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White Plains Birth Injury Lawyers

With over 35 years of experience with birth injury-related cases, Curan & Ahlers is ready to fight for you. Curan & Ahlers handles birth injury-related cases in White Plains, Westchester County, and throughout New York. If you’re looking for experienced White Plains birth injury attorneys, give us a call today.

New York Birth Injury Lawyer

When a newborn suffers an injury during pregnancy, labor, or delivery, families may face overwhelming emotional challenges, medical expenses, and long-term care needs. If your child’s injury resulted from preventable medical negligence, you may have grounds to pursue compensation against the responsible healthcare providers.

At Curan & Ahlers, LLP, our experienced New York birth injury lawyers represent families throughout New York City, White Plains, Westchester County, and surrounding communities. With over 35 years of personal injury experience, our attorneys investigate potential medical errors, review treatment records, and help families pursue compensation for injuries caused by negligent care.

If you believe your child’s condition resulted from a preventable medical mistake, our medical malpractice attorneys can help you understand your legal rights and determine whether a birth injury claim may be appropriate.

Why Hire a New York Birth Injury Attorney?

Birth injury cases often involve complex medical evidence, multiple healthcare providers, and questions about whether proper standards of care were followed. An experienced birth injury attorney in New York can investigate whether negligent medical treatment contributed to your child’s injuries.

Our legal team works to identify potential errors involving prenatal care, labor monitoring, delivery procedures, and emergency medical decisions. By reviewing medical records and consulting appropriate experts, we can determine whether healthcare providers failed to meet accepted standards of care.

Not every birth complication is caused by malpractice. However, when preventable mistakes result in serious injuries, families deserve answers and an opportunity to pursue accountability.

Common Causes of Birth Injuries in New York

Doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals must respond appropriately to complications throughout pregnancy and childbirth. When healthcare providers fail to recognize warning signs or act promptly, newborns may suffer serious injuries.

Potential causes of birth injuries involving medical negligence include:

• Negligent Prenatal Care: Failure to identify or properly manage pregnancy complications.

• Delayed Cesarean Sections: Failure to perform a timely C-section when medically necessary.

• Oxygen Deprivation: Inadequate monitoring or delayed intervention when a baby is not receiving sufficient oxygen.

• Failure to Monitor Fetal Distress: Ignoring abnormal fetal heart rates or other warning signs.

• Improper Use of Delivery Tools: Injuries caused by negligent use of forceps or vacuum extraction equipment.

• Delayed Emergency Treatment: Failure to respond appropriately to complications such as uterine rupture.

• Medical Staff Miscommunication: Poor coordination among healthcare professionals during labor and delivery.

These circumstances may support a medical malpractice claim when the evidence establishes that a healthcare provider’s failure to meet accepted standards of care caused the child’s injury.

Common Types of Birth Injuries

Birth injuries vary in severity, with some resolving through treatment and others causing lifelong disabilities. Common conditions associated with birth trauma include:

• Cerebral Palsy: A neurological condition affecting movement, muscle coordination, and posture that may sometimes be associated with preventable complications during birth.

• Brachial Plexus Injuries: Nerve damage affecting an infant’s shoulder, arm, or hand, including Erb’s palsy.

• Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE): Brain injury associated with insufficient oxygen and blood flow.

• Bone Fractures: Injuries involving the collarbone, arms, or other bones during difficult deliveries.

• Intracranial Hemorrhage: Bleeding within or around the brain.

• Spinal Cord Injuries: Serious damage potentially affecting movement, sensation, and long-term physical function.

Signs of a birth injury may include seizures, unusual muscle stiffness, limited movement, feeding difficulties, or delayed developmental milestones. These symptoms do not automatically indicate medical negligence, but they may warrant further medical evaluation.

If your child has experienced complications following delivery, our attorneys can investigate whether negligent care contributed to the injury.

Birth Injuries vs. Birth Defects

Birth injuries and birth defects are not the same. Birth defects typically develop before birth and may involve genetic, developmental, or environmental factors. Birth injuries generally result from harm occurring during pregnancy, labor, delivery, or the immediate period surrounding childbirth.

While many birth defects and injuries occur without negligence, certain conditions may be linked to inadequate prenatal monitoring, delayed diagnosis, or improper medical treatment.

Our attorneys evaluate the circumstances surrounding your child’s condition to determine whether a healthcare provider’s actions may support a legal claim.

Compensation Available for Birth Injury Claims in New York

Birth injuries can create substantial financial challenges, especially when a child requires ongoing therapy, specialized medical equipment, or lifelong assistance.

Depending on the circumstances, compensation in a New York birth injury lawsuit may include:

• Past and future medical expenses

• Physical therapy and rehabilitation

• Specialized medical equipment and assistive technology

• Long-term nursing and personal care

• Disability-related accommodations

• Pain and suffering

• Reduced future earning capacity

• Other eligible financial losses resulting from the injury

Our New York birth injury attorneys work to evaluate both immediate damages and anticipated future care needs when pursuing compensation for injured children and their families.

How Long Do You Have to File a Birth Injury Lawsuit in New York?

New York’s general statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims is two years and six months from the alleged malpractice or the end of qualifying continuous treatment.

However, special rules apply to injured children. Under New York law, the statute of limitations may be extended for minors, generally subject to a maximum 10-year extension from when the medical malpractice claim accrues. Parents’ individual claims may have different deadlines.

Claims involving public hospitals or government-operated healthcare facilities may also require earlier notices of claim. Because filing requirements vary, families should consult an attorney promptly rather than assume additional time is available.

If a child passes away because of alleged medical negligence, surviving family members may also have grounds for a wrongful death claim, which generally carries a two-year filing deadline from the date of death.

Contact Our New York Birth Injury Lawyers Today

If your child suffered a birth injury that may have resulted from negligent medical care, Curan & Ahlers, LLP can help your family explore its legal options.

Our attorneys represent families throughout New York City, White Plains, and Westchester County, investigating medical negligence and pursuing compensation for preventable injuries. We understand the long-term challenges birth injuries can create and are committed to helping families seek accountability and financial recovery.

Call (914) 428-3313 today for a free, no-obligation consultation with our New York birth injury attorneys.

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