Birth Injury Lawyer for Women in Indiana
When your baby is injured during delivery due to medical negligence, you're facing a lifetime of challenges—from caring for a child with special needs to managing your own physical and emotional recovery. You need an attorney who understands what mothers really face and fights for ALL your family's losses.
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"I fight for women to reclaim their strength and get the full compensation they deserve."
— Jill Bracken-Emerson
Birth Injuries We Handle
Many birth injuries are preventable. When medical professionals fail to meet the standard of care during pregnancy, labor, or delivery, the consequences can be devastating for both mother and child.
Injuries to Baby
Cerebral Palsy
Often caused by oxygen deprivation during labor and delivery. When doctors fail to recognize fetal distress or delay emergency C-sections, babies can suffer permanent brain damage.
Erb's Palsy & Brachial Plexus Injuries
Nerve damage from excessive force during delivery, often from improper use of forceps or vacuum extractors. Can cause permanent arm weakness or paralysis.
Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
Brain injury from lack of oxygen and blood flow. Causes developmental delays, seizures, and cognitive impairment. Often preventable with proper monitoring.
Fractures & Bone Injuries
Broken clavicles, skull fractures, and other bone injuries from excessive force or improper delivery techniques.
Facial Nerve Damage
Injury to facial nerves from forceps pressure, causing facial paralysis that may be temporary or permanent.
Injuries to Mother
Severe Perineal Tears
Third and fourth-degree tears that extend into the anal sphincter. Often caused by failure to perform episiotomy when needed or improper repair. Can cause permanent incontinence and pain.
Uterine Rupture
Life-threatening tearing of the uterus, often from excessive Pitocin use or VBAC attempts without proper monitoring. Can cause hemorrhage, hysterectomy, and maternal death.
Hemorrhage & Excessive Bleeding
Failure to recognize and treat postpartum hemorrhage can lead to shock, organ failure, and death. Preventable with proper monitoring and timely intervention.
Pelvic Floor Damage
Severe damage to pelvic floor muscles and nerves causing chronic pain, incontinence, and sexual dysfunction. Often requires multiple corrective surgeries.
Infection & Sepsis
Preventable infections from unsanitary conditions, prolonged rupture of membranes, or retained placenta. Can lead to sepsis, organ failure, and death.
How Medical Negligence Causes Birth Injuries
Failure to Monitor Fetal Distress
Ignoring signs of fetal distress on heart rate monitors. When babies don't get enough oxygen, every minute counts. Delayed response causes brain damage.
Delayed C-Section
Waiting too long to perform emergency cesarean when complications arise. Shoulder dystocia, umbilical cord prolapse, and placental abruption require immediate action.
Improper Use of Delivery Tools
Excessive force with forceps or vacuum extractors causes skull fractures, brain bleeding, and nerve damage. These tools must be used with extreme care.
Medication Errors
Excessive Pitocin causes overly strong contractions that deprive the baby of oxygen. Improper epidural administration can cause maternal complications.
Failure to Diagnose Pregnancy Complications
Missing signs of preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, placenta previa, or infections. Early detection and treatment prevent serious complications.
Inadequate Prenatal Care
Failure to perform necessary tests, monitor high-risk pregnancies, or refer to specialists. Proper prenatal care identifies and manages risks before delivery.
The Unique Challenges Women Face After Birth Injuries
Emotional Trauma & Guilt
Mothers often blame themselves for their baby's injuries, even when it was the doctor's fault. The emotional pain of seeing your child suffer is indescribable. You deserve compassion and support, not judgment.
Lifetime Care Costs
Children with cerebral palsy, brain injuries, or developmental delays require decades of medical care, therapy, and special education. These costs can exceed millions of dollars. You need compensation that covers your child's entire future.
Loss of Career & Income
Caring for an injured child often requires mothers to leave their careers or reduce work hours. Your lost earning capacity is a real economic loss that should be compensated.
Your Own Physical Recovery
If you were injured during childbirth, you're dealing with your own pain, surgeries, and recovery while caring for your baby. Your injuries matter too, and you deserve full compensation.
What Your Birth Injury Claim Is Worth
Birth injury cases often result in some of the highest settlements and verdicts because the harm is permanent and the costs are lifelong.
Economic Damages
- All past and future medical expenses for mother and child
- Lifetime therapy, rehabilitation, and special education
- In-home care and nursing assistance
- Medical equipment, wheelchairs, and assistive devices
- Home and vehicle modifications
- Lost wages and loss of earning capacity for parents
Non-Economic Damages
- Pain and suffering for mother and child
- Emotional distress and trauma
- Loss of quality of life
- Loss of enjoyment of life for the child
- Loss of consortium for parents
- Permanent disability and disfigurement
Real Results for Birth Injury Cases
Case: Family of man who suffered a severe and debilitating brain injury (hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy) because hospital staff failed to manage his insulin-dependent diabetes while he was recovering from surgery.
Result: Expert testimony proved the medical team's negligence directly caused the injury. Secured $1.175 million to cover lifetime medical needs, advanced education, therapy, and equipment.
Case: Client who coded during surgery because a nurse administered the wrong medication to the patient.
Result: Secured compensation for emergency intervention, recovery, and ongoing medical monitoring.
Case: Woman who broke her leg when she slipped and fell on ice in parking lot at apartment complex.
Result: Secured compensation for surgery, hospitalization, physical therapy, and lost wages during recovery.
Case: Woman who broke her wrist when she fell on ice in outside seating area of bar in downtown Carmel.
Result: Secured compensation for fracture treatment, physical therapy, and permanent injury damages.
Birth Injury Case Evaluation
Quick assessment of your birth injury case
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Your Baby Deserves Justice. You Deserve Answers.
Birth injuries change lives forever. When medical negligence causes harm to you or your baby, you deserve accountability and compensation to provide the care your child needs. With over 20 years of experience fighting for women's rights and over $8 million recovered for clients, Jill knows how to win birth injury cases.
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