Birth Injury & Pregnancy Claims
Applebys all female team
If you’ve had a problem with any stage of your pregnancy, labour, delivery or aftercare, then let our specialist, all female team help you. The trauma of a birth injury, whether to mother, child or both, can have life-long emotional and physical implications. We cannot take away the wrong you have suffered, but our specialist Solicitors will fight for the maximum compensation your situation deserves.
Hospital Birth Units are areas of high stress and pressing medical need. They demand, in their clinicians, the sort of personality that can cope with trauma and decision making under extreme pressure. Occasionally, the management of delivery can be fraught and the outcomes poor for mother and child, however, this doesn't meant necessarily that the outcome is negligent. Knowing the difference between sub optimal treatment and negligent treatment is a skill that is only possessed by the experienced. Appleby's have years of experience in bringing about settlements in birth related injuries and our expertise is only matched by our desire to see an appropriate outcome for the family. The strength of the links that many families form with their solicitors can be demonstrated by the fact that many clients are still in touch with us, years after settlement, to update us with news about their family and their children.
We are familiar with helping families claim compensation for all types of birth related traumas and injuries here are a few of the typical ones;
Claims can include:
• Uterine Rupture / Placental Abruption
• Pre Natal Infections
• Maternal Diabetes / Gestational Diabetes
• Pre Eclamsia
• Spina Bifida
• Down’s Syndrome
• Cerebral Palsy
•Third Degree Tears
• Erb’s Palsy
• Brachial Plexus
• Congenital Hip Dysplasia
• Retained Placenta
• Meconium Aspiration Syndrome
• Sepsis
• Meningitis
We could list birth related conditions and injuries over several pages. We would advise that at first instance, no matter what your condition or the condition of your child, you contact us for a first discussion about your clinical history and what you feel has gone wrong. We have heard just about every conceivable complaint and allegation over the years and we know the evidence required to prove them.
Other resources can be found at:
Scope - http://scope.org/
The Birth Trauma Association - http://www.birthtraumaassociation.org.uk/