The financial cost of birth injury compensation

If you are in the unfortunate position of considering whether you need to make a claim for birth injury compensation, it is worth bearing in mind that you are not alone. In fact, negligence and substandard maternity care in the UK are so alarmingly common that nearly £1 billion has been paid out in settling this kind of claim over the past thirteen years.

This birth injury claim figure, while also including smaller sums for relatively minor mishaps, also includes vast multi-million pound sums paid for worst-case scenario examples of maternity service negligence. These are usually paid out where poor maternity or obstetric care has resulted in severe and lasting damage such as the kinds of brain injury associated with cerebral palsy.

The Healthcare Commission figure, precisely £828 million, while accounting for the fees paid out to clinical negligence lawyers, does not even include predictions for the many compensation claims that are still awaiting decision.

Although there are many speculations as to why the situation is so acute, many critics place the blame firmly at perceived shortages of maternity staff in UK hospitals. Others blame the "over medicalisation" of birth, the idea that personalised and natural birth is being undermined by medical processes and hospital targets.

However, no two issues of birth-related negligence are ever the same, so investigation of the facts will always reveal a unique situation, and it is the responsibility of any good medical negligence solicitor to establish the truth in order to mount a successful claim.

Making a claim for birth injury compensation
A claim for birth injury compensation should never be treated lightly. Here at YouClaim, our Solicitors Regulation Authority governed solicitors have the sensitivity and expertise that comes with experience.

Over the years, they have successfully represented the claims of many people who have suffered the pain and distress of obstetric and maternity negligence.

They take a thorough and individual approach to every claim they receive and guarantee every winning claimant 100% of the compensation awarded to them.

We always work in strictest confidence and seek to secure the best possible outcome for every single claimant.

We can be reached over online by filling out an online claim form or having an internet chat.

If you wish to speak with a legal advisor directly, call us on 0800 10 757 95 or fill out a callback request.