Syracuse Birth Injury Lawyers

If your child was hurt before, during, or shortly after delivery, you are probably living with two things at once, a frightening medical situation and a set of explanations that never quite add up. A New York birth injury lawyer can tell you whether what happened to your baby was a recognized risk of childbirth or a preventable failure of care, and what a claim would mean for your child’s future. Birth injuries range from nerve damage in one arm to permanent brain injury requiring lifelong support, and a significant share of them are preventable when providers monitor properly and act in time.

Porter Law Group represents families across New York State, from Syracuse and Central New York to Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, and New York City. We obtain the complete labor and delivery record, have it reviewed by obstetric and neonatal specialists, build the life care plan that shows what your child will actually need, and litigate when a hospital’s insurer will not deal with the case honestly. Consultations are free, and we handle birth injury cases on a contingency fee basis, so there is no fee unless we win.

Why Choose Porter Law Group for a New York Birth Injury Claim

Birth injury claims are among the most demanding cases in New York medical malpractice. They require obstetric and neonatal expertise, an economic projection that reaches across a child’s entire life, and familiarity with procedural rules that apply only when the injured person is a minor. Hospitals defend these cases with institutional resources, and they defend them hard, because acknowledging a labor and delivery error affects far more than one file. Porter Law Group has recovered more than $500 million for seriously injured clients since 2009, and we take birth injury cases anywhere in New York State.

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

When a Birth Injury Case Needs a Lawyer

Not every difficult delivery leads to a claim. You should speak with an attorney when any of the following applies:

• Your child has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, a brachial plexus injury, or a seizure disorder, or is missing motor and cognitive milestones.
• The delivery involved fetal distress, a prolonged or stalled labor, an emergency cesarean, or the use of forceps or a vacuum extractor.
• Your baby needed resuscitation at birth, went to the NICU, received therapeutic cooling for brain injury, or was transferred to another hospital.
• The explanation you were given changed over time, or no one has ever explained the injury at all.
• Hospital risk management or a malpractice insurer has contacted you, offered anything, or asked you to sign a document.
• The delivery took place at a public hospital, where a short notice deadline applies and cannot be assumed away.
• Your child was stillborn or died shortly after birth and the cause has never been adequately accounted for.

Statewide Reach With a Syracuse Base

Porter Law Group is headquartered in Syracuse and maintains six offices across New York State. That matters in birth injury work because the case is anchored where the care was given. Records are obtained from a specific hospital’s health information department, the suit is filed in the Supreme Court of the county where the delivery happened, and the physicians and nurses who will be deposed still work in that community. We handle cases in Central and Upstate New York from our Syracuse office and travel regularly to downstate courthouses for deliveries in the five boroughs, Westchester, and Long Island.

How We Handle Birth Injury Cases

We start with the record rather than with an argument. That means the full prenatal chart, the labor and delivery notes, the fetal heart monitoring strips, umbilical cord blood gas results, the resuscitation record, operative reports, NICU charts, and every imaging study. Those materials go to qualified physicians for independent review before anything is filed, and where the review supports a claim we bring in a life care planner and an economist to document what your child’s future actually costs. You work directly with the attorney handling your case. Read our client testimonials, review our case results, and meet the team on the Attorneys and Staff page.

Meet Some of Our Attorneys

Michael S. Porter

Founder, Managing Partner

Eric C. Nordby

Co-Founder, Partner

Mary E. Langan

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How New York Birth Injury Law Works

A birth injury claim in New York is a medical malpractice claim, governed by the same rules that apply to any case against a physician or hospital and subject to the deadline in CPLR 214-a. Proving one requires two separate things, and families are often surprised that the second is harder than the first. Our page on birth injury medical malpractice in New York covers the framework, and our parents’ guide to birth injuries and medical malpractice is a good starting point if this is all new to you.

Departure From the Standard of Care

The first element is a departure from accepted practice. The standard of care is what a reasonably prudent obstetrician, nurse, midwife, anesthesiologist, or neonatologist would have done in the same circumstances, and it is established through the testimony of physicians in the same field, professional practice guidelines, and the hospital’s own written protocols. Those protocols matter more than most families expect. A labor and delivery unit that has a written policy on how quickly a cesarean must be underway after a non-reassuring tracing has effectively defined the standard it will be measured against.

Causation and the Timing Question

The second element is causation, and in serious birth injury cases it is where the fight happens. The defense in almost every brain injury case is that the harm occurred before labor ever began, and was caused by genetics, an infection, a prenatal stroke, or prematurity rather than by anything that happened in the delivery room. That argument is answered with objective evidence, not with sympathy. Cord blood gas values, placental pathology, the pattern of injury on early MRI, Apgar scores, the newborn’s neurological examination in the first hours, and the fetal monitoring strip together establish when the injury happened. Our pages on fetal distress and malpractice and birth asphyxia claims explain what that evidence shows and why it is preserved or lost early.

The Certificate of Merit Requirement

New York does not allow a medical malpractice case to be filed on suspicion alone. Under CPLR 3012-a, the attorney filing the complaint must certify that they consulted a licensed physician and concluded there is a reasonable basis for the action. In practice this means a qualified doctor reviews your child’s chart before a lawsuit exists, and it is one reason a consultation costs you nothing but takes real work behind the scenes. It also means the records have to be gathered early, because nothing can be filed until a physician has read them.

A Difficult Birth Is Not Automatically Malpractice

Some children are injured despite careful, competent care. Obstetrics involves genuine emergencies that develop in minutes, and a bad outcome by itself does not establish that anyone did anything wrong. The question is narrower, whether the care given fell below what was accepted practice and whether that failure caused the harm. An honest answer to that question is what a records review produces, and a firm that tells you it has a case before reading the chart is not telling you anything useful. Our overview of when a surgical or medical error supports a lawsuit covers the same distinction in other settings.

Types of Birth Injuries We Handle

Birth injuries fall into recognizable patterns, and the pattern usually points toward what went wrong. Our guide to the types of birth injuries covers the full range, and we maintain a separate page for other birth injuries that fall outside the categories below. If your child’s diagnosis is not listed here, that changes nothing about your right to have the case reviewed.

Oxygen Deprivation and Brain Injuries

Most catastrophic birth injuries involve an interruption in the baby’s oxygen supply, either gradually across a long labor or abruptly during a delivery emergency. The brain tolerates very little of it, and the resulting damage is permanent.

• Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, or HIE, the brain injury caused by oxygen and blood flow deprivation around the time of birth, and the diagnosis behind many cerebral palsy claims.
• Cerebral palsy, a permanent disorder of movement and posture. The CDC estimates that cerebral palsy affects about 1 in 345 children in the United States, and CDC data indicates that 85 to 90 percent of cases are congenital, meaning the brain injury occurred before or during birth. Most cerebral palsy is not caused by events in the delivery room, and the peer reviewed literature attributes roughly ten percent of cases in term and near term infants to oxygen deprivation during labor. Whether a particular case belongs in that group is a question the delivery records answer.
• Oxygen deprivation at birth and birth asphyxia, the underlying mechanisms in most delivery room brain injury cases.
• Newborn brain damage and newborn brain swelling, which can follow trauma, oxygen loss, or a delayed response to distress.
• Periventricular leukomalacia, white matter injury seen most often in premature infants.
• Kernicterus, brain damage from severe untreated newborn jaundice, and one of the most preventable injuries in the category.
• Meconium aspiration, where a distressed baby inhales meconium-stained fluid and the airway is not cleared and supported properly.
• Umbilical cord prolapse and cord compression, an obstetric emergency that requires immediate delivery.

Nerve Damage and Physical Trauma

Other injuries come from force applied to the baby during delivery, whether by traction, by instruments, or by attempting a vaginal delivery that should have become a cesarean.

• Brachial plexus injuries, damage to the nerve network controlling the shoulder, arm, and hand.
• Erb’s palsy and Klumpke palsy, the upper and lower forms of brachial plexus injury, which can leave lasting weakness even after surgery and therapy.
• Shoulder dystocia, where the baby’s shoulder lodges behind the mother’s pubic bone and the maneuvers used to free it determine whether a child is injured.
• Forceps injuries and injuries from vacuum-assisted delivery, including skull fractures, scalp bleeding, facial nerve palsy, and intracranial hemorrhage.
• Cephalohematoma, bleeding beneath the covering of the skull, which can lead to jaundice and anemia when it is not monitored.
• Spinal cord birth injuries, uncommon but devastating, usually associated with excessive traction or rotation.

Harm to the Mother and Loss of a Pregnancy

Negligent obstetric care injures mothers as well as babies. Cesarean section injuries include surgical damage to the bladder, bowel, or ureters, retained surgical material, uncontrolled hemorrhage, and infections that go unrecognized after discharge. Epidural and anesthesia injuries can cause nerve damage, spinal headaches, hematoma, or lasting pain, and they raise questions about consent, technique, and monitoring during the block.

Where a pregnancy is lost, families deserve answers even when the case is difficult. We handle claims involving stillbirth and miscarriage, including failures to monitor a high-risk pregnancy, missed warning signs of placental abruption or preeclampsia, and delayed responses to reported decreases in fetal movement. We also represent families in child injury cases that arise after the newborn period.

How Birth Injuries Happen in New York Delivery Rooms

The errors behind preventable birth injuries are not exotic. They repeat, across hospitals of every size, in a handful of well-documented patterns. Understanding which one fits your delivery tells you what evidence the case needs.

Monitoring and Response Failures

Continuous electronic fetal monitoring exists so that a care team can recognize a baby in trouble and act. The failures we see are a nurse who does not escalate a worsening tracing, a physician who is not physically present to evaluate it, a category of tracing that is documented but not treated, and a decision to continue a labor that should have ended in an operating room. Delay is the common thread. Where a cesarean should have been underway within minutes and instead took an hour, the timeline in the chart usually tells the story more clearly than any witness will. Our page on fetal distress claims covers what the strips show and how they are read.

Medication and Labor Induction Errors

Labor is frequently induced or augmented, and the medications used to do it are powerful. Excessive or mistimed dosing can produce contractions that come too often and last too long, which reduces the blood flow the baby receives between them. In a mother with a prior cesarean it also raises the risk of uterine rupture. The safeguard is a protocol that requires the dose to be reduced or stopped when the monitoring pattern deteriorates, and the claim arises when that safeguard is ignored. Our page on Pitocin side effects and birth injury claims explains how these cases are documented.

Delivery Technique and Instrument Errors

When a delivery stalls, the choices are to continue, to use an instrument, or to move to a cesarean. Each carries risk, and each has recognized limits. Vacuum extraction has accepted limits on the number of pop-offs and the duration of attempts. Forceps require correct placement and a delivery that is genuinely achievable. Shoulder dystocia has a defined sequence of maneuvers, and pulling harder on the baby’s head is not part of it. Injuries in this category tend to be visible immediately, which makes the delivery note, the nursing note, and the timing of the pediatric examination the central documents in the file.

Newborn and NICU Care Failures

Some children are delivered without incident and injured afterward. Severe jaundice that is not measured and treated can progress to permanent brain damage. Low blood sugar in a newborn, untreated infection, delayed or inadequate resuscitation, medication errors in the nursery, and failure to identify a baby who qualifies for therapeutic cooling within the narrow window when it helps all produce lasting harm. These claims turn on nursing documentation, laboratory timestamps, and the record of who was called and when.

Who Can Be Held Responsible for a Birth Injury

Families often assume the claim is against one doctor. It rarely is. Labor and delivery is a team, and responsibility usually attaches to several people and to the institution behind them. Our page on who can be held liable for birth injuries covers this in more depth, and the short version is below.

The obstetrician who managed the labor, the midwife who provided care, the labor and delivery nurses who monitored the tracing and were responsible for escalating concerns, the anesthesiologist who placed the epidural or provided care during an emergency cesarean, the resident or attending who performed the delivery, the pediatrician or neonatologist who evaluated the baby, and the radiologist who read the imaging can each bear responsibility for their own conduct.

The hospital is a defendant in most cases, for two distinct reasons. It is generally responsible for the conduct of its employees, which includes nurses, residents, and employed physicians. It also bears its own institutional responsibility for staffing a unit adequately, maintaining and enforcing protocols, credentialing the physicians it permits to practice there, and keeping equipment functional. Where a private attending physician is not a hospital employee, the analysis is more complicated, and it is one of the first things we determine from the records rather than assume.

What to Do If You Suspect a Birth Injury

The steps below protect both your child’s care and any claim, and none of them require you to have decided anything yet.

Request the Complete Medical Record

Under New York Public Health Law 18, you are entitled to your own and your child’s medical records on written request. The statute gives a provider ten days to make records available for inspection, and copies must be provided within a reasonable time. Ask for everything, not a summary. That means the prenatal chart, the full labor and delivery record, the fetal heart monitoring strips in their original form, cord blood gas results, operative and anesthesia reports, nursing notes, the resuscitation record, NICU charts, discharge summaries, and all imaging. Our guide on obtaining medical records in New York walks through the request process.

Keep a Written Record of Your Child’s Development

Birth injuries frequently reveal themselves gradually, as a child misses motor or cognitive milestones over the first two years. Keep a dated log of every evaluation, therapy session, specialist visit, new diagnosis, and delay you notice, and save the early intervention paperwork. Photographs and short videos of your child at different ages are more persuasive than a description written later, and they document a course of development that no medical record captures in the same way.

Do Not Sign Anything From the Hospital or Its Insurer

Hospital risk management departments and malpractice insurers sometimes approach families early, occasionally with an offer to waive a bill or an apology accompanied by paperwork. Any release or agreement signed before an independent medical and legal review can permanently limit what your child is able to recover. Decline politely, take the documents, and have them reviewed. The same applies to recorded statements and to requests that you sign broad authorizations allowing the hospital’s lawyers to collect records on their own.

Act Immediately if the Delivery Was at a Public Hospital

Deliveries at municipal, county, and state-operated hospitals are subject to a formal notice requirement that runs in days rather than years, and it is not extended simply because the injured person is a baby. If your child was born at a public facility anywhere in New York, this is the single most time-sensitive item on the list and it should be handled first.

Evidence That Strengthens a Birth Injury Claim

Bring whatever you have to your consultation, even if it is incomplete. We obtain the rest.

The delivery record

• Fetal heart monitoring strips, along with the nursing notes describing what the team saw and did.
• Umbilical cord blood gas values, Apgar scores, and the newborn resuscitation record.
• Operative and anesthesia reports, including the timing of any decision to proceed to cesarean.
• Placental pathology, if the placenta was sent for examination.

Your child’s course after birth

• NICU records, cooling protocol documentation, seizure records, and neurology consultations.
• All imaging, particularly head ultrasound and MRI performed in the first days and weeks.
• Developmental evaluations, early intervention plans, school assessments, and therapy notes.
• Every bill, explanation of benefits, and record of out-of-pocket cost.

Your own account and the household impact

• Names of the physicians, midwives, and nurses involved, and anything you were told at the time.
• Text messages, emails, patient portal messages, and any written communication with the practice or hospital.
• A dated journal of your child’s care needs, therapy schedule, equipment, and daily routine.
• Proof of lost income, reduced hours, or a parent who left work to provide care.

Damages Available in a New York Birth Injury Case

What a birth injury claim is worth depends entirely on the facts, and no lawyer can responsibly quote a figure before the medical evidence has been reviewed. What can be described is which categories of loss New York allows and what proof each requires. New York places no statutory cap on damages in medical malpractice cases, and the losses in a birth injury claim are measured across the child’s full life expectancy rather than across a few years of treatment. Our page on what damages you can recover in a birth injury lawsuit goes through each category.

Economic Damages

Future medical care accounts for most of the economic loss in a serious birth injury case. A life care planner projects the cost of surgeries, ongoing physical, occupational, and speech therapy, medications, durable medical equipment and its replacement over decades, home and vehicle modifications, assistive technology, and attendant or custodial care. Educational needs are projected the same way, including specialized instruction and services a public program does not cover. Economic damages also include lost future earning capacity, which is projected from vocational and demographic data and adjusted for the specific limitations the injury imposes, and the out-of-pocket costs the family has already absorbed.

Non-Economic Damages

Non-economic damages compensate the human consequences, which in a birth injury case means a lifetime of them. Juries consider physical pain, the permanence of the disability, the medical procedures a child will undergo, and the ordinary experiences of childhood and adult life the injury took away, including independence, mobility, communication, and the ability to form the relationships other people take for granted. Because these damages are proven through testimony, treatment records, and the day-to-day picture of your child’s life, the journal and the videos described above do far more work than they appear to.

The Parents’ Own Claim

Parents have a separate claim of their own, for the medical expenses they are obligated to pay on the child’s behalf and for the loss of the child’s services and companionship. It is a distinct cause of action with a distinct deadline, and that deadline runs on the parents’ own timetable rather than the child’s. This is the trap that catches families every year, because the child’s claim can still be timely long after the parents’ claim has expired.

How Long You Have to File a Birth Injury Claim in New York

Birth injury deadlines in New York are shorter and considerably more complicated than most parents expect, and more than one clock can be running at the same time. The general rule under CPLR 214-a is that a medical malpractice action must be brought within two years and six months of the act or omission complained of. CPLR 208 then tolls that period while the injured person is a minor, but the toll is not unlimited, and a medical malpractice action cannot be brought more than ten years after the act or omission. For a birth injury, that generally means the case has to be started well before your child grows up. Our detailed guide to birth injury claim deadlines in New York works through the scenarios.

• Private hospitals and private physicians. The two year and six month medical malpractice period applies, tolled during the child’s minority under CPLR 208 and subject to the outer limit described above. The clock runs from the malpractice, not from the date of diagnosis.
• City and county hospitals. Claims against a municipal or county hospital require a formal notice of claim served within ninety days of the injury under General Municipal Law 50-e, with suit generally required within one year and ninety days. The infancy toll does not extend the ninety day notice period itself, but the statute directs courts to consider a claimant’s infancy when deciding whether to allow late notice, and parents of injured children are often granted that relief. A missed ninety day deadline is a reason to call immediately rather than to assume the case is over.
• State-operated hospitals. Claims involving a state-run facility, including the SUNY teaching hospitals, are brought in the Court of Claims on a different schedule. The claim, or a notice of intention to file it, must be served on the Attorney General within ninety days of accrual, and where a notice of intention is served first the claim itself is generally due within two years. Where the injured person is under a legal disability, the Court of Claims Act allows the claim to be presented within two years after that disability is removed.
• Death of a child born alive. Where a child is born alive and later dies, the estate’s wrongful death claim is governed by EPTL 5-4.1 and must generally be brought within two years of the death, separate from any claim for the child’s own conscious pain and suffering.
• Pregnancy lost before birth. New York treats a stillbirth differently. There is no wrongful death claim on behalf of a child who was never born alive. The mother’s own claim for the harm she suffered is the recognized path, and it runs on the medical malpractice schedule rather than the wrongful death schedule. If you lost a pregnancy in circumstances that were never explained to you, the deadline that applies to your situation is worth confirming early.
• The parents’ derivative claim. The parents’ claim for medical expenses and loss of services follows the parents’ own medical malpractice period and is not extended by the child’s infancy.
• The practical deadline. Monitoring strips, fetal monitoring archives, staffing records, and the memories of the nurses who were in the room all degrade long before any legal deadline arrives. The legal deadline is rarely the one that decides a case.

How a Birth Injury Case Is Handled for a Child

New York treats a lawsuit brought on behalf of a minor as a distinct procedural category, with safeguards built in to protect the child from everyone, including the adults acting on their behalf.

A minor cannot sue in their own name. Under CPLR 1201, the action is brought by a parent with legal custody, by the guardian of the child’s property, or by a guardian ad litem appointed by the court under CPLR 1202. The parent directs the litigation, but the recovery belongs to the child.

Every settlement of a minor’s claim requires court approval. Under CPLR 1207 and CPLR 1208, an agreement to settle is not enforceable unless a judge approves it at what is commonly called an infant compromise hearing, and counsel must submit detailed papers describing the injury, the treatment, the life care plan, any outstanding medical liens, and the reasons the proposed settlement is fair to the child.

Net proceeds do not go into a parent’s bank account. They are typically directed into a structured settlement annuity designed to fund care across the child’s lifetime, or into a court-supervised account held for the child’s benefit, with withdrawals before adulthood permitted only by court order on a showing of need. For a severely injured child, how those funds are structured matters nearly as much as the amount, because the wrong structure can disrupt eligibility for public benefits the family depends on.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does a New York birth injury lawyer cost?

Porter Law Group handles birth injury cases on a contingency fee basis. You pay nothing upfront and nothing unless we win your case, and the initial consultation is always free. Having a lawyer review what happened during your delivery before you decide anything costs you nothing.

How do I know if my child’s birth injury was caused by malpractice?

You generally cannot know from the outside, which is why the records review exists. Determining whether a birth injury was preventable requires a qualified obstetrician, maternal-fetal medicine specialist, or neonatologist to examine the labor and delivery chart, the fetal heart tracings, umbilical cord blood gases, and the early imaging. Under CPLR 3012-a, the attorney filing a New York medical malpractice case must certify that a licensed physician was consulted and that there is a reasonable basis for the action, so no case proceeds without that review. Common indicators include a delayed response to a non-reassuring fetal heart pattern, a cesarean that should have happened sooner, mismanaged shoulder dystocia, and improper use of forceps or a vacuum extractor.

How long do I have to sue for a birth injury in New York?

New York’s medical malpractice period under CPLR 214-a is two years and six months from the act or omission. CPLR 208 tolls that period while the injured child is a minor, but a medical malpractice action cannot be brought more than ten years after the act or omission, so birth injury claims have to be started well before a child reaches adulthood. Claims involving public hospitals are far more urgent, because a notice of claim is generally required within ninety days under General Municipal Law 50-e and the infancy toll does not extend that notice period. The parents’ own claim for medical expenses and loss of services runs on the parents’ timetable and is not tolled by the child’s infancy.

What if my child’s birth injury was not diagnosed until years later?

Delayed recognition is normal in this area. Cerebral palsy, HIE, and periventricular leukomalacia often become apparent only when a child misses milestones at twelve, eighteen, or twenty-four months. New York does not apply a general discovery rule to medical malpractice claims, so the clock runs from the date of the negligent care rather than from the date you learned of it. The infancy toll under CPLR 208 is what preserves most of these claims, subject to the ten year outer limit, which is why a late diagnosis is a reason to call promptly rather than a reason to assume it is too late.

What happens if my child was born at a public hospital in New York?

Public hospitals, including municipal facilities, county-operated medical centers, and state hospitals, are protected by a notice requirement that private hospitals are not. Under General Municipal Law 50-e, a notice of claim must generally be served within ninety days of the injury, with the lawsuit filed within one year and ninety days. The infancy toll does not extend that ninety day notice deadline, which is a strict condition of bringing the case. Late notice is possible only by court order and is never guaranteed. If your delivery was at a public facility, contact a lawyer immediately rather than after your child’s next evaluation.

Can I still sue if I signed consent forms before the delivery?

Yes. Consent forms signed before labor and delivery do not release a hospital or physician from responsibility for negligent care. Under Public Health Law 2805-d, informed consent concerns the risks of a properly performed procedure. It does not authorize a provider to depart from accepted practice. A mother who consents to a vaginal delivery does not consent to mismanaged shoulder dystocia or to a delayed response to fetal distress, and general admission paperwork signed at check-in is equally ineffective as a waiver.

Is every difficult birth or bad outcome medical malpractice?

No. Some children are injured despite appropriate, attentive care, and childbirth carries genuine risks that no provider can eliminate. A claim requires two things, a departure from accepted practice and proof that the departure caused the harm. That is exactly what an independent physician review determines. If the records show the care met the standard, we tell you so, and you are not out anything for having asked.

How long does a birth injury case take in New York?

Longer than most injury claims, commonly two to four years from filing to resolution, and sometimes longer where a child’s condition is still evolving and the life care plan cannot yet be finalized. The timeline includes record collection, expert review, filing the complaint with the certificate of merit, depositions of the physicians and nurses involved, independent medical examinations, the infant compromise hearing, and either settlement or trial. We prepare every birth injury case as though it will be tried, which tends to shorten the process rather than lengthen it once discovery is complete.

Where We Serve Birth Injury Clients in New York

Porter Law Group is based in Syracuse and represents families throughout Onondaga County and Central New York, including Liverpool, Cicero, DeWitt, Camillus, Manlius, North Syracuse, Baldwinsville, Fayetteville, and Skaneateles, along with Auburn, Cortland, Oswego, Rome, and the hospitals that serve the region. We handle deliveries that took place anywhere in the state.

We maintain offices across New York State and take birth injury cases statewide. See our local pages for Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Saratoga Springs, New York City, Manhattan, Yonkers, White Plains, Long Island, Utica, Binghamton, and Ithaca, browse all of our New York offices, or read the latest updates on the Porter Law Group blog.

Contact a New York Birth Injury Lawyer

If your child was injured during labor or delivery anywhere in New York, the earlier someone starts assembling the record, the better your position will be. Monitoring strips can be requested before they are archived, nurses can be identified while they still remember the shift, imaging can be reviewed while the findings are current, and the deadlines that run in days rather than years can still be met. A hospital’s insurer begins evaluating a bad outcome long before a family ever calls a lawyer, and there is no reason to start later than they do.

Our Syracuse office is at 100 Madison Street, Suite 1500, Syracuse, NY 13202. If you cannot come to us, we will come to you, at your home or at the hospital where your child is being treated. We also meet families at our Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Saratoga Springs, and New York City offices.

Call 833-PORTER9 or email info@porterlawteam.com for a free, no-obligation consultation. We handle birth injury cases on a contingency fee basis, so you pay nothing unless we win.

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