Expected Payout
$140,452,391.00*
Cerebral Palsy suffered by triplets due to medical malpractice in their prenatal and perinatal care and treatment**
Settlement Payout
$ 750,000.00
Heavy equipment operator suffered serious burns when explosion occurred during refueling of machine
* expected payout over 80 years
**Case handled with co-counsel Christopher Meagher, Esq.
-Please note that each case must be evaluated on the specific facts and evaluation of a specific case may vary from "no merit" to a multi-million dollar recovery.
FACTS ABOUT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
Medical malpractice is a broad term generally used to describe any treatment, lack of treatment, or other departure from accepted standards of medical care, health care, or safety on the part of a health care provider that causes harm to a patient.
In many instances, medical malpractice is not obvious to a lay-person and requires the review and analysis by medical experts. Professional Medical Conduct is included in Malpractice
Surgical errors during the course of an operation including severing a nerve or leaving medical instruments such as sponges or other foreign objects inside the patient.
After receiving the proper medical care contact our law office. You might be suffering from errors a hospital or doctor made to you from surgery. There are medical standards for many procedures. Your Post-Operation Pain, long term pain or acute pain , might not be your fault.
Surgery Negligence may have been a factor in your current pain & suffering.
Do I have to go through the Medical Board to file a liability claim against my physician?
No, the Medical Board does not evaluate, give advice, or handle civil liability claims. Those are heard in the civil courts.
Has my physician ever been sued?
The Medical Practice Act does not allow public disclosure of this information.
Does a physician have to have malpractice insurance?
Texas statutes do not require physicians to carry malpractice insurance. Many hospitals, however, will require a physician to carry malpractice insurance as a requirement for privileges at the hospital.
Medical malpractice background
Medical malpractice occurs when a physician or other healthcare professional fails to adhere to accepted standards of care or is negligent in the way that medical care is provided. Additionally, a physician must give full information to a patient and fully explain the medical care options so that the patient is able to make an informed decision. The doctor should inform the patient of the diagnosis and the nature and purpose of the treatment, alternatives to the treatment and the benefits and risks of the procedure itself as well as the risks of not undertaking the procedure.
Some common types of malpractice cases involve improper diagnosis of the condition or failure to diagnose the condition, errors in prescribing medication, surgical errors during the course of an operation including severing a nerve or leaving medical instruments such as sponges or other foreign objects inside the patient.
Disclaimers
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FACT: The cost of medical malpractice liability premiums amount to less than one percent of total health care costs.
The Consumer Federation of America reports that medical malpractice premiums comprise only 0.59 percent of national health care costs - so even eliminating medical liability altogether would do little to reduce health care costs. Malpractice Suits Not Driving Medical Costs Up, Says Group, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 5, 1999, at E3.
Between 44,000 and 98,000 people die in hospitals annually each year due to preventable medical errors, the Institute of Medicine found. A survey of doctors and other adults released in December in the New England Journal of Medicine found that more than a third of the doctors said they or their family members had experienced medical errors, most leading to serious health consequences.
