No parent should be left feeling powerless after their child’s birth injury. Get the answers you deserve with our specialist legal support.
Any injury to a child that happens immediately before, during, or after delivery is a birth injury. If something goes wrong and a mistake caused harm to you or your child, you might be able to claim for compensation.
Pregnancy and childbirth can be emotional and uncertain times, and it’s completely natural to expect safe, attentive care for both you and your child.
Any injury to a child that happens immediately before, during, or after delivery is a birth injury. It’s different to a birth defect, which is when damage is caused while the foetus is still in the womb. While bruising and swelling can happen, more severe injuries can have lifelong effects.
If something goes wrong and a mistake caused harm to you or your child, you might be able to claim for compensation. Our knowledgeable team can help you do this. We’ll also advocate for you to get any ongoing support you or your child need as a result of a birth injury.
Birth injuries can be caused by mistakes made by hospital staff, including:
To make a successful compensation claim, we’ll need to prove a direct link between medical negligence and your baby’s injury.
Our solicitors have years of experience investigating claims like this and know how to get expert evidence to give your case the best chance of success.
You may be able to make a birth injury claim if you or your child were harmed because a medical professional failed to provide the level of care that would reasonably be expected. This is known as medical negligence.
You might have grounds to claim if any of the following apply:
If you’re unsure whether what happened amounts to negligence, our team of birth injury solicitors can help you understand your position. We’ll listen to what happened, answer your questions, and help you understand whether you may have grounds to claim.
We are the largest medical negligence team in the UK. Find out about our partners, our clients and our specialist knowledge.
Our medical negligence team is the largest in the country. We’re known for our expertise handling birth injury cases and we have recovered more in damages for our medical negligence clients than any other UK law firm.
Choose Irwin Mitchell and - in addition to hands-on support from your assigned legal expert - you’ll also have free access to our Support and Rehabilitation coordinators who can ensure you’re supported locally too.
We’re also proud to work with a number of longstanding and trusted charity partners who can provide wider support to you and your family:
We also have extensive experience with the NHS Early Notification Scheme. If you’ve been referred, we can show you what to do next.
“The first time I noticed I was different was in primary school. When I was around 8, I noticed other children were writing, cutting things out and sticking things and I couldn’t quite keep up”.
Eva's mum first got in touch with us because she felt Eva’s care had been neglected at birth, which prompted us to start an investigation.
When Kelly and her husband received documentation we had obtained from the hospital, the words ‘cerebral palsy’ were used throughout – a diagnosis that had never been communicated to the family.
After we requested medical records and instructed independent medical legal experts, we worked hard to get Eva’s family the answers and support they deserved.
As a result of the compensation received from the settlement, we were able to appoint a support worker to help Eva with her day-to-day living.
Every claim is different, which means we can’t predict exactly how much compensation you or your child might receive. There are several factors that are considered when carefully calculating the needs of you and your child, and the amount of compensation you or your child required. These are:
Our birth injury solicitors aim to secure you a settlement that provides a full care package for your child, and if needed, for their lifetime.
We’ll make sure that their best interests are always put first, and we can help you manage your compensation award if you appoint Irwin Mitchell Trust Corporation (IMTC) as deputy.
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Scottish cases will be handled by the Scottish law firm with which we are associated, Irwin Mitchell Scotland LLP. The law relating to funding is different in Scotland and you will receive separate advice about what that means as well as a separate funding agreement.
