Learn About Your Family’s Legal Options After a Birth Injury Diagnosis in Orlando

If your child has been diagnosed with a birth injury, you are right to be thinking about your family’s legal rights. Birth injuries can prove to be incredibly expensive over a child’s lifetime, and they can cause pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, and other non-financial losses as well.

All of these are losses for which families can recover just compensation under Florida law.

Filing a birth injury claim requires proof of medical malpractice. As a result, if you think your family may have a claim, your first step is to engage a law firm that can evaluate the quality of care your family received during pregnancy, labor and delivery. There are additional steps involved in preparing to file a birth injury claim as well; and, to avoid unnecessary challenges, it is best if you can speak with a lawyer as soon as possible.

Filing a Medical Malpractice Claim for a Birth Injury in Orlando, Florida

While recovering just compensation for a birth injury involves filing a claim for medical malpractice, this doesn’t necessarily mean that you will have to go to court. In fact, the vast majority of successful medical malpractice claims settle without the parents ever setting foot in a courtroom. While the process is far from straightforward, your lawyer can handle the vast majority of the process for you, and your Orlando attorney can help you make an informed decision about whether to consider an out-of-court settlement.

An important factor in many birth injury cases is Florida’s statute of limitations. As a general rule, parents must file their claims within two years of the date of the medical error that caused their child’s birth injury. However, there are exceptions for cases in which it wasn’t possible to discover the error within this two-year period. With this in mind, regardless of how old your child is now, if you have only recently learned of your child’s diagnosis (or only recently begun to suspect malpractice), you should discuss filing a claim with a lawyer.

Damages Available to Orlando Families in Birth Injury Cases

In birth injury cases, Florida law allows parents to recover just compensation for the financial and non-financial costs of their child’s diagnosis. This includes not only costs incurred to date, but—crucially—also the costs they and their child will incur in the future. As a result, while there are no guarantees, settlements and verdicts in birth injury cases are often substantial, and filing a successful claim can be critical for managing the lifetime costs of a serious injury.

Contact Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm to Learn More About Filing a Birth Injury Claim in Orlando, Florida

If you have questions about filing a birth injury claim in Orlando, FL, we encourage you to contact us for a free initial consultation. It costs nothing to find out if you have a claim; and, if you do, you pay nothing unless you win. To schedule an appointment with an experienced Orlando birth injury attorney at Haliczer Pettis & Schwamm, P.A., please call 800-693-4465 or contact us online today.