BIRTH DEFECTS

Although childbirth is meant to be a happy and joyous occasion of a new addition to the family, a small number of births are marred by medical malpractice by obstetricians or birth defects due to drugs taken during pregnancy. Meyerson & O'Neill has represented children who have sustained serious injury during the birthing process and also parents who have experienced the death of a child due to professional negligence. The experience that our lawyers have amassed in the medical malpractice and products liability areas is readily transferrable and has been forcefully employed on behalf of newborns and parents.

Our record includes substantial financial damages for a child who was born with a deformed arm due to shoulder dystocia caused by obstetric malpractice in trying to force the delivery of the child through natural means who was too large to be delivered through the birth canal.

In another case, a obstetrician, despite repeated warnings from the nurses on duty as to fetal distress, delayed coming to the hospital until it was too late and the child was stillborn. Our firm obtained a very substantial result on behalf of the parents which has provided financial security for them and for the subsequent healthy children that they have been able to have.

Also, the firm has undertaken cases involving various serious reactions both at the time of childbirth and during childhood when mothers have taken drugs during pregnancies or the infants have been treated with certain drugs after their birth. Such deaths are often due to seizures and cardiovascular problems or children at times have been delivered with deformities due to drugs prescribed for the mother during pregnancy. These cases raise very similar issues to those that the firm has effectively litigated involving other pharmaceuticals, drugs and dietary supplements.

If you or a loved one would like us to evaluate a potential case on your behalf, please contact us by telephone at 215-972-1376 or by filling out the form below.

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