New Jersey Birth Injury Attorney

Nagel Rice is the leader in handling birth injuries and wrongful birth cases. Birth injury cases involve a variety of injuries, including injury to the baby and injury to the mother. Wrongful birth cases generally involve a failure to perform or properly interpret prenatal testing or a failure to properly perform or interpret ultrasounds.

The misery of parents who suffer a birth injury or a wrongful birth is unbearable. And yet, Nagel Rice’s birth injury lawyer and many of their clients know all too well, that pain has to be endured. When a newborn is deformed or sick with a devastating, possibly fatal, illness that should have been diagnosed early in the pregnancy, the pain is exponentially multiplied by the fact that this event could have been avoided had a more vigilant obstetrician been on the case. Years ago, before sonograms and genetic testing, such horrors were terrible but inevitable. That such incidents continue to occur with modern technology in place is beyond tragic, since when a serious condition is detected early on, the parents should have the option of terminating the pregnancy.

Birth Injury Case Results

Here are some of the firm’s results in this area of our practice:

How Our New Jersey Birth Injury Attorney Can Help

If you are suffering a complex and overwhelming situation due to obstetrical malpractice or wrongful birth, the compassionate, highly competent attorneys at Nagel Rice are on your side. We understand the extreme emotional anguish and exorbitant medical costs that can result from obstetrical negligence and are eager to assist you in tipping the scale a little closer to justice for you and your family.

At Nagel Rice, we try cases and we produce results. While your family is processing the awful reality caused by wrongful birth or other obstetrical malpractice, our skilled attorneys will aggressively pursue legal means to assist you in your struggles for legal remedy and financial security. We are absolutely committed to getting you all the money you are entitled to.

Catastrophic Medical Conditions that Obstetricians Fail to Diagnose Prior to Birth

Modern science seems miraculous when it enables us to foresee and potentially avoid the miseries of severe birth defects and predictably fatal illnesses in newborns. When a negligent obstetrician misdiagnoses such consequences, the law holds that person, and often the facility he or she is associated with, accountable. The following problems should, almost always, be diagnosable through prenatal testing conducted throughout the pregnancy, such as blood tests, DNA testing, amniocentesis, and sonograms. At Nagel Rice, we are well aware that,  when obstetricians negligently misdiagnose these life-altering defects, they condemn both infants and their families to prolonged misery. Some defects can be corrected with painful surgeries or other treatments, but some will result in lifelong disability or even early death:

• Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
• Erb’s palsy
• Cerebral palsy
• Brachial plexus injuries
• Episiotomy injuries
• Tay-Sachs disease
• Canavan disease
• Familial dysautonomia
• Cystic fibrosis
• Down syndrome
• Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
• Spina bifida
• Trisomy 18
• Sickle cell anemia
• Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
• Thalassemia
• Fragile X syndrome

If despite the parental commitment to careful obstetrical monitoring during pregnancy, your doctor has failed to take or misinterpreted, the results of a prenatal test, you are entitled to full compensation under the law, and Nagel Rice’s skilled birth injury lawyer will do everything possible to see that you receive it. Remember, in cases of obstetrical malpractice or wrongful birth, you will owe us no fee until we obtain damages for you.

In addition to infants whose illnesses or deformities have been misdiagnosed in utero, a certain number of infants (and mothers) are injured by obstetricians during the birthing process. In many cases, such mistakes are also due to medical malpractice. Negligent obstetricians can, although thankfully rarely, cause injuries to the newborn’s head or brain, nerves, bones, skin, or soft tissues during delivery. There are even cases of perinatal asphyxia, resulting in infant death. Occasionally, mothers are permanently damaged by episiotomy injuries.

Common Reasons Things Go Wrong

There are a number of common reasons for obstetricians to fail to diagnose or misdiagnose, prenatal problems and our experienced attorneys know them well. Once you contact our birth injury lawyer, we will evaluate your case with precision, hiring medical experts whenever necessary to confirm that one or more of the following mistakes have been made in the case of your child:

• Failure to provide genetic counseling
• Failure to monitor and detect maternal infections or gestational diabetes
• Failure to take a complete maternal medical history
• Failure to conduct proper physical exams
• Failure to order or perform prenatal testing
• Failure to read and/or interpret such screenings properly
• Laboratory errors
• Failure to detect fetal distress
• Failure to detect that an infant is in a breech position or too large for a normal delivery
• Failure to diagnose and treat postnatal infant health problems such as jaundice
• Failure to detect and treat maternal preeclampsia

We will work tirelessly to zero in on the area in which your obstetrical care has gone wrong, as we have in so many other cases. We will then develop a convincing legal case to make certain that you and your family receive the compensation for medical and therapeutic costs, ongoing disability care, and emotional trauma that you so clearly deserve.

Contact a New Jersey Birth Injury Lawyer

If you have suffered the anguish of a wrongful birth or some other type of obstetrical malpractice, get in touch with the extremely capable, caring birth injury lawyer at Nagel Rice.

Please get in touch with us by phone or by filling out a contact form on our website. We are on your side, ready to defend you against medical malpractice with all the legal prowess at our disposal.

Nagel Rice LLP helps their clients with their birth injury claims throughout New Jersey including Bergen County, Essex County, Middlesex County, Monmouth County, Morris County, Passaic County, and Sussex County.