Birth Injury Law

At Butler, Vines & Babb in Knoxville, you’ll find experienced birth injury lawyers backed by in-house medical expertise—working together to assess each case quickly, accurately, and with the care families deserve.

Birth Injury is defined as harm and/or damage to a newborn’s bodily function and/or structure due to a medical professional’s mistake, negligence, malpractice, inefficiency, or flawed hospital policy during the birthing process.

There are many types of birth injuries ranging from minor and self-limited problems (i.e. laceration or bruising) to significant ones that may result in negative and permanent health conditions, or even death.

Birth Injury Law is a subcategory of medical malpractice law and incorporates personal injury cases transpiring from a failure to respond to the following: