Medical Malpractice

§ Overview

What your case actually involves.

Medical malpractice cases are among the most complex in personal injury law, requiring expert testimony, deep medical knowledge, and the resources to take on hospital systems and insurance companies.

Medical malpractice occurs when a healthcare provider — doctor, nurse, surgeon, anesthesiologist, hospital — deviates from the accepted standard of care and that deviation causes patient harm. The standard of care is what a reasonably competent provider would have done under the same circumstances. Common forms include surgical errors, misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, medication errors, anesthesia mistakes, and failure to obtain informed consent. Proving malpractice requires expert medical witnesses who can establish both the standard of care and how it was breached — which is why most firms will only take cases where the damages are substantial enough to justify the cost.