Connecticut cerebral palsy and birth injury resources and legal help

To get help, you should contact a Connecticut cerebral palsy and birth injury lawyer to assist you and your baby. Please fill out our contact form or call 860-956-5575 for the legal help you need.

When hiring a lawyer to represent you, it is essential that the attorney have the ability to incur the necessary expenses to properly represent a client with a birth injury. Pretrial expenses in these types of claims can run between $50,000-$100,000 and sometimes more. Trial expenses can exceed $50,000 or more.

The lawyer will need to hire a team of medical experts including an obstetrician, neonatologist, pediatric neurologist, pediatric neuroradiologist, placental pathologist, OB nurse, life care planner, and an economist.

When retaining an attorney, you want to be sure that that attorney and his law firm has the ability to forward the necessary costs and expenses to properly prepare the birth injury case, to be able to hire all the necessary experts and prepare the case the case for trial.

What you should know about hiring a personal injury attorney

First, it is important to realize that in virtually every state in the United States, personal injury attorneys are paid on a contingency fee basis. That means you will only be charged a legal fee if the attorney is successful in obtaining a recovery for you. Under a contingency fee, the attorney will be entitled to a percentage of the recovery.

In hiring a personal injury attorney, you will want to hire an attorney who has trial experience. Most state do not offer any trial certifications; however, most lawyers who are experienced in handling birth injury cases are members of the Birth Trauma Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice.

Secondly, it is important to hire a personal injury attorney that understands the problems that child with cerebral palsy and birth injuries experience. Children with CP and birth injuries need life treatment for educational, emotional, and physical complications.

Third, it is important to hire a personal injury attorney or law firm that has access to the financial resources necessary to properly prepare your case. Unlike when you break a bone and the only medical expert who will be necessary is the orthopedic surgeon, a child who sustains a birth injury will often be treated by many doctors from many specialties. Consulting Doctors will be needed to examine the treatment your child received from his/her doctors. Forensic expert witnesses require the expenditure of over $50,000.00, and will be needed to properly prepare a case which shows vocational loss and reduction in earning capacity.

When hiring a personal injury attorney to represent you, it is recommended you retain a trial attorney who has experience representing and trying birth injury cases, and who also has the financial resources to adequately prepare your case.

To get help, you should contact a Connecticut cerebral palsy and birth injury lawyer to assist you and your baby. Please fill out our contact form below or call 860-956-5575 for the legal help you need.