Birth Injury Claims
We Can Provide You With Specialist Birth Injury Claims Advice At No Cost And With No Obligation.
Birth injury cases are extremely complex in terms of both the legal complications involved but also because of the very stressful and emotional experience that parents and family go through. A birth injury can occur to the mother or the baby either before, during or shortly after birth. Birty injury can result from many different circumstances but common complaints are of third and fourth degree tears, skin irritation, fractured bones, brain injury and nerve damage. One of the most common forms of medical negligence is cerebral palsy. Your 1stClaims solicitor will have experience in dealing with all of these types of birth injury claims to ensure that at a time of stress you are handled promptly and professionally.
For imediate advice about your birth injury, please call us free on 0800 2888 693 or complete an online Free Claim Enquiry and we will be in touch with you very soon. Remember there is no cost for this service, but we can advise you instantly whether you might be able to make a claim and explain all of your legal rights to you.
Types of Birth Injury Claims
Our solicitors can help you with all types of Birth Injury Claims,including:
- 3rd Degree Tears
- Birth injury tears, including third degree and fourth degree perineal tears;
- Brachial plexus injury
- Caesarian Section claims (negligent operations or failue to carry out a caesarian section)
- Episiotomy pain and complications
- Injuries to the mother during birth
- Infant death
- Ruptured placentas
- Umbilical cord problems
Whatever the nature, our solicitors can advise you of your legal options both professionally and sensitively.
For imediate advice about your birth injury please call us free on 0800 2888 693 or complete an online Free Claim Enquiry for no cost, no obligation specialist birth injury advice.
Cerebral Palsy Claims
Unfortunately, cerebral palsy effects 1 in every 10,000 babies born in the UK. Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by a baby being starved of oxygen during birth, which causes damage to the brain and may result in the baby having physical or intellectual difficulties.
Many babies who have been effected by birth injuries will require help and assistance for many years - sometimes even for the rest of their life. Many families don't have the resources to provide the very best care they would want for their baby. That is where 1stClaims' expert cerebral palsy and birth injury claims solicitors can help you. Not only will they recover compensation for the pain and suffering experienced, they will also claim for medical assistance and additional care for the family to make a difficult situation better.
For more information on Cerebral Palsy please see our Guide To Cerebral Palsy Claims.
Funding Your Birth Injury Claim
If legal aid is not available, we can offer you a No Win No Fee Medical Negligence Claim, whereby you do not have to pay to start your claim and you pay nothing if you lose your claim. This is a special arrangement for 1stClaims clients and is not one that is commonly offered by birth injury claim solicitors. It is just another way we help you to make the whole process as simple as possible for you.
If the birth injury claim is to be made on behalf of your child, then most children will automatically qualify for legal aid as it is their own income that is assessed and not their parents or families. 1stClaims solicitors are authorised by the Legal Services Commission to undertaken claims on a legally aided basis and will discuss this with you. Your solicitor will have many years experience in dealing with birth injury claims and will be sympathetic to what is clearly a very difficult time for you and your family. They will and guide you through the legal procedure, make an application for legal aid on your behalf and try to make the situation as stress free as possible for you.
See our Cerebral Palsy Claim case study for more information.
How Long Have I Got To Instruct a Solicitor?
If the birth injury claim is for the mother, you have three years from the date of the injury within which to make a claim. However, you need to contact one of our solicitors urgently to ensure you have the best prospects of success. Where clinical negligence involves a child you have three years from the date of the child's 18th birthday to bring a claim. Therefore, even if the treatment was carried out many years ago, if your child is under 21 year of age they will still be able to bring a birth injury claim. However, generally a claim has more prospects of success if action is taken as soon after the event as possible.
What Should I Do Next?
Time is crucial to a birth injury claim, so please call us free now on 0800 2888 693 or complete our Free Online Birth Injury Claim Enquiry and we will be in touch with you very soon.
Remember, all initial enquiries are completely free of charge and we will investigate all funding options for you.
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