Birth injury compensation claims

How can compensation help?

Suffering an injury at birth can have a significant impact on the development of your baby and may lead them to acquire additional needs. They may need significant funding for therapies, aids, special educational needs support, care and equipment. Again, depending on the severity of the injury your child’s capability of living independently may be compromised and they may have prolonged needs for care and support that you may not always be able to provide. A successful claim will look into the future, quantify these needs and make sure you and your child will have the funds needed to meet them.

Birth injuries can be very traumatic for the person giving birth too and impact them in many ways ranging from suffering from long-term physical injuries all the way to psychological trauma and PTSD. In some cases they can impact someone’s ability to return to work, sexual relations or even mean they will struggle in subsequent pregnancies. A civil claim can help you understand what may have happened and help you secure the funds to get you as close to where you would have been had you not suffered the injury. That includes funds for therapies, elective surgeries you may need but also support with any loss of earnings you may have suffered because of it.

In most of our cases our clients seek a lot more than financial compensation. It is an opportunity to find out what may have happened in their care, get an apology from anyone responsible for it and help raise awareness of mistakes to stop them from happening again.