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- Wilkes-Barre
- 15 South Franklin Street
- Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711
- TEL: 570.826.5600
- FAX: 570.826.5640
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- Scranton
- 120 Wyoming Avenue
- Scranton, PA 18503
- TEL: 570.341.5600
- FAX: 570.347.9883
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- Hazleton
- 120 East Broad Street
- West Hazleton, PA 18202
- TEL: 570.455.7112
- FAX: 570.455.8304
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Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, and Hazleton Area Personal Injury Attorneys Helping Children
It is often said that children are any community’s most important resource. At Rosenn, Jenkins & Greenwald, L.L.P. in Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, and Scranton, our personal injury attorneys believe that to be true. Unfortunately, children are also at greater risk for a number of different injuries that can permanently impair their ability to grow into normal, healthy adults. We take it as our job to help families afflicted by these injuries to seek justice, and to hold those responsible accountable for their actions.
Birth Injuries
Birthing is and always will be a difficult process, but it is a physician’s job to make it as safe and smooth as possible so as to minimize the risk of personal injury to the mother and the child. Doing so requires extensive knowledge, attentive concentration, and quick decision-making. When doctors fail, the consequences can extend far beyond a difficult birth. This type of medical malpractice can leave the child injured for life, both physically and mentally.
Among the most serious types of personal injury that can stem from a botched birth is cerebral palsy. This condition, which arises when extreme stress during birth causes damage to the infant’s delicate nervous system, can have a wide range of consequences. Victims may experience abnormal growth, mental retardation, and spastic lack of control over muscles in the arms and legs. Therapy may help somewhat, but the effects of such a personal injury almost always persist into adulthood and throughout life. Erb’s palsy is another condition which is caused by similar events, but affects only limb movement, and in a much less severe fashion.
These types of personal injury afflict newborns most often when the obstetrician or nurse on hand fails to respond to birth emergencies in a timely manner or subjects the baby to undue stress in trying to deliver it. With four offices in and around Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, and Hazleton, our personal injury attorneys are here to help the victims and their families seek justice. Contact Rosenn, Jenkins & Greenwald, L.L.P. to discuss your case as soon as possible to help ensure that you get the result you deserve.
Defective Child Restraints
Driving or riding in cars carries some degree of risk for everyone, but especially for small children. The law requires that we safeguard them from personal injury to the greatest extent possible by placing them in restraints specially designed to accommodate their smaller size. When these devices fail to perform as they are intended, though, the damage from a serious auto accident can be severe, and defective product litigation may be required to help the victim and the family move on. Our Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, and Hazleton area personal injury attorneys may be able to assist you in this sad but necessary endeavor.
Damages in Child Personal Injury Lawsuits
The law wisely protects a person’s earning capacity — that is, the ability to earn money in the future. When children are involved, this portion of an award can be very large, as they could reasonably have expected to earn income for 50 or more years down the road. Combined with the sometimes high costs of medical care following a personal injury to a child, the resulting award may need to be very large to adequately compensate the victims. Our firm understands the trauma that seeing a child suffer can bring and strives to do everything it can to help clients in and around the Pennsylvania communities of Hazleton and Scranton. Contact our personal injury attorneys to set up a free consultation concerning your child's case as soon as possible.