If your baby or child was diagnosed with Erb’s palsy after suffering complications at birth, you may be entitled to recover compensation from an Erb’s palsy lawsuit or settlement. Contact an Erb’s palsy birth injury lawyer to request a free case review.
A team of birth injury lawyers and personal injury attorneys is investigating potential Erb’s palsy lawsuit cases and settlement claims of families and parents whose children have suffered from Erb’s palsy due to birth related medical malpractice or negligence.
Erb’s palsy (also known as Erb–Duchenne paralysis) is a form of brachial plexus injury resulting from damage to the upper brachial plexus nerves (C5, C6 or C7) in a baby’s upper arm or neck that typically occurs in the birth canal during difficult labor. It is similiar to Klumpke’s palsy which involves damage to lower brachial plexus nerves.
For every 1,000 babies born, an estimated one to two babies will suffer from Erb’s palsy. Although mild forms of Erbs palsy can clear up within a few months, more severe Erbs palsy cases can result in permanent paralysis and/or may require surgery, nerve grafts or nerve transfers.
Erb’s Palsy Lawsuit Cases
Erb’s palsy lawsuit and settlement cases potentially being investigated include claims of families and parents of children who suffered from Erb’s palsy due to possible birth related medical malpractice or negligence:
- Erb’s palsy
- Erb–Duchenne paralysis
- Neurapraxia
- Neuroma
- Nerve tears or ruptures
- Avulsion
- Other birth injury lawsuit cases
Erb’s Palsy Medical Malpractice Claims
Erb’s palsy can be caused by a physician or OB-gyn forcefully pulling or tugging excessively on a baby’s arm, shoulder, neck or head during child birth which traction stretches or tears the nerves and may occur with births that involve the following, among others:
- Cephalo-pelvic disproportion (head too large for birth canal)
- Macrosomia (a big baby)
- Head first delivery (cephalic presentation)
- Breech delivery
- Shoulder Dystocia
- Lateral traction during a C-section
- Vacuum delivery
- Forceps delivery
- Labor where second stage lasts longer than one hour
- Other Erb’s palsy medical malpractice claims
Erbs’s Palsy Signs, Symptoms & Complications
Erbs palsy signs and symptoms can include, among others:
- Inability to move part of arm, hand or shoulder
- Weakness in arm
- Loss of feeling in arm
- Numbness in arm
- Partial paralysis of arm
- Complete paralysis of arm
- Bent arm held close to body
- Limp arm
- Waiter’s tip hand
- Unable to grip with one hand
- Weak reflexes
- Pain in neck, shoulder or arm
- Atrophy of deltoid, bicep or brachialis muscles
- Loss of arm function
- Contractions of the arm like those of cerebral palsy
- Other Erb’s palsy symptoms or signs
Time Is Limited To File An Erb’s Palsy Lawsuit. Connect With an Erb’s Palsy Birth Injury Lawyer.
Deadlines known as statutes of limitation and statutes of repose may limit the amount of time that parents, families and other claimants have to file an Erb’s palsy lawsuit case to try to recover compensation for birth injuries such as Erb’s palsy.
This means that if an Erb’s palsy injury lawsuit claim is not filed before the applicable time limit or deadline, the claimant may be barred from ever taking legal action or pursuing litigation regarding the Erb’s palsy injury claim. That is why it is important to connect with an Erb’s palsy birth injury lawyer or attorney as soon as possible.
If your child has suffered from a birth related injury such as Erb’s palsy, you may be entitled to recover compensation from an Erb’s palsy lawsuit or settlement. Contact an Erb’s palsy birth injury lawyer to request a free case review.
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