Birth Trauma Attorney

The birth injury lawyer smiled at the little girl who was in a high tech wheelchair, making her way through a number of people who had come to her fifth birthday party to celebrate another year of grace and mercy extended to the tragic victim of cerebral palsy. The law practitioner's mind raced back to the day the young girl had been delivered at a large hospital in the south and the incredible story of mismanagement and deceit that had occurred in the birth room. The parents of the little girl were barely twenty-five, and on the day they called the birth trauma attorney didn't even have the money for the husband's meal in the hospital cafeteria. The law practitioner had become close friends of this couple and stopped by regularly to bring his own children to visit the little girl, who despite her life circumstances, found a way to always smile and bring sunshine to others around the little one. On this day, the many others that had come by to see the lass were also touched by the spirit and the life of this little girl.

The birth injury lawyer thought about that day and was still pleased that his efforts were able to bring the parents almost fourteen million dollars in damages against the hospital and attending physician. Since cerebral palsy is estimated to cost a person or a family almost one and a quarter million dollars over the lifetime of a victim of cerebral palsy, the settlement went a long way to allowing the mom to remain at home with the little daughter and give the ongoing care that she needed daily. In addition, the parents were able to buy a one floor house that was especially equipped to handle all of the needs that this little girl would have for the present and the future. The lawsuit process stretched over a three year time frame, and the insurance companies involved in the suit were very reluctant to pay the damage settlement, and continued to press the birth trauma attorney for less than the barrister knew could be awarded if the legal course remained true. "But Jesus said, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.'" (Matthew 19:14)

The birth injury lawyer knew the grim statistics all too well. For every one thousand births in industrialized countries, two births either bring about or reveal cerebral palsy. For the little girl who was at that moment tooling around greeting all the guests in the high tech wheelchair with a dozen helium balloons trailing behind the happy daughter, five years ago on this date was the day of infamy for the child. There were a number of signs that the baby might have suffered from cerebral palsy as a result of poor birth management on the part of medical practitioners. The mother's water had broken early in the evening before the birth occurred, but the obstetrician on call decided to wait what would later be decided as three hours too late to deliver the baby with a c section. On several occasions during the evening, a young nurse came in to read the fetal monitor strip and report to the doctor on call, but later was discovered to have read the monitor incorrectly. Finally, when the baby was beginning to be delivered, the obstetrician did not anticipate possible injury to the child and failed to call in a pediatrician for immediate care to the child after birth.

As the birth trauma attorney continued his travel back down memory lane, he remembered the testimony in court. As soon as the child was born, the obstetrician noticed that the baby appeared blue and immediately began resuscitation efforts and called for a pediatrician to come to assist with care. Later, the pediatrician noticed that on the warming tray the infant seemed to flop around rather than have some control over bodily movement. All these elements became part of the plaintiff's case against the hospital and staff in the wrongful injury lawsuit brought forward by the little girl's parents. What apparently spelled the death knell for any defense hopes was the continual rebuff of staff members to the validity the mother's complaints possessed that the birth just didn't seem right, that there was something wrong happening inside of the frantic mother. The jury in the civil trial apparently felt that there was little effort on the part of the hospital and staff to investigate more fully the complaints and concerns the mother had offered on that night.

Hiring an attorney with superb expertise in a particular area of law practice is almost always a sound decision when considering civil action of a life altering nature. In this case, a birth injury lawyer made all the difference in helping to turn a young family's tragedy into more of a life enriching incident. The little girl had suffered no mental loss at birth, and was judged to actually have exceptional mental capacity which would enable her to attend a regular school and find inclusion to be a normal part of her life. The parents had found their faith increased and a belief that the legal system was a fair arbiter of justice. For the birth trauma attorney, it was one of the great victories in his years of law practice. The victory earned his family a cool three million dollars and after taxes, the amount was enough to send all four of his children to college.

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