Representing Injured and Disabled Infants,
Children, and Their Families
Dr. Bradshaw can work or consult on cases anywhere in the United States. Dr. Bradshaw has experience on birth trauma cases, as lead attorney and as a consultant, throughout the United States. As lead counsel we work with a local attorney, called “local counsel”, whom we can recommend, or of your choice, and then Dr. Bradshaw is admitted to practice in your state by way of a “pro hac vice”.
Dr. Bradshaw has successfully helped people pursue birth trauma actions resulting in millions of dollars in recovery - see results.
Our typical fee is a contingent fee, meaning you pay nothing until, and only if, we win or obtain a settlement. These contingent fees are often called “no recovery no fee” agreements. Also, we advance all expenses, although some states’ ethical rules require the client to be responsible, in the end, for reimbursement of these costs and expenses - it depends on each state’s law.
Dr. Bradshaw is an attorney and physician with specialized training in this specific type of birth trauma. This specialized training includes Harvard Medical School CME certification in Obstetrics.
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The key to success in these cases is understanding many individual tests and the integration of these tests into a cohesive picture of what happened, what went wrong. The primary focus in many cases is the fetal heart tracing. The unborn baby's heart rate responds in characteristic fashion to the various stresses of labor. The ability to "read" what is happening in the womb based upon the fetal heart tracing is key to successfully pursuing many birth trauma cases. The unborn baby may show characteristic changes to low oxygen levels. The changes vary depending on the cause of the low oxygen and how slow, or sudden, the changes occur (for example, the tracing immediately to the right shows, at the red arrow, not just a deceleration, but a biphasic "W" deceleration, a type of deceleration that is indicative of cord compression and lack of oxygen to the baby).
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Dr. Bradshaw's training and experience in the area of Birth Trauma includes the interpretation of fetal heart tracings, umbilical blood cases, placental pathology and much more. Dr. Bradshaw is also on the Board of Governors for the Birth Trauma Litigation Group with the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. There are less than 100 attorneys in the United States with this distinction.