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Did medical malpractice cause your child’s cerebral palsy?

Do You Have a Case?

If you think it’s possible that malpractice caused your child’s cerebral palsy, we can help.

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Did Medical Malpractice Cause Your Child’s Cerebral Palsy?

The Cerebral Palsy Family Lawyers at Janet, Janet & Suggs, LLC have helped over 30,000 families nationwide. We call upon our legal and medical expertise to uncover the truth and recover compensation families deserve.

Many things can go wrong during the labor and birth of a child. Your baby could have sustained a birth injury if he/she:

Needed to be resuscitated
Had an abnormal head ultrasound, CT-scan, or MRI after birth
Developed seizures during the first few days of life, or
Required an extended hospital stay after birth

What’s at Stake?

Often, tens of millions of dollars are at stake. The cost of future care for your child may alone reach tens of millions of dollars. Your child’s lost future earnings may run into millions of dollars. Compensation is also available for your child’s physical pain, mental anguish and the disabilities your child will have to live with for a lifetime. However, these cases are not simply about the amount of money recovered. They are more about ensuring the best quality of life for your child and your entire family’s peace of mind.

Why Families Turn to the JJS Justice CP Family Lawyers

We’ve recovered over $3 Billion for families who have entrusted us with their future.
We’ve won record-breaking CP jury verdicts.
We’ve negotiated record-breaking CP settlements.
We have extraordinary in-house medical experts, including a board certified OBGYN and a labor and delivery nurse, who uncover medical errors that other law firms miss.
We offer a free, no-obligation case evaluation and are entitled to a fee only if we recover compensation for your family.
We treat families like yours with compassion and respect.

Don’t Wait to Get Help

Each state imposes a deadline, known as a Statute of Limitations, for filing a lawsuit. If you miss the deadline, you can expect to lose the best opportunity to find out the truth about your child’s CP and to recover the compensation your family deserves. Contact our cerebral palsy attorneys today.

Meet Some of the Families We’ve Helped

Jordan and his family–A breakdown in communication between doctors resulted in their failure to carry out the plan they devised to ensure a safe delivery.

Lizzy, and her parents, Lisa and Damon–The hospital put their medical records under lock and key.

Nathan, and his mother, Deborah–The hospital and doctors made over 11 mistakes, but it took CP Family Lawyers to uncover them.

Tiara, and her parents, Donna and Mike–They wondered if delays in performing a C-section caused Tiara’s CP.

CP Family Lawyers–An Experienced Legal/Medical Team

Our team leaders have earned the highest ratings available from such peer review organizations as Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers® and Martindale-Hubbell.

Giles Manley is a preeminent medical malpractice lawyer who is also a board certified OBGYN. Dr. Manley has delivered over 2,000 babies and uses his wealth of medical knowledge to uncover medical errors that were missed by others (keep in mind most CP cases involve errors committed at or around the time of birth).

Dov Apfel is widely recognized as the world’s most knowledgeable birth injury lawyer. His articles on how to prove that medical negligence caused a child’s CP are relied on by other birth injury lawyers. They often consult him for help in their birth injury and other CP cases.

Howard Janet has won multiple record-breaking jury verdicts in birth injury and other CP cases. Mr. Janet has the courage to take the fight to the courtroom if a settlement offer is inadequate. He puts great pressure on medical malpractice insurance companies to pay what cases are really worth. That has translated into record-setting settlements to go along with his unprecedented verdicts.

Kenneth Suggs is one of the country’s most experienced and talented CP lawyers. Over his 40-year career, Mr. Suggs has taken on tough CP cases and has broken records in the process. He is so highly respected nationally that he was elected president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (now known as the American Association of Justice).

Featured Verdicts and Settlements

The following represent just a few of the victories we’ve achieved for CP families.

Verdicts

$33.5 Million–Delayed C-section
A jury awarded this record-breaking verdict after finding that delays in performing an urgently needed cesarean section resulted in a baby developing severe brain damage and cerebral palsy.
$24.25 Million Failure to Diagnose
A record-breaking medical malpractice jury verdict, obtained for a child who suffered brain damage and cerebral palsy because her doctors failed to properly diagnose and respond to an airway obstruction.
$18.1 Million Mismanaged Labor and Delivery
Verdict obtained on behalf of a child who developed spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy after the mother was taken off of continuous electronic fetal monitoring and placed on intermittent monitoring despite known risk factors.
$15.5 Million Delayed Delivery
An OBGYN’s failure to come to the hospital to assess and deliver a baby caused brain damage and cerebral palsy, resulting in a record-breaking verdict.
$13.5 Million Fetal Monitoring Errors
This record jury verdict was obtained for a child’s cerebral palsy that resulted from the failure to properly interpret and respond to signs of distress that appeared on electronic fetal monitoring tracings.

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Settlements

$18 Million Medication Error
A settlement obtained in a case against a pharmacy that negligently dispensed incorrect medication to a pregnant mother, resulting in her child developing a neural tube defect, resulting in paraplegia and other significant injuries.
$17.5 Million Mismanaged Delivery
Settlement obtained on behalf of a child who suffered brain damage and developed cerebral palsy as a result of mismanagement of labor and delivery.
$14 Million Mismanaged Labor and Delivery
A settlement obtained on behalf of a family whose child developed hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and cerebral palsy as a result of mismanaged labor and delivery.
$13 Million Poor Post-Operative Care
A settlement received in a case against a U.S. government-employed healthcare provider whose poor post-operative care resulted in brain damage and cerebral palsy.
$11.5 Million Delayed Resuscitation
Settlement obtained on behalf of a family whose child suffered acute hypoxic ischemic brain injury as a result of delayed resuscitation at a U.S. Naval Hospital.

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The Cerebral Palsy Family Network

The Cerebral Palsy Family Network (CPFN) is an online organization that JJS helped found and funds in order to benefit families whose children have CP, whatever the cause. CPFN identifies resources for families, helps families share their knowledge and experiences, and has awarded numerous research grants. The CPFN Facebook community includes well over 100,000 members. To learn more about CPFN and what it has to offer, including various educational TV programs, visit CPFN.

Uncovering the Truth for Families
for 40 Years

Do You Have a Case?

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Did Medical Malpractice Cause Your Child’s Cerebral Palsy?

What’s at Stake?

Why Families Turn to the JJS Justice CP Family Lawyers

Don’t Wait to Get Help

Meet Some of the Families We’ve Helped

CP Family Lawyers–An Experienced Legal/Medical Team

Featured Verdicts and Settlements

Verdicts

Settlements

The Cerebral Palsy Family Network

Cases Featured By:

Trusted and Honored By:

Do you need CP help?

Uncovering the Truth for Families for 40 Years

Do You Have a Case?

Landing Form

Did Medical Malpractice Cause Your Child’s Cerebral Palsy?

What’s at Stake?

Why Families Turn to the JJS Justice CP Family Lawyers

Don’t Wait to Get Help

Meet Some of the Families We’ve Helped

CP Family Lawyers–An Experienced Legal/Medical Team

Featured Verdicts and Settlements

Verdicts

Settlements

The Cerebral Palsy Family Network

Cases Featured By:

Trusted and Honored By:

Do you need CP help?

Uncovering the Truth for Families
for 40 Years