Medical Malpractice

An experienced medical malpractice attorney can help you to determine if your case has merit. Many mistakes are simply that, but if your doctor’s mistake was the result of negligence or failure to meet the expected standard of care, then...

This is the degree of care and skill that the average qualified doctor would provide to a patient who sought medical care for similar symptoms and circumstances.

In general, there are no guarantees of medical results. You would have to show an injury or damages that resulted from the doctor’s deviation from the appropriate standard of care for your condition.

Contact Scott C. Gottlieb, Injury Law Attorney. Tell us exactly what happened to you, from the first time you visited your doctor through your last contact. What were the circumstances surrounding your illness or injury? How did your doctor treat...

It is common practice in hospitals for patients to sign a form giving the doctor their consent, or approval, to perform surgery. In the form, the patient usually consents to the specific surgery as well as to any other procedures...

A jury will consider testimony by experts–usually other doctors, who will testify whether they believe your physician’s actions followed standard medical practice or fell below the accepted standard of care. In deciding whether your heart surgeon was negligent, for example,...

A medication error is defined as any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication, while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer. Such events may be related to professional practice,...

In determining whether a medical practitioner made a mistake, the court will consider what reasonable, prudent medical practitioners would have done in the same situation. If the medical practitioners do not meet that standard, they could be found negligent.

They did not diagnosis you properly. They did not perform an operation properly or timely. They did not anticipate a problem which they should have. They did not get clear permission before operating on you. They did not properly treat...

Medical malpractice occurs when a health care provider causes injury or death to a patient by failing to act within the applicable standard of care. In other words, a physician or other health care provider commits medical malpractice and is...