Approximately 100,000 people die each year as a result of medical malpractice and many more suffer devastating injuries. Whether you’ve been the victim of improperly performed surgery, the failure to diagnose a disease, wrongly prescribed or dispense medications, a botched delivery or any other malpractice, Segal & Lax in conjunction with our nurse and physician consultants can make sure you have the medical and legal firepower to make the doctors and hospitals pay for their mistakes. When powerful physicians make mistakes they will to everything in their power to avoid responsibility; when you’ve been their victim you need Segal & Lax fighting for you.

Birth Injuries

Injuries to a newborn child are devastating physically and emotionally to everyone involved and far too many birth defects are the result of medical malpractice and entirely preventable. Cerebral and Erb’s Palsy are two of the most common and tragic results of malpractice during delivery and each has horrific effects that last an entire lifetime. If you have child with severe complications from birth, you need both the best medical and the best legal advice. In cooperation with leading medical experts, Segal & Lax can determine if you’ve been the victim of an improper delivery. When the consequences of a doctor’s error is brain damage and a lifetime of suffering, you want Segal & Lax on your side. Most children begin to exhibit symptoms of Cerebral Palsy before they are 3 years old. Erbs Palsy—(brachial plexus palsy) is a form of paralysis that affects the arm, shoulder and hand. This occurs during delivery when the nerves that connect a baby’s arm, shoulder and hand to the spinal cord are damaged. The baby’s shoulder may become caught on the mother’s pelvic bone during delivery. Contact Segal & Lax for a free consultation.

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