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Birth Injury Vs. Birth Defect People often confuse and conflate “birth injury” with “birth defect.” Birth injuries are the types of injuries that are discussed here: physical trauma or other factor injuring an infant either during the pregnancy or birth, or after the birth. Birth defects are physical or chemical defects that present at birth. Defects are typically inherited genetically or caused by some environmental factor. Generally, there is no lawsuit to be brought in the case of birth defects, unless the defect is caused by an environmental factor like a pharmaceutical product defect or chemical pollution. Those sorts of defects present a different sort of lawsuit.