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What is birth Injury?
 A birth injury may occur during labor and birth when a doctor
or nurse does not react quickly and appropriately to signs
of patient distress. Birth injuries can vary from bone fractures
to brain damage to paralysis. Many birth injuries are life
long and require the family to take special care and make
special provisions for their child.
Two of the most significant types of birth injuries are
Cerebral Palsy and Erb’s or Brachial Plexus Palsy.
Our firm has represented children and families in a variety
of birth injury cases including: Brachial Plexus injuries;
Erbs’s palsy; Cerebral Palsy; Birth Hypoxia; Fetal
Death occurring before or during birth.
Medical negligence and birth injury law is becoming more
specialized and work as well as resource intensive. Kent
M. Lucaccioni, Ltd. has successfully represented clients
in numerous medical negligence and birth injuries cases.
if you or a family member has suffered injuries or death
as a result of a medical mistake. please contact our office
for a free legal evaluation or complete our case evaluation
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Medical
negligence or malpractice is negligence committed by a professional
health care provider - a doctor, nurse, dentist, psychiatrist,
podiatrist, hospital or hospital worker - whose performance
or duties departs from a standard of care of those with
similar training and experience, resulting in harm to a
patient. Medical negligence can result from a failure to
act or from acting improperly.