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If your child was harmed due to a birth injury in St. Louis, Missouri, Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers can help. Call (314) 932-1066 to schedule your free consultation with a St. Louis birth injury lawyer and learn more about your legal options during this difficult time.
If your child’s injury resulted from a provider’s negligence, you may be entitled to pursue compensation for the harm your family has faced. An experienced attorney can help explain your options under Missouri law, build a strong claim, and work to hold the responsible parties accountable.
Why Should I Choose Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers for My Birth Injury Case?
Welcoming a new baby should be one of life’s most joyful moments—but when a preventable birth injury occurs, it can leave families feeling overwhelmed and unsure of what to do next. Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers serves families in the St. Louis, MO area who are navigating the legal and emotional challenges that follow.
Here’s what you can expect from us:
- Our legal team brings over 21 years of combined experience to the table, offering knowledgeable and reliable representation.
- Clients can expect a compassionate and personalized approach that reflects the sensitive nature of birth injury cases.
- Each case is carefully investigated to determine how the injury occurred and whether negligence played a role.
- We are committed to holding the responsible parties accountable and seeking the full compensation your child deserves.
We can put our legal skills to use to investigate and prove how your child’s birth injury occurred and to seek fair compensation for your child’s suffering. Contact us today for a free consultation with a compassionate St. Louis personal injury attorney.
What Is a Birth Injury?
A birth injury is a physical or neurological disorder that occurs during labor or delivery. It is distinct from a birth or congenital defect, which typically involves a genetic condition that does not result from a healthcare provider’s actions.
Common Types of Birth Injuries
Birth injuries can take many forms and range in severity from mild to life-altering. Some even cause the newborn’s death. Some of the most common birth injuries include:
- Cerebral palsy: This medical condition affects a person’s movement, coordination, and muscle tone.
- Brachial plexus injuries: Damage to the nerves in the shoulder and arm during childbirth can cause weakness or paralysis.
- Erb’s palsy: This condition arises when a baby’s neck is stretched during delivery to a point that they have lasting nerve damage.
- Shoulder dystocia: This is the medical term for when a baby’s shoulders get stuck in the birth canal.
- Brain hemorrhage: Babies in fetal distress may suffer brain bleeds.
- Diabetic retinopathy: If the mother has diabetes and it’s untreated, the child may suffer permanent vision loss
- Oxygen deprivation: If healthcare providers do not complete an emergency C-section when necessary, the child can be deprived of oxygen, resulting in lasting brain damage.
An experienced attorney can investigate what went wrong and determine if you have legal grounds to file a medical malpractice case.
When Is a Birth Injury Medical Malpractice?
Medical malpractice occurs when a doctor deviates from the standard of care and injures a patient as a result. Some of the ways that birth injuries can occur that might imply medical malpractice include:
- Failing to respond to an emergency citation
- Not monitoring a baby’s vital signs
- Improperly using forceps or vacuum extractors
- Prescribing medication to a mother during pregnancy that could harm the baby or impair development
- Not properly treating the mother for diabetes, infections, or other conditions
- Using too much force in an assisted delivery
Proving medical malpractice typically requires the testimony of a medical expert regarding the applicable medical standard of care and how the healthcare professional deviated from it.
Compensation You Can Recover in a Birth Injury Claim
Through a birth injury claim, you may be entitled to recover both economic and non-economic damages that reflect the full scope of harm you and your child have endured.
Economic damages compensate for the financial costs and measurable losses associated with the injury, and may include:
- Medical bills
- Ongoing medical treatment
- Special therapies and rehabilitation
- Future medical expenses
- Vocational training
- Time missed from work to bring the child to medical treatments
- Reduced earning capacity
- Home modifications
Non-economic damages cover the emotional and psychological impact of the injury, which can be just as significant, such as:
- Physical pain and suffering
- Mental anguish
- Emotional distress
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Loss of companionship
These damages aim to provide meaningful support for both the financial burdens and the emotional toll a birth injury can cause, helping your family move forward with greater stability and care.
Contact Our Birth Injury Lawyers for a Free Consultation
Injuries during childbirth in St. Louis, MO, can leave families reeling—facing sudden challenges, overwhelming medical decisions, and long-term uncertainty about their child’s future. At Eason Car Accident and Personal Injury Lawyers, we understand how deeply these cases affect the lives of parents and children.
If you would like to learn more about your legal rights after your child has suffered a birth injury, call today to discuss your situation with a St. Louis birth injury lawyer during a free and confidential case review.
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Behind every case is a small team that knows the file inside and out. Our attorneys and staff work together so clients get clear communication, careful preparation, and direct access throughout the case.
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Areas of Practice
We represent victims injured in a wide range of accident and injury claims, including
Commercial trucks are usually insured for $1 million or more, and the carriers behind them have lawyers and investigators on the file the day of the crash. Trucking cases need immediate attention to preserve the evidence that wins them, including the driver's logs, the truck's electronic data, maintenance records, and the company's safety history. We handle these cases regularly and know what to look for.
Crashes involving delivery vans, work trucks, rideshare drivers on the clock, and other company vehicles often encompass multiple insurance policies and a fight over who was working for whom at the time. Untangling that is a meaningful part of the case, and it can substantially change what's available to the injured client.
Spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, severe burns, and traumatic amputations require careful calculation of future medical costs and other long-term care needs. We work with life-care planners and medical economists so the full lifetime cost of the injury is on the table, and not just the medical bills that have already come in.
Wrongful death claims are about more than money. Families need answers and accountability as much as they need financial security. We handle these cases with the seriousness they deserve and walk families through the legal and emotional landscape carefully.
Traumatic brain injuries don't always show up clearly on a standard ER scan, and adjusters routinely undervalue them despite the serious health implications. These cases require thorough medical documentation, the right specialists, and expert testimony to be valued correctly.
Pedestrian Accidents
Pedestrian collisions tend to produce severe injuries from impact alone. Liability is often clear, but carriers still push back on damages. We make sure the long-term medical, vocational, and personal impact is fully documented.
Motorcyclists face built-in bias from insurance adjusters who automatically assume the rider was at fault. We've handled enough of these cases to know how that argument gets made and how to push back.
We don't take every car accident case. We take the serious ones, such as those involving significant injuries, disputed liability, or commercial vehicles, as well as aggressive insurance carriers.
Construction injury cases often involve third-party liability, and OSHA issues, which further complicate matters. The investigation has to start quickly before site conditions change and evidence disappears.
Experienced representation for patients harmed by medical errors, misdiagnosis, surgical mistakes, and other forms of healthcare negligence.
Why This Firm Exists
James Eason didn't build this firm to be the biggest. He built it to be the kind of firm an injured person actually needs. We are small enough to stay personally involved, prepared enough to walk into court, and selective enough to take cases seriously. The model most personal injury firms run on is volume: take everything, settle most of it quickly, and then move on to the next injured client. That works for the firm, but it doesn't always work for the client. The lawyers who genuinely prepare every case for trial are the ones who get the best results, because the insurance carriers know the difference. That's our model here.
Steps to Proceed
Our Proven Process
We'll listen to what happened, ask the questions that matter, and tell you honestly whether we think the case is worth pursuing. If we don't, we'll say so.
Investigation
If we take the case, we get to work, investigating the police reports, medical records, and witness statements, preserving the evidence and working with experts as needed.
We build a documented claim and present it to the insurance carrier. Most cases settle here. If yours doesn’t, we keep going.
Litigation Preparation
If the offer isn't fair, we litigate. Because we've prepared the case for trial from the beginning, we're ready when it gets there.
Settlement, mediation, or verdict — we pursue whichever outcome reflects what your case is actually worth.
Professional Recognition
Honors & Professional Organizations
James Eason is a member of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and is on the Board of Governors. He also belongs to the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, National Trial Lawyers, American Association of Justice, and Mound City Bar Association
James has been honored with membership in the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, recognized as one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the United States. Membership is limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts, awards and settlements. The organization was founded in 1993 and there are approximately 3000 members located throughout the country. Fewer than 1% of U.S. lawyers are members. Forum membership acknowledges excellence in advocacy.
Eason Law Firm has also been nominated as a finalist in the St. Louis Magazine A-List for Personal Injury Attorneys.
Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys
Missouri’s leading organization advocating for the rights of injured citizens and holding wrongdoers accountable through the civil justice system.
St. Louis Lawyers Association
One of the oldest and most influential bar associations in St. Louis, fostering legal excellence and community service across the region.
What You Get When You Work With Us
No Fee Unless We Recover
We offer standard contingency representation. You pay nothing upfront and nothing at all unless we recover
Handled by Our Team, Not Handed Off
Your case is managed by our legal team from start to finish. We do not pass clients from office to office or outsource case management.
Trial-ready preparation
Insurance carriers pay more when they believe the lawyer across the table is genuinely prepared to try the case
Honest case evaluation
If the case isn't strong enough to pursue, we'll tell you. If it's worth fighting, we'll explain exactly why.
Available when it matters
Serious injuries don't keep business hours. Neither do we.