Birth Injury Lawyer Halifax

The health of your newborn can greatly depend on the care he or she is given during the birthing process.
When the medical professionals caring for your child are negligent, it can lead to catastrophic injuries
that may remain with your baby for the rest of his or her life. At Wagners, we focus on serious injury cases and provide strong representation for our clients. We have broad experience in handling birth injury, and we will pursue your case with skill, knowledge, experience and compassion.

Birth trauma refers to damage of the tissues and organs of a newborn baby (trauma), or the babies’ systems (injury) often as a result of trauma during childbirth.

When the above conditions result in injuries to infants or their mothers, the injuries can be permanent and disabling. Common traumatic birth injury include:

• Facial paralysis: Pressure from forceps on an infant’s face can cause tears to the facial nerves, necessitating surgery. Sometimes the paralysis is permanent.
• Fracture of the clavicle.
• Hemorrhaging (bleeding) in the brain or skull.
• Brachial palsy: If the nerves connected with the infant’s hands and arms are injured, this condition can result. Shoulder dystocia is one form of this condition. It is caused by problems with the baby’s shoulders passing through the birth canal. Torn brachial plexus nerves can result in permanent damage to the nerves as well as a loss of rotation and flexion of the affected arm.

While not all birth injuries can be avoided, many are due to medical errors and misdiagnoses by obstetricians and midwives. When egregious errors or negligence are the culprit, parents of the injured or deceased baby have a right to seek financial compensation for their loss.

Birth trauma litigation is complex and requires legal and medical expertise. Wagners has been successful in many birth trauma cases, and has obtained for its clients the significant, much needed and lifelong financial support for families whose children have suffered injury as a result of birth trauma.