Birth Injury – Military Medical Malpractice
The care and upbringing of a child with birth trauma can be enormously expensive requiring highly skilled care involving many different kinds of health care providers. It is important to ensure that you are taken care of and compensated properly.
Yet for current and former members of the Armed Forces, pursuing compensation may seem like a conflict of interest. In spite of the fact that you or a family member has sustained a serious injury during delivery, you may wonder how making a claim against the government will be viewed by colleagues and superiors.
At Swartz & Reed, LLP, we apply our combined greater than 50 years of combined legal, military, and medical experience to helping military and former military personnel obtain compensation for serious military medical negligence cases involving pregnancy and childbirth.
Contact us today for more information.
Addressing Medical Malpractice Cases Related to Pregnancy & Childbirth
Find out how Swartz & Reed, LLP obtained a multi-million dollar settlement for a client on active duty in the US Army who gave birth to a daughter with neonatal Group B Strep sepsis and cerebral meningitis – undiagnosed conditions which led to permanent brain damage. Visit our How We Helped Our Clients page.
Swartz & Reed, LLP handles serious medical malpractice cases. Cases we have handled that are related to pregnancy and childbirth include:
- Failing to respond to fetal distress caused by lack of oxygen resulting in brain damage to the baby
- Erb’s palsy (nerve damage) which often results from excessive tension during delivery to the baby's nerves which are located at the upper arm
- Shoulder dystocia, difficult delivery often due to a disproportionately large baby, which has difficulty passing through the birth canal and often injures nerves in the baby's upper arm
- Failure to properly deliver baby after premature rupture of membranes
- Umbilical cord problems
Serving Those Who Serve
Our military medical malpractice attorneys are skilled lawyers with backgrounds in the military as well as the fields of law and medicine. Our insight and knowledge of military protocol, medical malpractice claims, and neonatal complications has allowed us to get to the heart of serious catastrophic injuries and fatalities associated with pregnancy and childbirth, and maximize compensation.
When you or a loved one has been injured in a case of medical negligence, the government wants to take care of you. Our job is to make sure the government knows the extent of the injury or condition so that the compensation you receive is appropriate.
Note: Case outcomes and results depend upon many factors that are unique to each case. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar result in any future case undertaken by Swartz & Reed, LLP.
If you or a family member has had to face the devastating, life-altering repercussions of a birth injury, or if you have lost a spouse or child during childbirth while in the care of a military medical facility, we invite you to contact Swartz & Reed, LLP in Washington, D.C. Our practice is both nationwide and international.
