Birth Injury Compensation Claims

Birth Injury Compensation Claims

If your child suffered a birth injury due to medical negligence, we have the specialist expertise required to help you claim the compensation they deserve.

Claiming birth injury compensation can help you to ensure all of your child’s immediate and long term needs are met. This can help you to give them the best possible quality of life and make sure they are able to reach their full potential.

Our specialist team can also claim for on-going support for your child including for therapy, equipment, transportation, house adaptations and rehabilitation where required.

We understand what a worrying and confusing situation this can be to deal with, but our team is here to help make a claim as straightforward and stress-free as possible for you and your family.

Please do not worry if you are uncertain whether you have a claim – our team is here to listen, support you and guide you through this process.

Our team of specialist solicitors can offer you:

  • A free initial assessment of your claim
  • Decades of specialist experience with birth injury claims
  • Independently accredited expertise you can trust
  • A sympathetic, personal service
  • Legal aid funding
  • No win, no fee birth injury claims (for any costs not covered by legal aid)
  • Representation for clients anywhere in England and Wales
  • The best chance of securing maximum birth injury compensation

Call our free 24-hour claims line for a fast assessment of your birth injury claim

Want to find out if your child is entitled to birth injury compensation? You can call our 24-hour claims line to book an assessment with someone from our specialist medical negligence legal team.

Call now on 0800 988 0772 to book your initial assessment.

Types of birth injury claims we can help you to claim compensation for

Our expertise includes claims related to:

  • Birth asphyxia
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Maternal infections
  • Erb’s palsy
  • Misuse of forceps or vacuum delivery
  • Miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death
  • Birth injuries to the mother

Why trust Medical Accident Experts with your birth injury claim?

Our team has decades of specialist experience handling all types of medical negligence claims, including birth injury claims. Over the years, we have achieved a very high success rate for our clients, having secured many millions of pounds in compensation.

Members of our team hold a range of accreditations, providing independent assurance of the quality of our service. These include:

  • Law Society Clinical Negligence panel membership
  • Law Society Personal Injury panel membership
  • Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA) Clinical Negligence panel membership
  • Membership of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)
  • Head of Clinical Negligence and Medical Accidents Linda Levison is ranked as one of the top 50 female lawyers in the UK by Super Lawyers, a highly respected listing published by Thomson Reuters

Time limits for birth injury claims

You will normally have until your child’s 21st birthday to make a birth injury compensation claim.

However, if they are deemed to lack the mental capacity to pursue a claim on their own behalf, there is no time limit to claim.

For birth injuries to the mother, you usually have three years to claim from the date where you were aware of the injury and that medical negligence may have occurred.

Funding for birth injury claims

Legal aid for birth injury compensation claims

We hold a legal aid franchise and are able to offer legal aid for birth injury claims.

If you would like to find out more about legal aid for birth injury claims and whether your child is eligible, please call our free 24-hours claims line on 0800 988 0772 to book an initial assessment with our team and we will be happy to discuss this.

No win, no fee birth injury claims

We offer no win, no fee funding for birth injury claims.

Birth injury medical negligence success stories

£75,000 for family of brain damaged baby due to failure to deliver earlier

Our birth injury solicitors acted for a 28-year-old woman whose baby died at the age of 6 months after suffering oxygen deprivation during birth.

The woman had attended hospital to give birth after starting labour. During the birth, medical staff failed to properly watch and interpret the information provided by birth monitoring equipment, thus failing to realise that the baby was experiencing oxygen deprivation and that a caesarean section should have been ordered.

The baby was born with severe brain damage due to the prolonged lack of oxygen to his brain and, sadly, he died aged only 6 months old.

Our team represented the family in their claim against the hospital and were able to agree a settlement of £75,000 in damages.

Read more about this case here.

Call our free 24-hour claims line for a fast assessment of your birth injury claim

To find out if your child is entitled to birth injury compensation, call our free 24-hour claims line now on 0800 988 0772 to book an assessment with someone from our specialist medical negligence team.

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