Grand Rapids Birth Injury Lawyer

Our Birth Injury Lawyers Help Those Harmed by Medical Negligence

Delivering a baby involves attentive care — doctors must take precautions to ensure an infant and mother are healthy throughout the birthing process. Although newborn babies are extremely delicate, birth injuries are not normal and are most often the result of medical negligence.

A doctor or nurse’s careless mistake can cause a lifetime of distress to the victim’s family. The Grand Rapids birth injury lawyer at Goodman Acker P.C. can help your family recover the compensation you deserve following an instance of medical negligence during an infant delivery.

Why Choose Us as Your Grand Rapids Birth Injury Lawyer

At Goodman Acker, we know the importance of giving our clients the highest level of service. Our team works hard to treat every client like we’d treat our own family. Actually, because we have been working as birth injury lawyers in the Grand Rapids area for so long, it almost feels like everyone we serve is our family. Here are some of the items that set us apart from other law firms in the Grand Rapids area.

• Our team has more than 150 years of legal experience working as personal injury lawyers.
• Our success rate for cases that we conclude is 99%.
• When clients have emergencies, we are available 24/7 for them.
• We offer free initial consultations to all clients.
• You do not pay us anything unless we win an award for you.
• Our Clients Trust Our Grand Rapids Birth Injury Lawyer.

Although we are proud to have won several seven-figure settlements for our clients, including multiple medical malpractice settlements at that amount, we take even more pride in the testimonials our clients write after we serve them.

We know that you are placing your trust in us to help you receive the result you want, and we take that responsibility very seriously. It’s important for us to give all our clients the highest possible level of service, and our positive client testimonials show that we are succeeding in that area.

Attorney Barry Goodman, who is our founding partner, leads our team and sets the tone for how we always put the interests of our clients first. He saw first-hand as a child how his father suffered life-altering injuries while on the job, yet no one stood up for his rights or helped him seek justice.

After seeing that, he wanted to find a way to help victims of the negligence of others, which he did by becoming an attorney. Over his years in practice, Attorney Goodman has earned a number of awards, including:

• Named the Nation’s Top One Percent of Attorneys by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel.
• Named Top 100 Personal Injury Lawyer by The National Trial Lawyers.
• Named as Leaders in Law by the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association.
• Holds a 10.0 Superb rating from Avvo.
• Holds AV® Rating from Martindale-Hubbell®.
• Included on Super Lawyers® list.
• Included on Michigan Lawyers Weekly 2021 Hall of Fame list.

How Goodman Acker Can Help You

Our Grand Rapids birth injury lawyer knows that going through a situation where your baby suffered an injury at birth is extremely stressful. When you suspect that one of the medical professionals caring for you and your baby caused the injury, you may struggle to believe it.

After all, doctors and nurses are highly trusted professionals. Although this is true, they sometimes make mistakes that they could’ve prevented through a little extra preparation or by studying the situation more thoroughly.

It can be intimidating for you as a patient to accuse a medical professional or the hospital of wrongdoing. That’s where our Grand Rapids birth injury lawyer can provide an invaluable service for you. Our team has the experience to be able to decipher when a case of negligence led to your baby’s injury.

We constantly study medical information and new techniques used in births, so we are able to figure out if a mistake may have occurred. We then interview you, any witnesses to the birth injury, and third-party medical experts to gain a feel for any error the medical professionals may have made.

When doctors try to explain what went wrong with the birthing process, they may use complex medical terminology that leaves you more confused. You might feel like the doctors are being dismissive or are simply trying to confuse you to keep you from asking questions they don’t really want to answer.

Trust the team at Goodman Acker to explain everything to you in terms that you can understand. We promise to ask the doctors the tough questions on your behalf.

Types of Legal Cases Our Grand Rapids Birth Injury Lawyer Handles

Assisting with a birth requires expert medical knowledge and delicate care. Newborn babies and their mothers are vulnerable to injury during delivery, so there is no room for negligence. Any error can cause severe injury and lifelong complications. If you suspect someone’s negligent actions led to your child’s injury, contact our birth injury lawyer in Grand Rapids.

An injury suffered during birth has the potential to cause issues for the rest of the injured infant’s life, to cause health complications for the mother, or to be fatal to both a mother and her child. That is why it is so important to seek legal representation as soon as possible. Our Grand Rapids birth injury attorney can help you understand your legal options. You should not speak to insurance companies or hospital representatives before seeking our guidance.

Many of the most common types of birth injuries are serious conditions that impact major organ systems such as the brain, nerves, and spinal cord. Full compensation for these injuries in a birth injury lawsuit can be substantial, so hospitals, medical providers, and insurance companies will use a range of tactics to avoid paying a large settlement or to avoid a large award in a trial. Some common birth injuries that may lead to legal cases include:

Our Grand Rapids Birth Injury Attorney Helps You Understand Negligence

Delivering a baby is a complex process that requires the care and expertise of an experienced medical professional. Any mistake during the birthing process can cause harm to the baby and mother. There is an expectation that medical professionals will uphold a duty to provide their services with great care.

There are numerous actions to take to prevent birth injuries. It is up to the attending doctors and nurses to not only deliver the baby carefully, but also to prepare for the procedure properly, to identify and respond to any risks or complications, and to utilize delivery aids (such as tools and medication) when necessary.

Some causes of birth injuries may be directly related to negligent actions:

How Our Birth Injury Lawyer in Grand Rapids Proves Negligence

We understand how a birth injury can drastically change the direction of your life and your child’s future. Our Grand Rapids birth injury lawyer can prove how those who are responsible for your child’s injury were negligent.

Proof of negligence is central to winning a settlement or winning in court if your case goes to trial. Our attorneys would need to show that the following four elements took place:

Duty of care: Healthcare professionals and medical facilities are responsible for providing medical care during the birth of your child to the best of their abilities at all times.

Breach of duty: If doctors, nurses, or a hospital fail to provide you with the level of care required by the Michigan Board of Medicine, their actions, or inactions, may be considered a breach of duty.

Breach of duty caused injury: It must be shown that a birth injury occurred because you were not provided the required level of care during your child’s birth.

Link the breach of duty with injury: If our Grand Rapids birth injury lawyer can prove that a causal relationship occurred, we can pursue a legal case. We must show that a breach of duty by providers or the hospital, or both, caused your child to suffer a severe birth injury.

We don’t take on a case unless we feel we can win. You will have no up-front costs, and we get paid only if we succeed. Find out how we can help you. Those who are responsible for the grave injury to your child should be held responsible. Our team at Goodman Acker will dedicate ourselves to fighting for the full compensation you deserve. You can depend on the experience and skill of our birth injury lawyer at Goodman Acker.

Call our team today at 248-286-8100 or visit our Grand Rapids Office to speak to our birth injury attorney: 1500 E Beltline Ave SE Suite 235, Grand Rapids, MI 49506

Our Grand Rapids Birth Injury Lawyer Helps Determine Who Is at Fault

When injuries occur during the delivery of an infant, medical negligence is a frequent cause. Birth injuries can happen because a doctor’s or nurse’s negligence causes harm to the baby or mother, or a negligent medical professional can cause further harm if they do not properly respond to an injury. Some births are difficult due to preexisting conditions or issues not caused by medical negligence. However, it is the delivering doctor’s responsibility to be aware of those issues and address them.

Although the tending medical staff will most often be primarily liable for birth injuries, it’s possible that a third party is also liable. For example, hospital administrators could be responsible for causing harm by understaffing their facility, overworking their employees, or not providing the proper equipment.

Goodman Acker P.C. Helps You Seek Birth Injury Damages

Birth injuries often result in long-term, and even lifelong, complications. A baby who is injured during birth may sustain conditions that require extended treatment, including surgery, medical devices, medications, in-home care, and rehabilitation.

A birth injury can be fatal to the mother and her child. If your loved one passed away due to birth injury complications, our legal team can help you recover compensation for your pain and suffering.

Common Questions for Our Grand Rapids Birth Injury Lawyer

When your expectations of a normal birthing process go terrifyingly wrong, leaving you or your newborn with severe injuries, you understandably have a lot of questions. When you hire our Grand Rapids birth injury lawyer to represent you, trust that we will take the time to answer any questions you have. Here are some common questions our clients have, as well as our answers, so you can gain a feel for how the team at Goodman Acker handles this type of case.

When you or your baby is the victim in a birth injury case where medical professionals behaved negligently, it can be a lonely feeling. The hospital and the doctors have a team of lawyers who may try to make you feel guilty about what happened and about blaming them for the injuries.

When you hire Goodman Acker, though, we can even the playing field. We do not allow lawyers on the other side to try to bully you or treat you unfairly. We take the time to answer any questions you have. We promise to stand by your side from the time you hire us until the case concludes.

Schedule a No-Cost Evaluation with Our Grand Rapids Birth Injury Lawyer

At Goodman Acker P.C., we are committed to helping injury victims and their families receive the answers, care, and compensation they deserve. We understand the confusion and frustration you are feeling at this moment and want to serve as a network of support to your family.

LEGALLY REVIEWED BY BARRY J. GOODMAN

Barry J. Goodman has devoted his professional life to keeping courthouse doors open for victims seeking justice. Always a tireless advocate for his own clients, Goodman sees his responsibility as a Detroit personal injury attorney in a broader sense as well. [ Attorney Bio ]