Birth Injury Compensation Claims in Manchester

A new baby being born should be one of the most significant and special moment in a family’s life, so when something goes wrong during childbirth or pregnancy, the ramifications can be extremely serious. On very rare occasions mother and baby can be hurt or injured due to medical negligence and in these cases it is wise to seek birth injury compensation if there is a personal injury case to answer. 

Claim for Birth Injury Compensation – How Claims Work

If you have been given poor treatment or poor diagnosis either during birth or your pregnancy, then you are eligible to make a clinical negligence personal injury claim.

In most cases, pregnancy and birth should be a happy time, but from time to time, birth injury claim lawyers will be required to seek compensation for personal injury. This can include the following scenarios:

  • Difficult Labours
  • Oxygen Deprivation
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Improper Scan Interpretations
  • Problems with C-Sections
  • Issues Arising from Forceps Delivery
  • Failure to Follow Sterilisation Practices
  • Pre-eclampsia
  • Shoulder Dystocia
  • Brachial Plexus Injuries
  • Negligent Episiotomy Ureter Injury
  • Hysterectomy Problems

If you believe that you have been poorly treated, cared for, misdiagnosed, or your baby has been injured during childbirth, then you could have a case to make for birth injury compensation.

The following information includes details on the types of birth injury compensation claims that a lawyer can help you with. How a birth injury solicitor or lawyer will work with you. And how they can help you for clinical negligence during childbirth.  

When we refer to “birth injuries” we are referring to any harm that happened to either the mother or the baby.  

Birth Injury Compensation Claims – The Different Types

What follows is a list and overview of the most common types of birth injury claims that specialist lawyers can deal with, including accident claims solicitors.  

Clinical Negligence During Pregnancy

During your pregnancy, you should expect to be given the highest level of care possible, whether within private health care or the National Health Service.  However, sometimes errors can be made and these can have huge ramifications for the health of you and your baby.

Whilst the ante-natal teams in the UK have very high-tech equipment and are trained to the highest levels, problems can still happen, and even medical professionals can miss serious issues with the mother and baby.  This can include items such as misdiagnosing a miscarriage, and even stillbirth.

Pregnancy is a very frightening experience for some women, and you need to be able to trust 100% the advice and care that you receive from nurses and doctors.  

If for some reason you have not received the best care and issues arise, leading to a birth injury claim, then a lawyer can help you to seek personal injury compensation.

Maternal Diabetes or Gestational Diabetes

Maternal Diabetes (also known as Gestational Diabetes) is commonly misdiagnosed during pregnancy.  In worst case scenarios, it can lead to a miscarriage if not noticed and treated quickly enough.  After birth, the baby can suffer from post-birth injuries including brain damage at birth, or heart issues.

These issues should be picked up during screening whilst you are a pregnant, so if missed can lead to a very traumatic birth and ongoing problems with the child’s life.  

Birth injury claims specialists will seek to award damages for the associated costs and expenses involved in bringing up a child in these circumstances.

Wrongful Birth Injury Cases

In today’s hospitals, most birth defects should be picked up via scanning procedures during pregnancy. In rare cases, babies can be diagnosed with conditions such as:

  • Spina bifida
  • Club feet
  • A hole in the heart
  • Down’s syndrome

If your doctors don’t identify these conditions during your pregnancy, then there could be a clinical negligence birth claim to answer.

When we refer to a wrongful birth, this means the mother would have chosen to terminate the pregnancy if she had known about any birth defects.  

If the conditions were not diagnosed early enough due to clinical and medical negligence and the pregnancy went to full-term, then this is classified as a wrongful birth.  Compensation claims can be made for personal injury and birth injury claims in these circumstances.

Uterine Rupture and Placental Abruption

A uterine rupture is when the wall of the uterus tears.  Fortunately, this is quite a rare birth injury, but can occasionally happen when medical staff induce labour and don’t monitor the woman’s pregnancy correctly.  In the worst cases, this can lead to brain damage at birth for the baby, as oxygen will struggle to reach him or her.

If cases like this have been misdiagnosed and not correctly treated by your hospital then it can be a personal injury claim route that we can assist with as it falls under this category of birth injury negligence.

Pre-Eclampsia

Pre-eclampsia affects some women when pregnant.  It is a very common type of birth injury claim for compensation that we deal with.  It will typically occur during the second half of a pregnancy term and should be picked up easily by your doctor using blood and urine tests.

Some pre-eclampsia cases can lead to the death of mother and baby, and so is one of the more serious birth accidents that we are able to work on.  In most cases mother and baby will be left with health issues due to negligence and so birth injury compensation is typically sought.

Birth Injury Claims – During Labour

Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy can occur when a lack of oxygen is supplied to the baby during childbirth. This form of birth accident claim is entirely down to clinical negligence in most cases, and forms a large part of our birth injury compensation cases.

cerebral palsy birth injury compensation claims Manchester

To apply for birth injury claims for cerebral palsy, please get in touch with us as soon as possible. We will guide you on your case and put you in touch with one of our specialist birth injury lawyers.

Forceps Delivery or Ventouse Delivery

During some difficult labours, the decision will be made to use forceps or a Ventouse cup to deliver the baby. If this process is done incorrectly, or with unsuitable equipment or poorly trained medical staff, then problems can occur. This can include injuries to the baby such as scars, nerve damage, or other injuries.

Cases such as this qualify as a birth injury claim. We can pursue the correct avenues for personal injury compensation in these circumstances where we can prove the doctors or nurses were negligent.

Episiotomy and Second or Third Degree Tears

During childbirth, an episiotomy can be performed in order to deliver the baby easier. We deal with birth injury compensation claims in these cases if the episiotomy was administered incorrectly, or not at all, leading to tearing and injury.

Erb’s Palsy or Brachial Plexus Injuries

During your pregnancy, sufficient tests should have been carried to see how large your baby was. With larger babies, it can be advised to have the delivery by Caesarean section. However, if this was not picked up, the delivery of a larger baby can cause damage to both baby and mother.

Post Child-Birth Personal Injury

Congenital Hip Dysplasia

During your pregnancy, your baby should be tested for congenital hip dysplasia, which is a birth defect of the hip.  If diagnosed during the early part of the pregnancy, then this can be treated well with a positive outcome.  If not diagnosed by medical professionals, it can unfortunately mean the baby being born with a hip condition. In case such as this, you should seek to claim for birth injury compensation.

No Win No Fee Birth Injury Solicitors

Birth injury solicitors** are highly trained and experienced in the field of birth injury claim compensation. Whether your baby has suffered brain damage from oxygen deprivation or any other condition that we list further up this page, you can be certain of getting the best legal representation possible.

If you or someone you know has suffered in this way, then get in touch with us as soon as possible, as there are time limits upon which you can make a claim for personal injury.

Once you call us we will offer a free consultation on 01615 168 871^, and if we feel that there is a birth injury claim to answer then we will assign one of our expert birth injury solicitors** to your case. They all work on a no win, no fee* agreement and will visit you at your home or in hospital to discuss the next steps.

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