How can hiring a birth injury attorney help me and my child?
Stephen J. Phillips: He explains the two kinds of damages in a birth injury case: economic damages such as medicines, therapy and all future medical care, and non-economic damages such as disability, the loss of a normal life, and pain and suffering.
Attorney Stephen J. Phillips · Birth Injury · 1-minute 10-second answer
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In a birth injury case where a child is injured at birth, there are two types of damages that you can recover on behalf of that child. The first is what’s called economic damages, and that’s things like the medicines that the child may need throughout the course of the child’s life, the physical therapy or occupational therapy that the child may need, and also the cost of all future medical care. On the other hand, there’s what’s called non-economic damages, and those are the damages that make us human, who we are. Those are things like disability of the child, the loss of that child’s normal life, and the life that they could or should have had growing up, as well as the pain and suffering of the child. There are a lot of different types of damage and elements of damage, and that’s why it’s very important to contact a personal injury lawyer who has done and has experience in birth injury cases, because they can get quite complex over time.
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