Birth Injury Lawyers In New York

If your child has suffered a permanently disabling injury, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Our team of lawyers and nationally-recognized medical experts will get you the answers you deserve, and deliver the very best options available to provide for your child’s future.
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If your baby was injured during childbirth, you are no doubt left feeling completely overwhelmed, and unsure where to turn. A disabled child will require millions of dollars of life-long medical care and treatment.

Some of the most severe birth injuries are entirely avoidable.

Many injuries to babies during labor and delivery are caused by grossly-negligent care and treatment by delivery room doctors, midwives, and/or nurses who fail to follow well-established medical protocols designed to protect babies from injury. Most birth injuries are permanent, and cause life-long damage.

And while some birth-related injuries are evident immediately, many are delayed, and not recognized/diagnosed until many months or even years later when your child fails to meet developmental milestones such as sitting up, crawling, walking, or speaking.
Mom holding a baby hand

Key Birth Injury Facts

- Cerebral Palsy is caused by lack of oxygen during labor and delivery.

- Erby’s Palsy is caused by trauma to baby’s Brachial Plexus during labor and delivery.

- 7 out of 1000 newborns are injured during childbirth.

- Only 7% of children injured during childbirth are diagnosed during the first year of life.

- 14% of birth injuries go undetected/undiagnosed until the child is school-aged.

- In New York, parents of a child injured during birth can file a medical malpractice lawsuit any time before their child turns 10 years old.

Learn About Specific Birth Injuries

The time just before, during, and after delivery is critical to newborns. Medical negligence can lead to injuries that may affect a child for the rest their life.

Close to 50% of all birth injuries are potentially avoidable by identification and planning for obstetrical risk factors. Injuries can occur when birth-assisting tools such as forceps or a vacuum extraction are used.

Brachial Plexus Palsy (Erb's Palsy)

Bone Fractures
Cephalohematoma
Cerebral Palsy

Caput Succedaneum
Perinatal Asphyxia
Intracranial Hemorrhage
Subconjunctival Hemorrhage
Facial Paralysis
Spinal Cord Injuries

Birth Injury Symptoms Can Include

Seizures
Muscle stiffness or looseness
Weak or absent reflexes
A limp arm
Inability to sit up, crawl, or walk
Excessive drooling
Missing developmental milestones

Close to 50% of all birth injuries are potentially avoidable by identification and planning for obstetrical risk factors. Injuries can occur when birth-assisting tools such as forceps or vacuum extraction are used.

The Porter Law Group takes great care to investigate every aspect of your child’s medical history. We work with some of the country’s very best medical experts to obtain reliable opinions and get you the answers you need for your child.

The Porter Law Group takes great care to investigate every aspect of your child’s medical history. We work with some of the country’s very best medical experts to obtain reliable opinions and get you the answers you need for your child.

What's At Stake?

When your child has suffered a profound birth injury, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Birth injuries are typically catastrophic, result in permanent disability, and often require millions of dollars of medical care over a child’s lifetime.

We know you are likely to be feeling overwhelmed by the daunting prospect of years of astronomical medical expenses, and emotional stresses which accompany the process of raising a child with a significant disability. Also, a disabled child will often suffer the impacts of profound physical and neurologic injuries for the remainder of his or her life.

We also know you may be intimidated by the process of consulting with a lawyer. Don’t be. Consulting with our lawyers is free to you. Let our experience go to work for you and your child. Our attorneys and medical experts will get you the answers you deserve, and help put you in position to recover a settlement or verdict to cover medical expenses and lost wages, and for the pain and suffering your child endures each and every day.

Our team of lawyers and medical experts will outline the exact nature of compensation available in a medical malpractice claim, and will walk you through each step of the process. We know this can all be intimidating, and we make it our business to help you understand and get comfortable with the process.

What Can Our Firm Do For You and Your Child?

Medical providers mislead many parents of babies injured during childbirth into believing that the injuries were either inevitable or unavoidable — when, in fact, a careful analysis of the medical records can reveal that mistakes were made, and the injuries were entirely preventable.

You need our team of experienced and sophisticated lawyers and medical experts on your side to uncover the truth about what actually happened in the labor and delivery room. Medical records are stored at the hospital where your child was born and contain the truth about what actually happened the day your baby was born. We will obtain those medical records and have them reviewed by some of our country’s foremost medical experts to learn whether mistakes were made and whether the injuries to your baby should have been avoided.

If you have any suspicion that a medical provider’s negligence caused injury to your child, do not hesitate to contact us. The consultation with our team of lawyers is free to you and will provide the peace of mind you crave as you think back and wonder whether the injuries to your child could have been avoided.

Please review some of the stories of our clients' experiences with our firm and know that we are here to help. We will be your strongest ally as you try to navigate these uncertain times, and get the answers you deserve

Get the answers you deserve. If you suspect a medical provider’s negligence caused injury to your child, call the Porter Law Group at 833-PORTER9, or email us at info@porterlawteam.com for a free consultation.

Our Past Results Speak for Themselves

Confidential Settlement Reached Prior to Trial

$17,800,000
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$13,500,000
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Settlement – Birth Injury

Premature infant suffered profound and permanent disabilities due to physicians’ failure to properly manage mother’s pre-gestational diabetes.

$8,300,000
Premature infant suffered profound and permanent disabilities due to physicians’…

Confidential Settlement Reached Prior to Trial

$8,250,000
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Why Porter Law Group?

Clients come to see us after they’ve received the worst news they can ever hear. We never forget this or that a courtroom success or settlement in our client’s favor has the power to change a family’s life and give them the ability to start to pick up the pieces and move on with their lives as best they can.
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If you or a family member has suffered a catastrophic injury or death due to someone’s negligence, you get only one shot to hire the best law firm for your family—the one with the experience and proven ability to get our clients the justice they deserve. Choose the Porter Law Group.
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