Erb’s Palsy Birth Injury

The Medical Negligence team at Callan Tansey Solicitors LLP has successfully represented many people with Erb’s Palsy. Our work has got explanations from the hospitals concerned as to how this injury occurred. We have also secured compensation for this birth injury for our clients. In fact, Johan Verbruggen, Associate Solicitor in our Galway office has […]
‘I am lucky that I’m not profoundly disabled following traumatic birth’
Verbruggen settled a case for a six-year-old girl who suffers with partial paralysis of her left arm & postural difficulty – a condition known as Erb’s palsy – following a difficult birth.
€400,000 for girl, 6, over shoulder injury allegedly suffered at birth

It meant a great deal to our Johan Verbruggen on a personal level, to achieve a fantastic result for little Alice Hayes who like him, suffers from Erb’s palsy, as a result of a traumatic birth.
The medical negligence victim turned negligence solicitor

Johan Verbruggen, who has Erb’s palsy, says his parents ‘were told it was their own fault’
Johan Verbruggen: His mother’s childbirth experience which left him with Erb’s Palsy

Johan Verbruggen on Joe Duffy show talking about his mother’s traumatic childbirth.