Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice occurs when medical providers cause injury or death to their patients by using less than standard medical care when treating their patients. In other words, their care falls below the standard of care which other providers would use in the same or similar circumstances.

Medical providers include doctors, nurses, dentists, chiropractors, hospitals, medical technicians, psychiatrists, and other healthcare professionals who deliver medical services.

Thousands and thousands of people are victims of medical mistakes, and if a medical or healthcare provider has made a mistake that causes you serious injury, you may well have a medical malpractice case.

Here are some examples of medical mistakes we have evaluated and handled:

• Failure to properly deliver babies
• Wrongful death of babies during pregnancy and delivery
• Improper fetal monitoring
• Failure to diagnose and treat cancer
• Failure to properly perform surgery on brain, back, neck, arms and legs, heart and other internal organs
• Failure to properly perform colonoscopy, colostomy and ileostomy
• Failure to diagnose cardiac arrest and heart condition
• Failure to diagnose and treat psychiatric conditions
• Improper anesthesia administration and monitoring during surgery
• Failure to properly diagnose and treat in the Emergency Room
• Improper insertion of medical devices including feeding tubes, tracheal tubes and morphine pumps
• Failure to take patient to closet medical facility
• Improper prescription and administration of drugs and medication
• Failure to properly care for nursing home residents including improper handling and treatment resulting in bedsores, decubitus ulcers and death
• Delay in diagnosis of brain injury, ureteral injury, respiratory distress, and other medical conditions
• Misdiagnosis of brain injury, spinal injury, and vital organ injuries leading to permanent injury, paralysis and death