Birth Injury Compensation Claims Solicitors in Chelmsford
Healthcare providers play a key role in helping us build our families. The trust we place in them is perhaps unparalleled. Unfortunately, however, during the sensitive process of pregnancy and birth care, sometimes things go wrong.
Whilst we recognise that there’s no way to reverse what you experienced, we do believe that the effects of a traumatic birth managed with financial compensation, as it broadens what sorts of treatments are accessible to you. Bringing a claim for compensation also offers you representation, ensuring your voice is heard.
Sharon Allison, our experienced head of Medical Negligence, has advocated for the proper compensation of mothers and their children for decades and is a Fellow of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, a not-for-profit organisation that advocates for and finds resources to support injury victims.
At Ashtons Legal, we maintain transparency and focus throughout the entire case. If you’d like to learn about our previous success testimonies, please check out our Medical Negligence Injury News page. Our birth injury compensation claims solicitors are discrete and professional and consistently deliver an outstanding standard of legal representation.
Our Birth Injury Claims Solicitors in Chelmsford can help you with:
- Assessing your birth injury claim and organising funding through a ‘no win, no fee’ agreement
- Putting together a robust birth injury medical negligence claim
- Getting you access to trusted medical experts who can contribute to your claim with fresh assessments, testimonies and advice
- Drafting and submitting your Letter of Claim to the Defendant, asking for specific general and special damages
- If necessary, we’ll firmly represent you in court
- Advice regarding welfare and benefits from our specialist rehabilitation team
Book a free consultation with our Birth Injury Solicitors in Chelmsford
To get in touch with one of our pregnancy negligence lawyers, please call us on 01245 847636, or send an email to enquiries@ashtonslegal.co.uk. Alternatively, fill out the enquiry form on the right-hand side of our contact page.
Please know that we will treat your case with sensitivity and the utmost discretion. The Ashtons medical malpractice lawyers will prioritise your comfort at each stage of the process.
How we can help with medical negligence in Chelmsford
Assessing your birth injury claim
No two cases are the same, and Ashton’s pregnancy negligence lawyers will perform a comprehensive and thorough assessment of your experiences and help you find an appropriate pathway. Your claim could fall into one of the two following categories:
Injuries caused to the baby, including:
- Brain injury at birth
- Cerebral palsy
- Erb’s palsy
- Umbilical cord complications
- Jaundice and untreated jaundice complications (kernicterus)
- Facial palsy
- Missed issues during fetal abnormality scanning
- Group B strep
- IVF mix-ups
- Wrongful/ unlawful birth
- Stillbirth
- Result of teratogenic drugs
- Broken bones
- Birth asphyxia & hypoxia
- Birth trauma
- Brachial plexus injuries
- Epilepsy claims
- Meningitis claims
Or injuries caused to the mother, including:
- Caesarean injuries
- Fissures
- Failing to manage or identify pregnancy complications
- Vaginal tears
- Inappropriate use of Oxytocin
- Episiotomy
- Problems with anaesthetics
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Obstetric cholestasis
- Placental abruption/ placenta previa
Building your birth injury medical negligence case
Our principal practice for case building is thorough, scrupulous, and proven time and time again to produce favourable outcomes. Our team will put together a case, starting with having your medical records analysed in light of your personal account and relevant witness statements.
This account is then analysed and contextualised by our trusted network of highly professional medical practitioners, allowing our birth injury claims lawyers to craft a case full of highly acclaimed experts and reliable advocates.
Submitting the Letter of Claim
The Letter of Claim details the allegations of medical negligence and outlines how it impacted you and your child’s lives. Once the defendant has received it, they have four months to refute the claim or admit their liability.
If the defendant has admitted to negligence, we can begin to work towards a final settlement. In the meantime, an interim payment of damages can be requested to provide for you until your final payout.
However, if the claim is denied, our team will review the grounds for that denial and decide with you whether the case can be pursued. If is the claim has sufficient prospects of success, we will issue litigation proceedings on your behalf.
At this stage, there is still a possibility for settlement out of court, a preferable outcome we will continue pursuing. Nonetheless, our highly skilled experts will represent you effectively if court proves unavoidable.
Mediation process
Our birth injury solicitors negotiate a settlement using alternative dispute resolution methods, such as mediation. Whilst compensation varies quite significantly based on needs and the severity of the case, the average birth injury settlement in the UK is about £50,000, so proactive discussions around the final sum are a vital part of the process.
Bringing your claim does not position you as inherently opposing the healthcare system. Over time, claims help the NHS to self-review and improve, such as the recent NHS review of five years of cerebral palsy claims representing a significant effort to mitigate future harm. Mistakes and faults happen, but how they are made up for is important.
Free Support and Rehabilitation Service
Rehabilitation is often a vital but expensive step in the beginning stages of managing a birth injury. We aim to support you through your rehabilitation journey, regardless of the outcome of your claim.
With our specialist client support and rehabilitation team we can support you to:
- Access medical and therapeutic treatment for your child’s condition
- Ensure a smooth transition from hospital to home (including aids and adaptations)
- Apply for disability and/or welfare benefits
- Access funding to pay for care in your home
- Secure education support and funding for children affected by birth injuries
Court processes
Where court proceedings prove unavoidable, our birth injury solicitors are prepared and highly experienced, ready to represent you robustly. Our range of connections across the nation’s courts will ensure you have the highest possible likelihood of a favourable outcome.
Why choose our birth injury claims solicitors in Chelmsford?
Ashtons is known for its excellent standards of service and client care. We work with total transparency and dedication to get our clients the best possible outcomes, and due to our ‘no win, no fee’ services, plus our free rehabilitation and welfare advice service, we can guarantee that you’ll be left in better standing once you work with us.
Our priorities are accessibility and communication, and at every step, we will ensure that you always understand your position.
Our outstanding client care is recognised by legal commentators the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, and we hold many specialist accreditations, including AvMa, Brain Injury Group, Lexcel and APIL.
For further insight into how we work, please go ahead and check out our Medical Negligence Injury News.
Our birth injury claim fees
‘No win, no fee’ birth injury claims
With our exceptional track record and the connections we are able to forge with our clients, we are gladly able to offer a ‘no win no fee’ service, meaning that unless your case is successful, you will not be asked to contribute towards your legal fees. Furthermore, if your claim is successful, your legal fees will be a mere fraction of the compensatory sum.
Book a free consultation with our Birth Injury Solicitors in Chelmsford
To get in touch with one of our pregnancy negligence lawyers, please call us on 01245 847636, or send an email to enquiries@ashtonslegal.co.uk. Alternatively, fill out the enquiry form on the right-hand side of our contact page.