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Birth Injury and Cerebral Palsy

Milwaukee Birth Injury Attorney – 414-312-4186

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Based in Milwaukee, the birth injury lawyers at Jacquart & Lowe, S.C., have been representing clients throughout Wisconsin who have a child injured at birth, or diagnosed with brain damage during the first year of life, including babies who have suffered hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), or other birth injury that resulted in cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy (also called brachial plexus), or other permanent impairment, and mothers injured during labor and delivery

Highly Experienced Milwaukee Birth Injury Lawyer

Our experienced Milwaukee birth injury lawyers are committed to assisting you get the help for the medical expenses, rehabilitation, and other compensation arising from birthing injury due to doctor negligence or surgical malpractice. We understand the various causes of birthing injuries to the mother and the child, including the following:

  • failure to monitor fetal monitor tracings showing nonreassuring signs
  • misdiagnosis
  • delivery room error
  • surgeon error or doctor error
  • anesthesiology error
  • premature delivery
  • failure to determine proper due date
  • prolonged labor
  • failure to timely go to Cesarian section (C-section)
  • misuse of forceps
  • misuse of vacuum extractor
  • failure to respond to bleeding
  • failure to respond to umbilical cord entrapment
  • failure to detect umbilical cord prolapse
  • failure to diagnose maternal diabetes
  • failure to diagnose or treat pre-term labor
  • failure to diagnose or anticipate birth complications for a larger baby (macrosomia)
  • failure to treat fetal distress
  • uterine rupture
  • acute placental abruption

If you were injured, or if you lost a baby due to wrongful death, or had a baby suffer a birth injury such as cerebral palsy due to medical malpractice or the negligence of a hospital, obstetrician, or healthcare professional, you want experienced representation. Our firm is prepared to handle your case no matter what the injury. We represent families suffering from birth injuries, such as:

  • Hypoxic Ischemic
  • Encephalopathy
  • Erb's palsy
  • Brachial plexus
  • Shoulder dystocia
  • Stuck shoulder
  • Fractures
    • Subconjunctival
    • Hemorrhages
    • Excessive bruising
    • Facial paralysis
    • Succedaneum
    • And other injuries

    For a free confidential consultation and information on how a Milwaukee birth injury lawyer at Jacquart & Lowe can put over sixty years of personal injury and medical malpractice experience to work for you, call us at 414-312-4186, visit us at our office, or contact us now. Discover how we earned our reputation for legal excellence and our track record of success.

    For a sample of some of medical malpractice cases, including those involving birth injuries, examine our representative cases page.

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    Jacquart & Lowe, S.C. | 241 N. Broadway, Suite 202 | Milwaukee, WI 53202
    Tel: (414) 312-4186 | Fax: (414) 271-8299 | E-Mail Firm | Milwaukee Law Office