National Birth Injury Lawyers

Childbirth is a life changing experience and often one of the happiest days in a parent’s life. So, when medical errors jeopardize the health of the mother and baby, parents leave the hospital wondering what went wrong instead of celebrating a successful birth.

At Miller Weisbrod Olesky, the attorneys, nurses, and staff understand that parents of children with birth injuries feel overwhelmed and have questions. Were their injuries preventable? Did someone’s negligence or errors cause their pain or the loss of a loved one?

We want to help you discover whether your child’s birth injury, HIE, cerebral palsy or brain injury was caused by a medical error. Every client has the attention and support of a team of trained, compassionate professionals. But we don’t just offer compassion.

Our dedicated team of birth injury attorneys and nursing advocates diligently investigate the facts and hold responsible parties accountable by pursuing medical malpractice claims against them. In birth injury cases, our young clients’ compensation helps them pay for:

• Current and future medical treatment
• Assistive Equipment & Devices
• Attendant care and equipment
• Physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy
• Important medical procedures like an osteotomy or possible hip muscle release surgery
• Other expenses associated with caring for a child with brain injuries, seizure disorders, and cerebral palsy

Specialized Services We Provide

Every year, the effects of medical errors forever change thousands of people’s lives. In some cases, the victims of these medical errors are babies who are just entering the world. Managing an expectant mother’s birth requires over 9 months of careful monitoring, prenatal testing, and planning for labor.

When pregnancy complications arise, the mother looks to her primary healthcare providers for guidance. When she experiences labor and delivery complications, she puts both hers and her baby’s lives into these professionals’ hands.

But the reality is medical providers aren’t perfect. They make mistakes just like everyone. But families sometimes end up paying the price when a medical provider’s actions (or inactions) directly harm their child.

Personal injury law is a vast field. When seeking the most qualified law firm for your family’s needs, it’s important to know which firms specialize in cases like yours.

Our national birth injury attorneys help families seek justice and compensation for a wide range of birth injuries, especially cases of cerebral palsy and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) that happened as a result of medical malpractice.

National Birth Injury Litigation Services

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Birth Injury Lawyers
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Our Birth Injury Lawyers are available to meet you in your home or the hospital, nationwide.

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What Is a Birth Injury?

A birth injury is any type of physical harm or trauma to a baby before, during, or immediately after childbirth. Some birth injuries are unavoidable, even with the highest quality of medical care. In other cases, medical professionals make careless and preventable mistakes that increase your child’s risk of harm.

When doctors, nurses, obstetricians, and other medical professionals fail to anticipate birth complications, order a C-section, or respond to fetal distress, this constitutes medical negligence. Birth injuries can result from these mistakes, including:

• Brain Injuries
• Birth Related Head injuries
• Punctures, Lesions, or Scrapes
• Neonatal Infections
• Nerve Damage
• Bone Fractures

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National Birth Trauma Litigation Services

Birth trauma can sometimes be preventable with proper medical care. Medical negligence, such as delaying an emergency c-section or missing signs of fetal distress, or even operating errors with tools during delivery can cause a traumatic birth injury.

Parents whose children suffer from long-term effects of birth trauma, as well as parents who have suffered the loss of their baby, deserve to know whether it could have been prevented. Our experienced Birth Trauma Lawyers want to help you find those answers and obtain the funds necessary to improve the quality of life for your child.

What is Birth Trauma?

• Head Injuries, such as intracranial hemorrhage and cephalhematomas
• Hypoxic and Ischemic Injuries
• Nerve Damage
• Bone Injuries

Our Birth Trauma Lawyers, available nationwide, diligently investigate the facts, including a detailed examination of the fetal heart rate monitoring strips and labor and delivery records.

About Birth Trauma

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National Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Litigation Services

Parents whose children are diagnosed with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy ask questions as to whether mistakes by the doctors and nurses contributed to their child’s birth injury.

At Miller Weisbrod Olesky, our award-winning HIE birth injury attorneys have represented families all over the United States diagnosed with cerebral palsy and/or hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.

We use our skills and expertise to obtain for you and your child a medical malpractice settlement that will help provide specialized medical therapy to maximize the quality of life and live with the most common complications of this birth injury.

What is Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)?

Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy is a type of brain injury that occurs when the baby’s brain is deprived of oxygen. Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy or HIE can occur prior to birth, during labor and delivery, or shortly after birth. The length and amount of oxygen deprivation to the brain will determine the severity of brain damage caused by the HIE.

Babies with a truly mild form of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy may not suffer any long-term effects, but babies with moderate to severe HIE may eventually suffer from cerebral palsy, developmental delays, cognitive impairments, and/or epilepsy.

Babies with this birth injury may exhibit early signs, such as abnormal muscle tone, poor reflexes, lack of alertness, breathing difficulties, feeding problems, low APGAR scores, and/or seizures.

About HIE Birth Injuries

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National Cerebral Palsy Litigation Services

A cerebral palsy lawyer is a specialized personal injury and medical malpractice attorney who helps families investigate whether a child's cerebral palsy was caused by preventable medical negligence during pregnancy, labor, or delivery. They help clients through the legal process to obtain financial compensation.

Our Cerebral Palsy Lawyers can review the medical records and circumstances to assess whether a medical malpractice claim exists. Our team will thoroughly investigate the facts, holding responsible parties accountable by pursuing medical malpractice claims.

What is Cerebral Palsy?

Cerebral palsy is a group of physical and neurological disorders that permanently affect gross motor skills, such as movement and speech. The causes of cerebral palsy can be difficult to grasp.

Cerebral palsy sometimes occurs from nonpreventable factors such as premature birth or genetic brain malformations. But in other cases, medical errors and negligence during delivery play a key role in causing brain damage at birth.

Medical professionals sometimes make errors during the birthing process that deprive the baby’s brain of sufficient oxygen and blood flow. When this happens, it can kill off brain cells and impair the baby’s neural pathways responsible for controlling muscle movement.

Even simple mistakes like delaying an emergency C-section or missing signs of fetal distress can lead to irreversible brain injuries. These seemingly small mistakes can forever alter the child’s life.

Our National Birth Trauma Attorneys Are Ready

After hiring Miller Weisbrod Olesky, we thoroughly investigate the facts of your child’s birth to determine how and why your child suffered a birth injury. If we determine that medical negligence of either the doctors, nurses or hospital contributed to the injury, we seek legal justice for you and your child by filing a lawsuit.

While the vast majority of birth injury lawsuits we file result in a pre-trial settlement, we ensure the case is prepared to go to trial. As your claim proceeds, Miller Weisbrod Olesky’s nurse-attorney advocates help you find the treatment your child needs right now.

Remember, we handle claims on a contingency basis. That means we only get paid when we win the case for you. Please call to schedule a free consultation or use our convenient online contact form.

There is never a fee or charge unless we make a recovery.

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We Handle Birth Injury Malpractice Claims Nationwide

Miller Weisbrod Olesky is a nationally recognized birth injury law firm. We represent children whose birth injury is caused by medical errors throughout the United States.

Our top rated birth injury lawyers have successfully represented medical malpractice clients in more than 20 states.

If your child suffered a serious injury or lifetime disability due to a mistake before, during or after delivery, a birth injury lawsuit may be the best way to find out once and for all what happened and who is to blame. Contact us today to schedule a free consultation with an experienced birth injury attorney.

Free Legal Consultation
Birth Injury Lawyers
(888) 987-0005

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Recent Birth Injury Settlement:
Birth Injury settlement against a hospital in which nurses and physicians failed to properly monitor the mother's blood pressure during delivery causing an HIE event resulting in neonatal seizures and cerebral palsy at birth. Our national birth injury lawyers recovered $13,750,000 for the family to help with future medical expenses and developmental therapy.

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How Are We Different from Other Law Firms?

WE PROVIDE HELP NOW.

Many attorneys focus only on pursuing their client’s legal case. But something sets Miller Weisbrod Olesky apart. At Miller Weisbrod Olesky, we know your child needs help today – not just when your birth injury lawsuit is settled. We have a team focused on helping our clients NOW when they need it most.

We know that children with birth injuries like hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and cerebral palsy often require intense therapy, specialized medical treatment, and assistive care. The stress of providing for a birth injured child’s needs can be both emotionally and financially draining.

But just ‘knowing’ this is not enough. We act on this knowledge by providing exceptional services to birth-injured children and their families.

While Miller Weisbrod Olesky’s birth injury attorneys aggressively prepare each legal case, another department goes into action to help the families of children we represent. Led by a nurse-attorney, this department acts as a medical case manager for our birth injury clients by:

• Regularly monitoring the child’s medical treatment status,
• Helping facilitate medical treatment and therapy, and
• Arranging transportation and services.

Where necessary, we also help families locate local medical providers specializing in the care and treatment of children who have suffered a birth injury. With Miller Weisbrod Olesky, you’re not just a ‘case’. And that’s important when you’re looking for a lawyer who can help you cope with your child’s needs today.

Please call or email our National Birth Injury Lawyers today to get started.

In-House Registered Nurses and Nurse-Attorney Advocates

A Vital Part of Our Birth Injury Team

Most national birth injury law firms will employ one or two nurses to assist the review of cases and medical research. But Miller Weisbrod Olesky offers an unmatched number of nurses and nurse-attorney advocates support to both the birth injury attorneys and our clients.

Our team of registered nursing staff and nurse-attorneys bring a deep level of medical and personal insight to every client’s case. Our nursing team includes both an experienced labor and delivery nurse as well as an ICU nurse. Working closely with the rest of the team, they investigate the reasons behind a birth injury and how medical professionals breached their standard of care.

Our Top Rated Birth Injury Attorneys Are Here to Help

Representing Birth Injury Victims across the United States

Experience and dedication matter. Miller Weisbrod Olesky birth injury attorneys are led by firm founder Les Weisbrod, a national leader in birth injury litigation.

With over 40 years of law practice, Les Weisbrod has achieved a clear track record of success representing the families of children with birth injuries. His driving passion focuses on improving the lives of children that have suffered a brain injury or birth injury caused by medical malpractice.

Les was dubbed the “pit bull of Texas medical malpractice” for his reputation as a relentless legal warrior for his clients.

Les Weisbrod has obtained more medical malpractice punitive damage jury verdicts for his clients than any other attorney in the United States.

- Michael Rustad: Professor of Law; Suffolk University, Boston

Les leads a team of Miller Weisbrod Olesky lawyers dedicated to children injured at or shortly after a child’s birth. Their practice is national and not limited to Texas families. In fact, Les has personally resolved birth injury and medical malpractice lawsuits in twenty different states.

To educate and train other lawyers on how best to manage birth injury lawsuits, Les co-founded the Birth Trauma Litigation Group (BTLG) in 1991. Members of this leading trial lawyer organization meet multiple times a year. Medical doctors also attend to help educate lawyers from across the country in birth injury and birth trauma.

Les actively works to improve the skills of other attorneys in their representation of birth injury clients. By speaking to national and international organizations about birth injury, medical negligence, and trial tactics, he continues to raise the bar for his colleagues and himself.

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Over the years, Les and his law partners have built a firm uniquely designed to pursue compensation for birth injury victims aggressively and successfully.

Dear Les,
I’ve been thinking about what my situation would be had you not rescued me. I am more thankful everyday for you and your marvelous team. Charge on to save others with the wings of eagles.
- Thank you my friend, Kathy M.

The Leading Edge of Birth Injury Education

Over 30 Years Experience

For the past 30 years, Les and the birth injury attorneys at Miller Weisbrod Olesky have organized continuing education for attorneys, including presentations from medical doctors who specialize in:

• Diagnosing fetal distress
• Interpreting fetal heart monitor strips
• Recognizing medical issues faced by newborns who have suffered birth trauma
• Treating children who have sustained birth injuries, including cerebral palsy and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)

Attorneys trained by Miller Weisbrod Olesky have held more leadership positions in the BTLG and Medical Negligence Litigation Group than any other law firm in the United States.

We remain committed to being the leading national birth injury law firm by helping clients across the United States. Training attorneys in the latest medical knowledge on the causes and long-term treatment of birth injuries improves representation industry-wide.

Questions You May Have About Your Child’s Birth Injury

How Does a Birth Injury Affect My Baby?

A minor birth injury may cause temporary physical discomfort, pain and suffering to the baby, but no long-term damage may occur. A severe birth injury can have permanent consequences for the baby, including both lifelong physical and intellectual disabilities as well as emotional effects for their entire life.

Birth asphyxia, meaning a lack of oxygen to the baby’s brain, is one of the most damaging birth injuries. If a baby suffers birth asphyxia either shortly before or after birth, they may develop a condition called hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) in severe cases can cause cerebral palsy, resulting in developmental issues and lifelong disabilities for the baby.

Birth Injuries Affects A Child

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Was My Child’s Birth Injury Preventable?

A combination of factors can culminate into a baby’s injury at birth. Some birth complications are preventable while others are not. However, healthcare providers must always be proactive and do everything possible to avoid preventable injuries and adverse outcomes.

The most common types of birth injury negligence during pregnancy, labor, and delivery that cause these preventable injuries include:

• Missed Pregnancy Complications
• Improper Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring
• Delayed Emergency C-Section
• Inadequate Birth Injury Treatment

Our team of committed National birth injury lawyers use our detailed medical negligence case review process to assess whether your child’s birth injury was preventable. If we feel medical negligence caused or worsened your child’s injuries, we meet with you to discuss further.

What is Birth Injury Litigation?

Birth injuries can have a long-term negative impact on your child’s life. With conditions like cerebral palsy, children require a great deal of care throughout their lifetime. A birth injury lawsuit can help parents receive financial compensation to support their child’s care requirements.

Parents facing an uncertain future because their child sustained a birth injury need answers. They want to know:

• What happened?
• Why did it happen?
• Who is responsible?
• How will they pay for their child’s current and future medical treatments and therapies?

Our team of experienced birth injury attorneys, nurses and paraprofessionals work to answer these questions and seek compensation. We use our detailed medical negligence case review process to assess your potential birth injury case.

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Our results speak for themselves. Over the years, our birth injury attorneys have won millions of dollars for their clients across hundreds of victories in medical malpractice lawsuits and settlements, securing the funds that families depend on to cover the cost of critical medical treatment for their child.

The attorneys, nurses, and staff of Miller Weisbrod Olesky understand that parents of children with birth injuries feel overwhelmed. This is why we strive to ensure every client has the full attention and support of our trained, compassionate team of professionals.

But we don’t just offer compassion: we offer a comprehensive process to help you discover whether your child’s birth injury, HIE, cerebral palsy or brain injury was caused by a medical error.

Our Intake Process

During your first contact, you will speak with one of our birth injury-trained intake team members. Each member is a nurse or works closely with our legal nurse team. Our team members will gather all the facts you have regarding your child, the birth of your child, and all concerns you have about the birth process.

Step 1: Initial Intake

You will not be required to tell us what you think was done wrong; that is our job to find out. Otherwise, please feel free to tell us everything you feel and know.

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Step 2: Gathering Documentation

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Step 3: Consulting With Medical Experts

These experts include obstetricians, neonatologists, pediatric neurologists, pediatric radiologists, nursing experts, life care planners, and economists. In some states, we must get official written reports back from these experts before filing a lawsuit.

This entire medical record review process may take as long as six months to complete. We use this time preparing to manage all the potential issues that may arise after the experts have reached their medical conclusions.

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Step 4: Case Review With An Attorney

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Step 5: Attorney Contract/Retainer

• Your prenatal care
• Your labor and delivery
• Your child’s neonatal care
• Follow-up visits with pediatricians and other specialists

Once again, you will not pay any attorneys’ fees or expenses during this process. You will never owe a fee or reimbursement of expenses unless we make a successful recovery for you and your child. We believe in taking care of our clients during each step of this process. Please know that we are here to listen and help during the entire journey from case review all the way to a potential lawsuit.

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Contact Our National Birth Injury Lawyers

We do not collect a fee until we win your case

As National Birth Injury Attorneys, we have obtained verdicts and settlements for clients like you. The millions of dollars our clients received were used for therapies, treatments, assistive devices, caregivers, and future planning. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us today to discuss your unique circumstances.

Birth injury lawsuits are complex. But our National Birth Injury Lawyers focus on providing experienced, skilled representation to get the best results for our clients. Our track record of successful settlements and verdicts speaks for itself.

Discuss your claim with our national birth injury attorneys at Miller Weisbrod Olesky. Please call (888) 987-0005 or use our contact form to tell us about your case.