{"id":391,"date":"2015-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/how-can-malpractice-be-determined-in-birth-injury-cases\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:30:16","slug":"how-can-malpractice-be-determined-in-birth-injury-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/how-can-malpractice-be-determined-in-birth-injury-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"How can malpractice be determined in birth injury cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a parent, few things in life are as traumatic as learning that your new baby may be subject to severe or permanent damage due to a birth injury. Conditions such as cerebral palsy and Erb\u2019s palsy can have life altering consequences and it is natural to want to hold the hospital and physicians liable for your new baby\u2019s life sentence.<\/p>\n<p>However, in holding people responsible, there must be a determination as to whether the condition is due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/birth-injuries.html\">malpractice<\/a> (which would lead to a birth injury) or a genetic or physical malady, which would suggest a birth defect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Such a key question requires the investigation and opinion of a qualified medical expert. Essentially, the physician must be able to testify to how the condition may have been caused and must clearly show how the lack of reasonable care employed by the physicians who may be responsible for harming the child.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/how-can-malpractice-be-determined-in-birth-injury-cases\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading How can malpractice be determined in birth injury cases\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a parent, few things in life are as traumatic as learning that your new baby may be subject to severe or permanent damage due to a birth injury. Conditions such as cerebral palsy and Erb\u2019s palsy can have life altering consequences and it is natural to want to hold the hospital and physicians liable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injuries","tag-birth-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How can malpractice be determined in birth injury cases &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; February 18, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How can malpractice be determined in birth injury cases - Birth Injuries - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/how-can-malpractice-be-determined-in-birth-injury-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"How can malpractice be determined in birth injury cases &#8212; 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