A successful birth injury compensation claim for a brachial plexus injury

In March 2007 YouClaim, the birth injury compensation specialists, received a phone call from a 36-year-old mother from Essex whose daughter sustained a brachial plexus injury during birth. Despite surgery to correct the birth injury, her daughter was left with permanent damage and with our help she secured a sum to help with her daughter's future.

The 36-year-old told us that after being in labour for more than 12 hours the delivery became rather difficult and an obstetrician decided to use forceps to help things along. However, as the baby emerged and forceps were used to pull her out her shoulders were squashed, causing a brachial plexus injury.

The serious personal injury did not become apparent for two months but as soon as a specialist diagnosed a neuroma the cause was pinpointed to a birth injury. The specialist went on to explain to the perplexed mother that a neuroma is a type of brachial plexus injury where, after the shoulder has been squashed, the nerves try to heal themselves and scar tissue grows around the injury. She was also told that because this scar tissue pressurises the injured nerve signals cannot be conducted properly to the muscles.

He warned that her little girl may be paralysed in one or more of her muscles and may either lose complete feeling and muscle control in one arm or be able to move her arms but end up with little control over her wrist or hand.

Distraught by the news, the mother asked what the prognosis was for her daughter. The specialist replied that if she didn't recover from the brachial plexus injury by 5 months, which was unlikely, that she would need nerve surgery. In the mean time, she was shown motion exercises that she could do at home with her daughter to try and help keep her joints and muscles flexible.

The baby girl did undergo nerve surgery but sustained some permanent damage which doctors said was likely to leave her with neck and shoulder pain and weakness of grip for the rest of her life. Based on this, her mother sought our help and, under the representation of an expert personal injury solicitor from our panel, acted as her daughter's litigation friend. She was awarded a sum of £28,000, some of which was used towards her daughter's medical treatment and her lost earnings so far and the rest of which was put into a savings account.

Would you like to claim birth injury compensation?
Have you or someone close to you been injured in a birth accident? You could be in a position to claim birth injury compensation through us today.

We have helped thousands of people to successfully claim the compensation that they deserve and we could help you too to claim for pain, suffering, distress, lost earnings and medical expenses.

Once we have assessed your claim, we will appoint you the most suitable personal injury solicitor and he or she will talk you through each stage of the claims process in plain English, without using complicated legal jargon.

YouClaim are here to not only help make pursuing birth injury compensation totally hassle-free but also completely cost-free. As well as working on a no win, no fee basis we won't charge you a penny at any time and guarantee that you will receive 100% compensation when you win.

All you have to do to find out more about what we can do for you is either chat to our expert claims advisors on e-chat, leave us a call back request and we will get back to you whenever you say or give us a call on 0800 10 757 95.