Birth Injuries

California Birth Injury Attorneys

Are you concerned that your child's injury may be due to medical negligence? Careful examination of medical records by a well-qualified professional may shed light on the subject. At Michels & Watkins in Los Angeles, Bradford S. Davis, M.D. leads a medical team that has done exactly that in hundreds of cases and recovered tens of millions of dollars.

If your family is grieving as a result of an injury to mother or child during birth, the pre-natal period, or the neonatal period, you deserve to find out what happened. If you would like to speak with a member of our medical team or with one of our lawyers, please contact our LA office and arrange a free consultation. It is our goal to help you uncover the truth. If you have been a victim of medical malpractice, and hire us to represent you, we will serve as tenacious advocates, fighting for your right to just compensation. Every birth injury case is unique, and only after discussing your situation with an attorney will you understand your legal position. In past cases our lawyers have won millions of dollars in birth injury cases.

Birth injury cases we have handled include:

• Birth trauma resulting from improper use of forceps or suction
• Vaginal birth after a cesarean section, resulting in a ruptured uterus and possible death or hysterectomy
• Delay in diagnosis of fetal distress, despite fetal monitoring information
• Delay in performing a C-section
• Brain injury resulting from lack of oxygen (brain hypoxia) or spinal cord damage
• Cerebral palsy from medical and hospital errors
• Premature birth resulting from a urinary tract infection, incompetent cervix, or other condition that could have been treated
• Necrotizing enterocolitis (bowel infection), bleeding in the brain, or lung problems resulting from an unnecessary premature birth
• Failure to monitor a mother with gestational diabetes
• Failure to identify macrosomia, a condition where the baby's head and shoulders are too large to pass through the birth canal
• Spinal cord injuries
• Paralysis
• Maternal Group B Strep infection

Verdicts and Settlements:

Jury verdict of $120 million in birth injury case: Our client, an intelligent and alert child of three, was unable to walk. Her parents had been told she had a rare muscle disease. Our doctor asked about the girl's birth and found it was a breech vaginal birth—an examination of an MRI done shortly after birth showed that the infant's spine had nearly been severed during birth. The jury awarded $120 million dollars in future value to the child, who now has the best equipment and care available, is learning to walk and plans on attending college.

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Who was responsible for your child's birth injury? Contact our LA office and arrange a free consultation. At Michels & Watkins our medical staff, led by Bradford S. Davis, M.D., will help you find out what went wrong. If the birth injury was preventable, our medical malpractice attorneys will hold those responsible accountable. Our Los Angeles firm serves clients throughout California and surrounding states. Our staff and our lawyers provide far more than legal services, giving our clients the support they need to survive following tragic obstetric incidents.