Unfortunately, obstetrical accidents can occur during the labor and delivery process. Sometimes these obstetrical accidents occur as a result of negligence on the part of the nursing staff, the doctors or both. Moreover, the injuries that might appear to have been caused at birth may actually have occurred during the prenatal care. This is why it is extremely important to hire an attorney that is highly skilled in the area of birth injuries. Identifying the injury is the easy part; the hard aspect of birth injury litigation is identifying the cause of the injury.
Often times, where an otherwise strong birth injury case goes wrong, is that the Plaintiff’s Attorney fails to fully understand the medicine in the area of the injury and therefore fails to identify how the defense attorneys will defend the case. A person contemplating a medical malpractice case must fully understand what they are up against in litigating their claim. They will take on multiple law firms that are designed and funded to combat their claim. The law firms that practice in the area of medical malpractice are stocked with some of the finest and most sophisticated lawyers in the country. This is why it is imperative that you have a sophisticated lawyer investigating and fighting for your cause of action and recovery. It is not only imperative that your Attorney is sophisticated in medical negligence, it is equally as crucial that your attorney is well funded and willing to risk their own money to fight for your cause.
Medical malpractice actions are extremely expensive to litigate and highly risky. Therefore, your Attorney will have to employ some of the best experts in the world to represent and litigate your claim. More often than not, a medical malpractice legal cause of action requires experts in many different areas of medicine and economic analysis. Therefore, your Attorneys must be willing and able to risk their own money to higher these experts and risk the possible loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars. It can cost upwards of $100,000 dollars or more to litigate a medical malpractice claim. A sophisticated and experienced Medical Malpractice Lawyer will fund the litigation of your claim and he or she will only be reimbursed for those expenses if he or she wins the case. This is why it is very important to understand the background and training of the Attorney that will be representing your interest in your Medical Malpractice claim. I would urge anyone to be very careful in vetting their potential medical malpractice attorney and to fully understand which attorney will actually be handling your case and not just signing your case up to their firm and reassigning it to another, possibly less capable, attorney.