Paediatric medico-legal reports
Erb’s Palsy Claims: Paediatric Birth Injury Reports
An Erb’s palsy claim turns on how the baby’s shoulder was managed during delivery. We provide paediatric expert reports on Erb’s palsy, weakness in the arm caused by a stretch injury to the nerves of the shoulder (the brachial plexus) at birth, addressing causation, condition and prognosis. You see the expert’s CV before you instruct. The report is written to the expert’s CPR Part 35 duty to the court. We act for instructing solicitors on either side.
Overview
What Erb’s palsy means in a claim
Erb’s palsy is weakness or loss of movement in the arm caused by damage to the brachial plexus, the network of nerves at the shoulder, usually during a difficult delivery.
Why it matters legally
Claims examining shoulder dystocia and delivery
These are clinical negligence claims examining the management of shoulder dystocia and delivery, and whether a delayed diagnosis affected the outcome.
Reports we produce
The reports an Erb’s palsy claim relies on
Experts who assess it
The paediatric specialists on an Erb’s palsy claim
Neonatologists and consultant paediatricians address the birth and diagnosis; a further paediatric subspecialist can address function where needed, and a paediatric neurologist addresses the nerve injury and functional recovery.
Case-type context
Where these claims sit
These claims sit in clinical negligence and birth injury proceedings. Erb’s palsy commonly arises from the management of shoulder dystocia; for the wider delivery context, see birth injury claims.
FAQ
Erb’s palsy claims: common questions
A solicitor brings a clinical negligence claim supported by expert evidence on how the delivery was managed and the child’s prognosis.
A delay in recognising or referring the injury can be relevant to causation and outcome; our experts address it independently.
Where negligence caused or worsened the injury, a claim may follow; our reports address causation and prognosis.
Yes, for instructing solicitors on either side.
Many children improve, while some are left with lasting weakness; our reports address the child’s likely recovery and function on the specific facts.
Instructing on an Erb’s palsy claim?
Send your case details and we will allocate an Erb’s palsy expert within 48 hours, with a same-working-day quotation and the CV before you instruct.