Birth injury compensation claims
Birth injuries fall into a specialist area of medical negligence
law and require experienced solicitors to deal with all aspects
of these, very complex and demanding cases. Our solicitors have
helped many parents obtain medical negligence damages, which have
enabled them to meet the needs of their children who have been
injured at or during birth as well as helping mothers who have
suffered whilst being pregnant or giving birth.
Types of birth injury cases
We investigate all types of birth injuries caused to children and
their mothers during birth. Examples of these include:
Birth Injury - Children:
Neil Fearn heads the clinical negligence department at Simpson Millar LLP and handles a range of clinical negligence matters, but comes particularly recommended for his expertise in cerebral palsy and Erb’s palsy-based claims. Sources single him out as "an approachable, efficient and extremely knowledgeable practitioner". Peter Stefanovic also impresses by being "bright and analytical," and "fighting hard for his clients." Ben Gent is also well regarded for negligence and birth injury claims.
Chambers and Partners UK 2012
Birth Injury - Mothers:
Marguarita Tyne of Simpson Millar LLP "deals with claims at the top end of seriousness, and is sympathetic with claimants." She is instructed in a range of clinical negligence cases including those involving serious birth injuries.
Chambers and Partners 2012
The ‘very good’ Ben Gent handles clinical negligence work at Simpson Millar LLP. His recent workload includes hypoxic brain injury, compartment syndrome and negligent hip replacement cases.
Legal 500 2011
We also investigate:
The Claimant, who was pregnant, was admitted into hospital and had labour induced.
She started to bleed from her vagina during labour. This continued and worsened
after delivery of the placenta – she suffered a major post partum haemorrhage with
a massive blood loss of 3 litres. In spite of having a major PPH and losing massive
amounts of blood after delivery, the Claimant’s carers were unaware of the clinical
significance in that attempts to correct it were inadequate. The failure to infuse
the Claimant correctly resulted in hypo-volaemic shock, DIC and organ failure and
her death.
The Claimant’s estate recovered damages of £275,000.
Birth injury compensation enquiries
If you believe you have a medical negligence claim for a birth injury
please call our helpline today on 0800 195 8464 or use our free, no obligation,
online enquiry form to register
for a call back or call us directly on 0844 858 3400.
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