Birth Injury Attorney

A doctor's actions or inactions before, during, or after delivery can cause permanent injuries to a child and/or mother. Claims alleging child delivery mistakes are extremely complex and difficult to prove, and their success requires a birth injury attorney with significant birth injury litigation experience.

Knowledge and resources to bring justice to childbirth injury victims.

Birth Injury Lawsuit Expertise

Decof & Decof has more than 25 years of experience championing the rights of children who were injured because of negligence during their prenatal care or delivery.

We fully investigate every claim to determine liability. If we pursue a claim, we do so with the full force of our accumulated wisdom and experience in this complex area of medical malpractice law.

Child delivery errors can include inadequate pre-natal care and diagnosis; failure to monitor fetal condition; improperly administered epidurals, pain killers, and other anesthetics; C-section and emergency C-section procedures; improper delivery; and negligent use of delivery-assistance devices. These errors can result in the following:

• Death
• Mental disability
• Brain damage
• Developmental disorders
• Cerebral palsy

• Brachial plexus injuries
• Shoulder dystocia (Erb's palsy)
• Maternal C-section complications
• Uterine rupture
• Spinal cord injuries

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Some examples of cases that Decof & Decof birth injury lawyers have handled:

• $3 million judgment following a jury verdict against a physician and a hospital on behalf of the family of a child who was born brain-damaged because of the negligent failure to deliver the child promptly following a placental abruption
• $1.2 million judgment following a jury verdict against an obstetrician on behalf of a child who suffered a brachial plexus nerve injury due to a negligently performed delivery
• Multi-million dollar personal injury settlement in Providence, RI reached for severely brain-damaged child for misuse of vacuum extractor at delivery
• Multi-million dollar settlement reached for delay in delivering brain-damaged child who was suffering severe distress before birth
• Multi-million dollar settlement reached for family of brain-damaged child against hospital for failure to deliver by caesarian section
• Confidential settlement for hypoxic ischemic birth injury to an infant
• Confidential settlement for Erb’s palsy birth trauma
• $2.5 million verdict when the jury found that a midwife and Women & Infants Hospital negligently treated a young mother in labor resulting in the wrongful death of a newborn
• Multi-million dollar settlement of wrongful death of a baby for failure to deliver the child emergently, when the heart rate monitor showed serious distress
• Multi-million dollar settlement against a drug manufacturer on behalf of a child who was born without arms or legs due to his exposure to a drug his mother ingested before his birth

Let Us Help

Please contact one of our attorneys to schedule a free consultation. We offer clients a contingency fee arrangement, which means you pay no legal fees unless we obtain a verdict or settlement for your case of malpractice. We cover all areas of RI, including Providence plus the Boston, MA area and southern CT.