Phoenix Birth Injury Attorney

Arizona Medical Malpractice Lawyers  

When a child is injured during the birth process, they may be affected for an entire lifetime. So, it is important to take legal action has suffered a birth injury — not only to hold the doctor accountable for mistakes he or she made, but to help you child get the resources needed for a lifetime of care. At Harris Powers & Cunningham, in Phoenix, Arizona, we can help.

Our team of experienced medical malpractice lawyers has the resources, knowledge and experience to help our clients achieve the best possible results. If your child's birth injury is the result of medical negligence, we never hesitate to take strong and effective legal action.

Birth injuries may result from a broad range of negligent acts by doctors and other healthcare providers:

• Not monitoring or responding to changes in fetal heart rate
• Failure to manage a delayed delivery correctly
• Mechanical problems
• Early discharge from the hospital
• Failure to manage a high-risk delivery correctly
• Over medication
• Undetected oxygen deprivation
• Strangulation by the umbilical cord
• Failing to recognize fetal distress
• Failing to perform a cesarean section as needed

These birth injuries occur doing the labor and delivery, but injuries may occur during the pregnancy itself. Sometimes medical care professionals fail to diagnose or properly treat conditions that arise during pregnancy and can lead to birth injuries. When doctors fail to identify that something is going wrong, they may also be committing malpractice.

Doctor error leads to many serious injuries each year. These include head injury and fractures, cerebral palsy, forceps or vacuum pump injury, hypoxia and oxygen deprivation, shoulder dystocia, Erb's palsy and injury to the spinal cord.

Contact Phoenix, Arizona, Birth Injury Lawyers

To take the first step in determining whether or not you have a medical malpractice claim related to a birth injury in Arizona, please contact our lawyers as soon as possible. Call Harris Powers & Cunningham at 602.271.9344.