Experienced medical malpractice lawyers with a track record of success will represent families in relation to birth injury claims on a contingency basis, meaning that it costs nothing to speak with a lawyer and to have that lawyer advance the child’s interests legally. Fact of the matter is that advancing medical malpractice birth injury cases is time-consuming in terms of the legal work required and also expensive in terms of the cost of the experts that are required to make the case successful.
A typical birth injury case, for example, will need the medical opinion of a highly qualified OB-GYN and the medical opinion of other specialists: you know, neurologists, life care expectancy experts, life care planners, functional capacity, occupational therapists, in order to prove the elements that are needed to be successful, both in terms of a breach of the standard of care causing an injury. Those experts are essential. You cannot advance a successful medical malpractice birth injury case without good expert evidence. Experienced medical malpractice lawyers will fund the experts needed to make the case successful, and they will also fund that on a contingency basis. So at the end of the day, the family of a loved one who may have suffered a birth injury has nothing to lose by reaching out to an experienced birth injury lawyer and advancing the interests of that child who may unfortunately have lifelong consequences that could have been prevented.
