What Is A Medical Malpractice Claim? Medical malpractice claims arise when people are injured by healthcare providers. These healthcare providers include doctors, hospitals, nurses, dentists, chiropractors, podiatrists and other providers. These actions are called civil “tort” actions. The phrase medical malpractice is the same as medical negligence or medical accidents.
Wrongful Death
A wrongful death occurs when someone is killed as a result of someone else’s negligence. If you have a loved one who was killed in an untimely accident, A wrongful death claim can’t bring your loved one back, but it can help you and your family seek justice and move on with your life.
Catastrophic Injury
Catastrophic injuries require a completely separate category from other types of injuries, because catastrophic injuries are the type of injuries that can change your life forever. Catastrophic injuries include brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, serious burns and amputations; anything that changes the way you live your life.
When you’re dealing with a catastrophic injury, you typically have extremely high medical bills, and an
expectation for more medical bills in the future as you continue to address your injury. because Catastrophic injuries change your life.
Prescription Drugs
Prescription drugs are a potentially serious threat for anyone taking them. Over the past twenty years, numerous prescription drugs have been recalled for serious side effects up to and including death. Prescription drug companies market these products to treat diseases, reduce symptoms and improve your quality of life, but in reality, some of these drugs can actually ruin your life. Do not let defective prescription drugs ruin your life without a fight.
These cases are complex, costly and time-consuming. The injured party does not have to prove that the health provider intentionally injured the patient, but that the healthcare provider deviated from the standard of care meaning that the healthcare provider failed to exercise reasonable care.
What Damages Are Available In A Medical Malpractice Action? The injured person is entitled to a variety of damages such as pain and suffering, disability, loss of ability to go about their normal lifestyle, reimbursement for medical bills, loss of past and future wages, disfigurement and for future damages. The intent is to put the injured person back in his position that he was in prior to injury.
Medical malpractice cases can also involve a claim for damages due to death. In this type of claim the damages include loss of society (which is the loss of relationship of the family resulting from the death of a loved one), loss of support from the loss, medical bills, funeral and burial expenses.
Sorrow and confusion follow the untimely death of a loved one who dies as the result of a medical or surgical error. Long term stress and heartache comes along with serious injuries caused to a victim of diagnosis failure, plastic surgery errors, hospital negligence and prescription drug errors. There are numerous deaths each year that could be traced to medical malpractice and medical errors. When a physician performs any type of medical procedure they take responsibility for that patient and any injuries that may be caused to that person’s body as the result of an improper procedure. If a loved one has suffered a wrongful death because of a doctor's medical malpractice, please contact Law Offices of Sofian Solomon Dawood to discuss the events of the medical operation and please give us an opportunity to describe how we can assist you.
Why do You Need a Medical Malpractice Lawyer?
Any medical malpractice legal action is generally very complex requiring a skilled attorney to properly present the facts in such a manner that a jury would see that the doctor and the hospital were responsible for the injuries. Law Offices of Sofian Solomon Dawood Thoroughly review any Medical Malpractice case that we take. Law Offices of Sofian Solomon Dawood are well equipped to fight for you in obtaining the compensation you deserve.
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