Birth Injury Claim Type Guide

“Birth injury” covers many different medical and legal questions

First identify whether the concern involves maternal injury, fetal monitoring, delivery timing, delivery mechanics, resuscitation, newborn treatment, infection, medication, or another event. The necessary records and expert specialties depend on that distinction.

Create two linked timelines

• Maternal prenatal, labor, delivery, and postpartum course
• Newborn status, resuscitation, nursery/NICU care, and later development

Records commonly reviewed

• Prenatal and admission records
• Labor notes and fetal monitoring
• Delivery and operative records
• Newborn examinations and resuscitation notes
• NICU, imaging, neurologic, therapy, or developmental records as applicable

Keep outcome and negligence separate

A difficult delivery or childhood diagnosis does not itself establish malpractice. Experts may need to address standard of care, timing, causation, and alternative explanations.