Birth Defect Attorneys

If you have a child born with an anomaly in the birth caused by negligence or carelessness, you are entitled to compensation. These damages can include medical costs in addition to lost wages and punitive damages in some instances.

A Pompano Beach injury lawyer can assist you in recovering compensation for your child's injuries and future medical expenses. Birth defects are often caused by medical negligence or defective drugs. toxic exposure.

Medical Malpractice

The medical professionals who take care of your child can have an enormous impact on the future of your family. If they make a misstep which causes birth defects or injuries your child could be facing years of financial hardship and emotional and physical struggles throughout their life.

Birth injury lawyers can help to file a claim against the people who are responsible for your child's medical problems whether it's a doctor or hospital who made a mistake in the birthing and delivery process or if the source of the birth defect of your child was something that occurred to your baby prior. A Queens birth defect attorney can analyze your situation, provide valuable insight, and connect you with medical professionals to review the evidence.

A doctor could make a mistake that leads to birth defects, for example in the event that they prescribed a medication which increased the risk of your baby's condition or when they failed to carry out certain tests or screenings during pregnancy. These are examples of medical malpractice that could be cause for an action. If you believe that a medical mistake caused an anomaly in the birth of your child, you are entitled to compensation for past and future health-related expenses. A successful lawsuit could also compensate you for the loss of income, emotional stress, and any other losses you have suffered.

Defective Drugs

Prescription medications, over-the-counter medicines, chemical exposure at home or at work, and environmental hazards are all the reason for many birth defects. Unfortunately, these medical problems are very expensive. Parents often ask how their child's condition occurred and what to do when charges pile up for expensive treatments and procedures.

Drug manufacturers must ensure that their products are tested thoroughly before they are released for sale, and are expected to anticipate any potential adverse reactions. If they fail to meet this requirement and fail to do so, they could be held accountable for any product liability lawsuits filed by affected consumers. A birth defect lawyer can help determine if a drug that is not working is to blame for the health issues of your child.

If you believe that your child's birth defect is due to a particular drug start by recording your symptoms and storing the prescription packaging and receipts. It is also important to record the date when you first noticed symptoms in your child. This is crucial for determining the statute of limitations.

You have a year to file a lawsuit when your child has been exposed to any toxic substance that caused the condition. An experienced attorney who specializes in Birth Defect lawsuit defects can help you build an effective case and help you ensure that your child's rights are protected. They can also help you receive the financial assistance you require to cover treatment.

Toxic Exposure

Birth defects are serious issues that change the structure of one or more components of a baby's body. Environmental toxins, adverse effects of certain medications and genetic or chromosomal abnormalities and other factors may cause birth defects.

Levy Konigsberg LLP's staff is committed to helping families better understand the causes of birth defects as well as how they can pursue compensation from the responsible parties. Our lawyers collaborate with medical experts to determine the likelihood that a birth defect could be caused by exposure to chemicals or environmental factors.

The managing partner and senior trial lawyer David Strouss is a leader in birth defect litigation, and has been able to defend clients against large corporations that have exposed the children to harmful chemicals. He has handled thousands of cases in the United States and across the globe. He was the prosecutor in some of the first birth defect lawsuits involving glycol ether and other solvent exposures in semiconductor manufacturing and in the agricultural industries; pesticide spray or drift exposures by crop dusters, as well as exposure to heavy-metals like lead.

Victoria Phillips concentrates on complex product liability litigation, including birth defect cases. She graduated from Williams College with a magna sum laude and Columbia Law School. Before joining the firm she was a District Assistant Attorney in Manhattan's District Attorney's Office. She has recovered millions of dollars in settlements for clients and is an expert in all forms of litigation including mass tort and class action claims.

Product Liability

While modern medical technology has greatly reduced the risks that come with childbirth birth injuries and birth defects are common. These conditions can have a major impact on the lives of parents and children.

While many birth injuries and birth defects are caused by genetic or environmental factors, they can also be due to the negligence of health professionals during pregnancy or during delivery. These errors can be caused by prescribing the wrong medications or not monitoring the mother for signs of damage to her prenatal body.

It can be difficult to distinguish between a birth injury and a birth defect. While birth injuries happen during labor and birth however, birth defects can develop in the womb and typically cause long-term damage to the fetus' general body structure or function.

If a child is born with an anomaly in the birth due to someone else's negligent decision or inaction, that child may be entitled to compensation. This compensation is given to the person who was injured and stored in trust for the child's benefit.

At Phillips & Paolicelli, our Queens birth defect attorneys concentrate on the environmental causes of these conditions and work with a nationwide network of lawyers to investigate allegations of exposure to teratogen chemical that cause congenital disabilities, developmental delays and other grave birth defects. Diane Paolicelli, managing partner and attorney, has dedicated her career of over 30 years to helping women who have been exposed to toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and heavy metals that cause birth defects and reproductive problems in children.