birth injury claims

For many people, pregnancy and giving birth is one of the happiest times of their lives and it's estimated that there are 700,000 successful births in the UK every year.

A baby's body is extremely sensitive and vulnerable at birth. Trauma during a birth accident to any area of the body, especially the head and neck, can have serious consequences and be extremely distressing for the baby and its parents.

Many birth injuries that occur towards either mothers or child are a direct result of unnecessary hospital practices and birth malpractice. Negligent doctors performing unnecessary cesarean sections (c-sections) increase the chance of reproductive damage in the mother and birth defects in the newborn. Epidurals can weaken contractions and carry the risk of paralysis.

A couple, whose son was starved of oxygen during his birth eight years ago, have been successful in their bid to win an accident claims compensation settlement on behalf of their child.

A family has started a negligence claim against North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust following an birth injury sustained by their daughter.

Mother of 5 year old Rupert Parsons is seeking £1.5 millionwith aninterim personal injurycompensation claim against the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust in a unique 'wrongful birth case'.

A nine year old boy has received a substantial payout after a hospital blunder during his birth.

According to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Evening Standard, Health Trusts in London are paying out more than the third of their total compensation payments to victims of Childbirth and Maternity blunders.

A 21-year-old man has won his court case for a personal injury claim against West Midlands Strategic Health Authority after staff at Sandwell General Hospital starved him of oxygen at birth, which led to brain damage.

He is now expected to receive compensation, from the health authority, totalling seven figures after the four-day High Court trial.

Council facing multiple claims from young people born with upper limb defects A schoolboy whose family claims his painful birth defects were caused by exposure to toxic waste before he was born has won the right to sue a local authority for personal injury and public nuisance.