Birth Injuries

Oregon Birth Injury Attorneys - Cerebral Palsy - GBS Infection

Many conditions that appear to be birth defects are actually birth injuries that are neither congenital nor due to difficulties encountered during pregnancy; they can result from negligent delivery procedures or insufficient monitoring of vital signs. If your child was born with cerebral palsy or Erb's palsy, or suffered other severe injuries during delivery, contact the Eugene birth injury lawyers at Johnson Clifton Larson & Schaller, P.C..

Cerebral palsy is an irreversible condition most often caused by an extended period of insufficient oxygen to the brain of a fetus.  The condition can reflect inattention on the part of those physicians or nurses charged with monitoring such vital signs as heart function and blood oxygenation. Erb's palsy, also known as brachial palsy, involves permanent nerve damage to the neck or shoulder of the fetus and is usually caused by an obstetrician's manipulation of the fetus around the mother's pubic bone.

You Have a Right to Justice^SM in the Delivery Room

Our Oregon birth injury liability attorneys have also successfully represented families in personal injury cases involving problems such as:

• Group B streptococcus infection during delivery, resulting in permanent disabilities
• Cephalohematoma, or bleeding in the brain, caused by improper use of the vacuum extractor or forceps
• Uterine rupture or a catastrophic tearing of the uterus into the abdominal cavity. This condition typically occurs in cases where the mother has delivered a previous child by Cesarean section. Its onset is often marked only by sudden decrease in the fetal heart rate, and treatment requires rapid surgical intervention for good neonatal and maternal outcomes.

Birth injury cases can be difficult to litigate and prove due to the fact that many problems can be explained by circumstances or plausible theories that tend to absolve the defendant physician or hospital from liability. At Johnson Clifton Larson & Schaller, P.C., however, our painstaking and thoroughly professional development of expert evidence necessary to support an obstetric negligence or malpractice claim has in the past achieved remarkable results by settlement or verdict.

We've handled enough birth injury cases to understand how difficult it is for parents whose hopeful anticipation of childbirth has been marred by avoidable accidents that will present lifelong challenges for the entire family. At the same time, we've yet to meet parents who love any less their injured child. For more information about our ability to help overcome the difficulties inherent in raising a birth-injured child, contact us in Eugene. 
 
The Oregon birth injury attorneys at Johnson Clifton Larson & Schaller, P.C. represent plaintiffs with claims arising from the negligence of obstetricians, anesthesiologists, obstetric nurses, and other professionals, for injuries such as fetal distress, cerebral palsy, Erb's palsy, Group B streptococcus (GBS) infections, or birth asphyxia or brain injury caused by inadequate monitoring or delivery procedures. Our Eugene neonatal injury lawyers serve clients throughout central Oregon, southern Oregon, and the Willamette Valley, including Corvallis, Salem, Medford, Roseburg, Klamath Falls, Bend, Redmond, Ashland, Creswell, Central Point, Grants Pass, Brownsville, Myrtle Creek, Springfield, and Albany, OR.

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