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Minneapolis Lawyer: Birth Injury Claims

Childbirth should be cause for celebration. When a birth injury claims the life of a newborn or mother, or a baby suffers a permanent injury, that celebration quickly turns to grief. The family may suddenly find itself facing the overwhelming task of providing for a child with cerebral palsy, or returning home to face an empty nursery.

If your family suspects an obstetrician’s or nurse’s error caused a birth injury, or failed to prevent it, if your family suffered a tragic loss during pregnancy, childbirth or the neonatal period as a result of negligence, you deserve an impartial opinion about your child’s injury. You deserve an opportunity to tell your story to a personal injury lawyer with the experience and resources to help you find the truth.

Please feel free to contact Cotter Law Office and arrange a consultation. There will be no fee and no obligation. After I have reviewed your medical records and heard your story, I will provide the best information I can about what happened to your baby. Depending on the circumstances, I may call on medical experts and investigators to help determine whether to pursue the case further. Whether you come to me, or call on another lawyer to evaluate a claim for medical malpractice, I urge you to do so quickly, providing your attorney with as much time as possible to assemble evidence and prepare a case.

Attorney Patrick L. Cotter,
Birth Injury and Obstetric Malpractice Claims
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Greater Minnesota
Call 651.686.5347 for a free, confidential consultation

I have extensive trial experience, including experience in medical negligence and wrongful death litigation. I will do whatever I can to achieve favorable results for my clients.

Birth injury claims

Every birth injury case is complex and unique. As a lawyer, I believe it is my responsibility to take the time to really get to know my client. Only then can I explain to a jury the full extent of a family’s loss when a child dies or is disabled. I am prepared to consider cases involving a wide range of birth injuries and circumstances, including the following:

• Failure to diagnose fetal distress, failure to use fetal monitor
• Failure to perform a cesarean section early enough to prevent injury
• Surgical errors, anesthesia errors
• Forceps injuries
• Failure to note the umbilical cord wrapped around the baby’s neck
• Hospital acquired infections, staph infections
• Delivery room errors on the part of hospital staff
• Cerebral palsy, brain injury resulting from asphyxiation
• Shoulder dystocia, brachial plexus injury, paralysis, Erb’s palsy, other nerve damage, fractures
• Maternal injury, wrongful death due to the OB-GYN’s failure to treat pregnancy-induced hypertension, gestational diabetes or preeclampsia

Whether your family’s loss was simply an unforeseeable tragedy, or your baby was the victim of obstetric negligence, you deserve to tell your story and to get a well-founded opinion regarding your case. Please feel free to contact my Minneapolis firm to arrange a free, confidential consultation.

Attorney Patrick L. Cotter ∙ handling birth injury claims for clients in the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota