Pregnancy and Birth Injuries
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 an attorney with significant birth injury litigation experience.
Knowledge and resources to bring justice to childbirth injury victims
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:
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Decof & Decof’s significant birth injury cases
- $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 as a result 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
- Multimillion-dollar settlement reached for severely brain-damaged child for misuse of vacuum extractor at delivery
Please see Our Record of Success for additional birth injury verdicts and settlements.
Let us help
Please contact our Providence, RI birth injury attorneys 24 hours a day for a free consultation. We offer clients a contingency fee arrangement, which means you pay no legal fees unless we obtain a verdict or settlement on your behalf.
