Birth Injuries

Hartford, Connecticut Birth Injury Lawyers
Birth Trauma • Cerebral Palsy • Shoulder Dystocia • Erb's Palsy

Birth injuries include injuries that occur to the mother or baby during the labor and delivery process. In these heartbreaking cases, the injury occurs due to something that happens in the birthing process, such as improper fetal monitoring or improper delivery techniques. Babies or mothers also may suffer serious injuries as a result of negligent prenatal care or care they receive after delivery. Some of the birth injuries and prenatal injuries that occur involve:

• Cerebral palsy
• Erb's palsy
• Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)
• Shoulder dystocia
• Brain injuries caused by oxygen deprivation
• Twin-to-twin or triplet-to-triplet transfusion syndrome
• Wrongful death of the child or mother

Our Approach to Birth Injury Cases

Silver Golub & Teitell, LLP is a different kind of medical malpractice law firm. We turn down the vast majority of the cases offered to us so we can focus on helping the people who have suffered the most serious harm as a result of clear cases of negligence. To the cases we pursue, we commit the full financial, legal, and emotional resources of our firm. To read "Preparing a Birth Injury Case" by Richard Silver, click here.

Silver Golub & Teitell "has earned some of the largest verdicts and settlements in state history" - Connecticut Law Tribune

We are known for our advanced, sophisticated trial techniques, which include the use of focus groups and jury consultants. Our lawyers locate and retain only the most knowledgeable and independent expert witnesses. Most of our experts are from outside of Connecticut and are leading authorities in their fields. This approach is necessary in birth injury cases because many Connecticut doctors will not testify against other doctors in the state, despite the merits of the case.

Looking for the Cause of Birth Injuries

One of the questions our clients want answered is why their birth injury happened. While answering that question, we determine the cause of the injury. This means we determine whether it could have been prevented and, if so, whether any health care providers failed to provide appropriate medical care. We do this through careful examination of medical records, fetal monitor strips and x-rays, and by taking hundreds of pages of depositions from witnesses and consulting the nation's leading medical authorities. We seek to identify doctor and hospital mistakes that otherwise might go unknown and unchanged. This is important to our clients and to society because it helps prevent similar birth injuries to other children.

Caring for the Victim

Babies who suffer birth injuries will often need a lifetime of care, twenty-four hours a day. In these cases, parents are focused on how they are going to keep their child out of a state institution and care for him or her at home. Our birth injury and cerebral palsy attorneys seek a financial recovery that provides enough money to cover the essentials of what the child will need to stay alive and be as healthy as possible. We help our clients help their child to access the world and enjoy life to the fully as they can. This usually involves speech therapy, occupational therapy and physical therapy as the child grows, and trust funds to help meet the child's needs after the parents are gone.

Contact Silver Golub & Teitell to speak with our Stamford, Connecticut, cerebral palsy and birth injury lawyers.

Learn More:

• "Preparing a Birth Injury Case" by Richard Silver
• Birth Injury Center
• Wrongful Death Center
• Catastrophic Injuries Center
• Representative Cases
• Historic Results