, including necessary physical modifications to the home.
• Past and future medical care, like specialist consultations, medications, surgical interventions, and other treatments associated with the immediate and long-term management of the injury;
• Physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and other rehabilitative services;
• Family counseling and psychological services;
• Vehicle modifications to make transportation easier;
• Potential lost earnings from a career; and
• Non-economic damages like the loss of enjoyment of life, pain and suffering, disfigurement, and interruption with the normal parent-child relationship