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Obstetrician Malpractice Lawyer
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald has been handling obstetrician malpractice claims for more than 30 years. Many of these claims resulted in multi-million-dollar jury verdicts and settlements, including the top medical malpractice verdict in the nation in 2002--$94.8 Million (Lawyers Weekly, USA).
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What is Obstetrician Malpractice?
Pregnancies and giving birth are the most natural things in the world, with the majority of them proceeding uneventfully towards producing healthy infants. However, this does not mean there aren't real dangers. Complications can occur even without negligent health care, but a failure to properly react to these complications can lead to catastrophic injuries for the infant, mother or both. Negligent health care can occur both during the prenatal and labor & delivery stages, resulting in permanent brain damage, developmental and cognitive delays, paralysis, and host of other life-long injuries, including heart problems, respiratory problems and more.
Often the nature and extent of the injuries are not immediately apparent. It is often impossible to know how severely an infant is injured until he grows and his progress can be contrasted with that of other infants of similar ages. Moreover, poor prenatal and labor/delivery care can injure the mother, resulting in strokes, brain damage and more, but these things also can happen without negligence. Winning an obstetrician malpractice case is all about proving that the injuries would not have occurred if not for the unsatisfactory health care.
Common defenses in an ob malpractice lawsuit include attributing the child's injuries to genetic errors, unavoidable prematurity due to fetal distress, and in-utero exposure to environmental toxins such as medications, alcohol, recreational drugs, household chemicals, pesticides, oral contraceptives, x-rays, cigarette smoke and more. Viral infections can also cause fetal injuries. A common vaginal or uterine infection can be passed to the child at delivery. Falls, blows to the abdomen or motor vehicle accidents may also have an impact on the developing fetus.
To find out about your rights and options in an obstetrician malpractice (ob malpractice) case, please contact us to confer with an attorney.
This Web site contains Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
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The jury verdicts reported on this site have, in many cases, been reduced by the Appellate Court or by post trial motions. This is common with jury verdicts. Prior results cannot guarantee or predict a similar outcome on any future matter.
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Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald, P.C. is a firm of trial lawyers based in New York with a national practice. We are capable of representing clients in every state of the United States. In New York our trial attorneys appear daily in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens and Staten Island (Richmond County). We also appear regularly in the counties of Westchester (Yonkers), Suffolk, Nassau and Orange. We have of counsel attorneys covering Rockland County, Dutchess County, Albany, Buffalo and all other New York counties. In New Jersey we have of counsel attorneys covering the counties of Passaic, Bergen, Hudson, Essex, (Newark), Union, Middlesex, Somerset, Mercer, (Trenton) Camden and Monmouth. We also have a network of of counsel attorneys with whom we work throughout the United States.
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