Birth Injury Lawyer
Make the doctor and hospital pay for the medical error that caused your child’s disability
If your child was born with a debilitating condition, you know how difficult your life and the life of your child can be. Some lifelong birth injuries are actually the result of medical malpractice on behalf of doctors, nurses, or other hospital staff; the very people we expect to take the utmost care of our infants, born or unborn.
Sometimes medical personnel provide substandard care and fail to notice the signs or symptoms of potential problems with a child until it is too late. As a result of this medical error, they may be forced to rush a delivery, or harm the child with medical instruments that can handicap your child for life. Sometimes these Pennsylvania birth injuries mean a life spent in a wheelchair, going through extensive rehabilitation, and depending on others to survive. Children may lose the chance to play sports or participate in a normal life before they even learn to speak, because of these Pennsylvania birth injuries.
"Sad as it may be, serious and avoidable injuries often happen to a baby because the hospital is more concerned about profit than the baby."
Why these injuries happen?
Hospitals profit when a baby is delivered vaginally. Hospitals usually lose money when babies are delivered by c-section. As a result, hospital executives encourage their doctors to deliver babies vaginally. Sad as it may be, serious and avoidable injuries often happen to a baby because the hospital is more concerned about profit than your baby. The problem is, when a child is in danger because they are stuck in the birth canal, or have problems with the placenta, and they are deprived of oxygen, a doctor may risk a baby's life in order to try and avoid a c-section..
While the doctors leave the baby in distress and hope a vaginal delivery will not cause birth injuries, the baby is suffocating, which will quickly cause severe brain damage that can lead to cerebral palsy. Or if the baby is stuck in the birth canal, they are vulnerable to a severe arm/shoulder injury if the doctor pulls too hard on their arm attempting to deliver them too quickly.
Why You Need a Birth Injury Attorney
The Pennsylvania birth injury lawyers at Ostroff Injury Law know what to do when the negligence or willful misconduct of hospitals, doctors or nurses results in serious injury to your child. Several types of birth injuries can be caused by doctors during the birthing process.
These injuries include:
- Cerebral palsy
- Arm/shoulder injury
- Hearing loss
- Intellectual disabilities
- Vision impairment
- Hemorrhaging
- Forceps lacerations and bruising
- Facial paralysis
- Fractures
Our Pennsylvania birth injury lawyers are skilled with these types of cases and will help you and your family through this extremely difficult time. We will help secure past, present, and future medical bills, rehabilitation, special educational training, and hospital bills for your child for the rest of his or her life.
For nearly 20 years, Jon Ostroff has been representing the estates of over 100 children and adults who have died across Pennsylvania as a result of someone else's negligence. Jon will spend the time and money it takes to figure out what happened to your loved one. Jon will pay these costs if he is unable to recover money for you or your child.
Luzerne County, PA: $1.3 million recovery in a medical malpractice claim for a woman who had a nerve cut by her general surgeon causing injuries to her shoulder and arm.
Allegheny County, PA: $3.1 million mediation recovery for a husband, wife, and daughter after the mother suffered a severe hip and leg injury, and the daughter suffered a severe leg injury, in a high speed collision. Originally, the commercial van causing the accident blamed a vehicle that left the scene and Jon was able to prove otherwise. Jon resolved two of the three claims within only a year of the accident, and the daughter's claim resolved shortly thereafter!
NYC 9/11 Victim's Compensation Claim: Jon was one of the first attorneys to try a case before the 9/11 Victim's Compensation Board and received an award of $1.8 million on behalf of the estate of one victim, and a $1.6 million award on behalf of a survivor.