Child suffered severe brain injury at birth when mother's uterus ruptured during an attempt at vaginal birth after cesarean ( VBAC). Doctor and hospital failed to recognize signs of impending rupture and delayed c-section until rupture of uterus. Child has severe Cerebral Palsy.
Result: $14,850,000 jury verdict.
Oakland and California Birth Injury Attorneys
Over the last 30 years, the law firm of Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli & Brewer has handled numerous birth injury cases in Oakland and throughout northern California. Typically, in such cases justice is hard to come by. After all, what represents a "just" result when the happiest of days turns into something quite different? How do you compensate the parents of an infant who, due to the negligence or overconfidence of a health care provider, will never lead a "normal" life?
Birth injury cases are tragic. Our firm takes a holistic approach to birth injury cases. Our goal is to not only obtain the compensation required to deal with lifetime medical and quality of life issues, but we also strive to help our clients in other areas to make their lives easier, such as providing experience in Life Care Plans for victims who sustain catastrophic injuries.
Our firm is well-versed in birth injury cases and we have taken cases that involve mental retardation, cerebral palsy and seizures, as well as other medical practice issues such as failure to perform a C-section or diagnose fetal distress. As your advocates, the team will work closely with our own network of medical professionals in the Bay Area.
Clients are almost always assigned two attorneys, including a firm partner with anywhere from 25 to 40 years of experience. As aggressive as we are in our approach to winning birth injury cases, we are equally compassionate towards our clients. Communication is an important part of this. We want our clients to be informed, know and understand both the issues involved in their case and what we are doing to help them. This is simply about courtesy, respect and treating people not as customers or clients, but as fellow human beings who have experienced an enormous personal tragedy.
