Iowa Birth Injury Cases Galligan, Doyle, Reid & Galligan, P.C.

Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyers - Fighting for a Safer Iowa

Every expectant mother or couple is concerned about ways to help ensure the safe delivery of a healthy baby at the conclusion of a successful pregnancy. Avoiding medical malpractice is a top concern of a mother who is planning to give birth in a hospital or other type of health care facility.

If your child has already been injured as a result of birth trauma of any kind, he or she may now have to cope with such disabilities as the following:

• Cerebral palsy, sometimes resulting in paralysis or quadriplegia
• Erb’s palsy
• Shoulder dystocia
• Mental retardation due to skull fracture or lack of oxygen during birth (brain damage)

Was eclampsia malpractice or any other error or act of neglect committed by your obstetrician or hospital responsible for your baby’s birth injury? Discuss your baby’s case with an experienced Des Moines, Iowa, personal injury lawyer by contacting Galligan, Doyle, Reid & Galligan, P.C.

Serious injuries can occur during labor and delivery when physicians, midwives, or obstetrical nurses fail to monitor a fetus’s vital signs with enough vigilance to know when a C-section should be performed. Failure to recognize fetal distress through lax or faulty monitoring may result in the failure to deliver a baby in a timely manner, as dictated by circumstances.

Erb’s palsy may occur if too much traction is applied to the head during delivery when a shoulder is caught on the mother’s pelvic bone. Well-qualified doctors know alternative techniques to use to dislodge the shoulder without harm. This is but one example of why birth injuries should not happen – and why insurers should help families bear the burden of the consequences when they do happen.

The Des Moines law firm of Galligan, Doyle, Reid & Galligan, P.C., keeps a nurse on staff to help evaluate potential birth injury cases. We help obtain compensation for injured babies and their families in Iowa birth injury legal cases.

Initial consultations at Galligan, Doyle, Reid & Galligan, P.C., are free. If we agree to take your case, our attorneys’ fees will be paid on a contingency basis, if and when we obtain a settlement or verdict in your favor. Contact us through this Web site.