Birth should be a joyful and life-changing moment for a family. When preventable medical errors during pregnancy, labor, or delivery cause serious harm to a mother or baby, that joy can quickly turn into fear, uncertainty, and lifelong hardship. In Brooklyn, Staten Island, and across New York City, families may have the right to pursue a birth injury lawsuit when a doctor, nurse, hospital, or other medical provider failed to follow accepted standards of care.

Some birth injuries occur despite appropriate medical care, but others happen because healthcare providers fail to recognize fetal distress, delay a necessary C-section, misuse forceps or vacuum devices, fail to treat maternal infection, fail to monitor fetal heart rate, or otherwise deviate from proper obstetrical practice. Those errors can lead to devastating injuries such as cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy, brachial plexus injuries, facial paralysis, brain injuries from birth trauma, excessive newborn jaundice, uterine rupture, c-section injuries, labor and delivery negligence, obstetric negligence, and other permanent conditions.

Birth injury cases are often medically complex and require detailed review of prenatal records, labor and delivery records, fetal monitoring strips, operative notes, neonatal records, imaging, expert review, and hospital policies. Our attorneys investigate whether the providers failed to act when warning signs appeared and whether earlier intervention would have prevented or reduced the harm. We work to identify all liable parties and pursue compensation for medical expenses, future care costs, therapy, lost earning capacity, pain and suffering, disability, and other long-term damages caused by the birth injury.

We never charge to investigate your case, and we handle birth injury claims on a contingency fee basis, so you pay no legal fee unless we recover compensation for you.