Medical Malpractice
Simon Passanante has successfully handled numerous serious claims for its clients.
Doctors, nurses, hospitals and other healthcare providers make mistakes: diseases are misdiagnosed, lab results are misread, medication errors occur and patients are neglected. In this day and age of big insurance companies, individuals and their families frequently suffer the consequences of medical malpractice.
Many patients are injured when they fail to receive a proper and timely diagnosis. Medicine is not an exact science. Doctors are not required to be right every time they make a diagnosis. A mis-diagnosis becomes malpractice, however, when doctors breach the prevailing standard of care by failing to spend the time to get an accurate medical history, failing to order appropriate tests or failing to recognize observable symptoms of illnesses. A delayed diagnosis can also be grounds for medical malpractice. Many of the most serious cases of medical malpractice related to diagnostic errors occur in cases involving heart attack, breast cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer and appendicitis. Mistakes made during child delivery could be the cause of a child’s cerebral palsy.
Other common types of malpractice include the following:
Errors in prescribing or administering medication.
Surgical and hospitalization errors.
Failure to properly monitor the patient.
Errors involving the administration of anesthesia.
Adverse reactions (to drugs or procedures) and drug interactions
The failure to treat pulmonary embolisms
Delays in diagnosing an illness or condition.
Medication prescribing errors.
Emergency room lapses
In order to justify a medical malpractice case, the plaintiff: A) Must have suffered significant damages as a result of negligent actions of a medical care provider and B) The negligence of the medical care provider caused damages such as pain, disability, future medical bills, lost wages or death.
At Simon Passanante, we do not hesitate to take on HMO’s, doctors and hospitals when a client has been injured as a result of medical negligence. We utilize the best medical experts and economic experts in the country to ensure that our clients and their families receive the best representation possible.
If you think you have a claim for medical malpractice, call us today for a free consultation. We would be happy to sit down with you to discuss your case at no obligation to you. We will take your case seriously, starting with the way we investigate your claim.
We welcome the opportunity to review your case with you without any cost or obligation. Email Us or call us today:
toll free 877-767-3108
Please note that until we have reviewed and entered into a written representation agreement with you, no attorney-client relationship is established. We will nonetheless keep all information you send us confidential.
