A doctor, nurse, or other health care practitioner may be liable for your child’s cerebral palsy diagnosis if their negligence directly caused the condition. Medical malpractice arises when a health care provider breaches the accepted professional standard of care, causing injury.

To be successful in a cerebral palsy lawsuit in Brooklyn, you must prove that a medical professional failed to provide the level of care a reasonably prudent professional with the same training and experience would have provided under the same circumstances. You must also show that failure caused the child to develop cerebral palsy and resulted in compensable damages, whether financial, physical, or emotional.

A hospital or health care company may be liable in addition to individual providers under certain circumstances. For instance, the hospital might be liable if it dismissed prior complaints about the practitioner who caused the injury, or its insufficient hiring or training practices contributed to the negligence.