Los Angeles Birth Injury Lawyers

Los Angeles County is home to one of the largest Latino communities in the United States, and it is also the county where the most babies are born in California: 90,259 births to county residents in 2024, according to the California Department of Public Health. The great majority of those deliveries end well. When something goes wrong in the delivery room, though, a family in Boyle Heights, South Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley or the Harbor area suddenly needs answers from a system that can feel enormous.

Babies in Los Angeles are delivered in three very different kinds of hospitals: county hospitals run by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (Los Angeles General, Harbor-UCLA and Olive View-UCLA), University of California hospitals such as Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and private hospitals like Cedars-Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, California Hospital and White Memorial. The kind of hospital where your baby was born changes the deadline and the steps in a birth-injury case, which is why Beverly Law looks at that question first.

Hospitals where babies are delivered in Los Angeles

These are some of the hospitals with labor and delivery units in Los Angeles County, with the type of hospital and the NICU level where we could confirm it:

• Los Angeles General Medical Center (formerly LAC+USC) — 2051 Marengo St., Los Angeles, CA 90033 · Los Angeles County hospital (public)
• Harbor-UCLA Medical Center — 1000 W. Carson St., Torrance, CA 90509 · Los Angeles County hospital (public)
• Olive View-UCLA Medical Center — 14445 Olive View Dr., Sylmar, CA 91342 · Los Angeles County hospital (public)
• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center — 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 · University of California hospital (UCLA, public entity)
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — 8700 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 · Private hospital · Level IV NICU
• Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center — 4867 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027 · Private hospital (Kaiser) · NICU
• Dignity Health – California Hospital Medical Center — 1401 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90015 · Private hospital
• Adventist Health White Memorial — 1720 E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033 · Private hospital

Public hospital or private hospital: why it changes the deadline

Of the hospitals listed above, Los Angeles General, Harbor-UCLA and Olive View-UCLA are run by Los Angeles County, and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center belongs to the University of California, so all four are public entities; Cedars-Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, California Hospital and White Memorial are private.

Many California babies are born at county or University of California hospitals: LAC+USC, Harbor-UCLA, Olive View-UCLA, Riverside University Health System, Arrowhead Regional, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UC Davis and others. These are public entities, and the Government Claims Act applies. Under Government Code § 911.2, a written claim for injury or death must be presented to the public entity within six months of the injury, before any lawsuit. If the claim is rejected in writing, Government Code § 945.6 gives six months from that notice to file suit. The child’s longer deadline under Code of Civil Procedure § 340.5 does not replace this six-month claim, so families with a public-hospital birth should act right away.

Where a birth-injury case is filed in Los Angeles County

A medical malpractice lawsuit is an unlimited civil case, and in Los Angeles County it is filed with the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Most birth-injury and other personal injury cases are filed in the court’s Central District at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Beverly Law prepares the complaint, files it and handles every hearing so that you do not have to.

Deadline to file

California gives a child’s birth-injury case its own deadline. Under Code of Civil Procedure § 340.5, a minor must sue within three years of the wrongful act, but a child who was under six when it happened has until his or her eighth birthday if that is longer. For a baby hurt during labor or delivery, that usually means the eighth birthday. The clock runs from the act itself, not from the day the family learned what went wrong, and it is paused only in narrow cases of fraud or collusion. Parents’ own claims, and claims against a public hospital, can have much shorter deadlines, so it is safer to get advice early.

Birth injuries we handle in Los Angeles

Beverly Law handles the full range of birth injuries for families in Los Angeles, including:

• Cerebral Palsy →
• Erb’s Palsy / Brachial Plexus Injury →
• HIE / Oxygen Deprivation at Birth →
• Statute of Limitations →
• MICRA Damages Cap →

How Beverly Law helps families in Los Angeles

Beverly Law starts every Los Angeles birth-injury case the same way: we obtain the labor and delivery records, fetal monitoring strips and NICU notes at no cost to you, and we have them reviewed by obstetric and neonatal medical experts to find out whether the injury could have been prevented. If it could, we deal with the hospital and its insurer from that point on, so that you can focus on your child.

There is no fee unless we win, and in California medical malpractice cases attorney fees are set by law. Our team works in English y Español, and if getting to an office is hard with a newborn or a child with special needs, we come to you anywhere in Los Angeles County or set up a video consultation.

Birth injuries we handle in Los Angeles

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Important: This page is general information about birth injuries and California law, not legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship with Beverly Law. Every case is different — talk to a lawyer about your own situation. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. No fee unless we win. Last reviewed: 2026-09-18.