Birth Injuries

Lawrence M. Simon - New Jersey Birth Injury Attorney

In the delivery room, not one but two lives are helpless and utterly dependent on the skill and careful attention of a team of highly trained professionals whose commitment to the safe delivery of a newborn baby is never in real doubt. Notwithstanding the qualifications, experience, and good intentions of these professionals, medical mistakes can and do happen in the obstetric ward. If the joy in the birth of your new child has been shadowed by a serious injury to the baby during birth, contact Bergen County birth injury lawyer Lawrence M. Simon for a free consultation about your legal options.

Examples of birth injuries that we can represent you with include:

• Cerebral palsy, most often caused by an interruption of oxygen to the fetus's brain due to awkward positioning for extended periods, or by failure to monitor the mother's vital signs - especially blood oxygen levels during delivery
• Erb's palsy, or extensive damage to the nerve branches in the neck and shoulder caused by the need to manipulate a large fetus around a small mother's pubic bone during breech delivery
• Undetected uterine rupture during delivery, often involving the protrusion of the fetus's head through scar tissue from a prior caesarian delivery
• Group B streptococcus infections that can lead to meningitis, permanent disability, or even death of the infant
• Fetal stress or birth trauma caused by improper use of the forceps or other instruments

Birth injuries can also result from improper advice or failure to warn of risks or complications in the prenatal period. For example, the risk of Erb's palsy should often indicate the advisability of a caesarian delivery when ultrasound and checkups show that an expectant mother with a small vaginal canal is carrying a large fetus.

Whether your family's problem was caused by negligent performance in the delivery room or by inadequate medical advice during pregnancy, New Jersey birth injury lawyer Lawrence M. Simon can help make sure that your family has the resources you'll need for providing the level of care, support, and treatment your child will need. For further information, call the Law Offices of Lawrence M. Simon in Ridgewood.

Ridgewood, New Jersey, personal injury attorney Lawrence M. Simon represents plaintiffs in serious or fatal motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, medical malpractice claims, nursing home neglect or abuse, and other cases of negligence in New Jersey and New York, including Bergen County, Hudson County, Passaic County, Morris County, Union County, Newark, Paterson, Elizabeth, Fort Lee, Hackensack, New Brunswick, Saddle River, Morristown, Teaneck, Paramus, the five boroughs of New York City, and Orange County NY.