Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death

Medical malpractice/negligence claims are among the most complex personal injury cases.  Such claims allege that a health care professional, such as a physician, nurse, or hospital, has breached or departed from essential requisites of care resulting in the patient’s injuries.

We Know Medical Malpractice Defense Tactics

Health care professionals, doctors, nurse, and hospitals, and their insurance companies, aggressively fight and defend claims made against them. Insurance defense lawyers are usually among the best trial lawyers, and use aggressive defense tactics to win for their clients.

We should know: attorney David Hughes Harris used to be a defense lawyer for doctors, nurses, and hospitals. He represented world renowned medical centers, ivy league hospitals, health systems, and doctors in multi-million dollar medical malpractice cases, ranging from failure to diagnose cases to birth injury cases.

Every aspect of your life, as the inured patient and consumer, will often be unearthed and viewed under a proverbial microscope. Your background, including medical history, education, employment, finances, family and social relationships, will be reviewed by the defense. Whether you have ever made a personal injury claim or been arrested will be examined. Your documents will be subpoenaed or otherwise obtained by the defense.

This litigation process is often very expensive for injured patient’s attorney. The process can also be very stressful and demanding upon the malpractice victim.

Your lawyer must be aggressive, dedicate substantial time, effort, and energy, as well spend large sums of money to prepare your case. In this regard, your attorney has to obtain and review not just all the hospital, doctor, and other medical records regarding the malpractice case, but also review your past medical records (just as the defense attorney and insurance company will be doing in their effort to defend the case).

Your attorney must hire experts, perform his own investigation in the medical and legal facts, take testimony of the parties, witnesses, and expert witnesses, and prepare the case for trial with expensive exhibits. If is not uncommon for these cases to cost your attorney tens of thousands to more than one hundred thousand dollars to prepare for trial.

If jury finds in favor of the doctor, then your lawyer who has advanced the costs of litigation and trial lose that significant amount of money.

In addition to high costs, doctors prevail in approximately 75% of cases brought against them, regardless of the strengths. In more conservative locations (also called venues), the defense verdict rate is even higher. This can happen even if you have a strong case, as many jurors give doctors and other health care professionals the benefit of the doubt, and do not hold these medical professionals responsible for bad results.

The key is proving that the bad results were the result of inadequate care – malpractice. Sometimes the distinction between proper care and substandard care can be difficult to prove.  You need an experienced lawyer to review your facts.

Because the costs so expensive, and their challenges great, we only consider cases that are strong on the merits and involving permanent, catastrophic injury (e.g. blindness, paralysis, brain damage, birth injury, wrongful death).

This means that we review your malpractice claim on it its merits and make a determination our representation if believe in our legal judgment that liability is strong and the damages involve catastrophic injury or death.

We simply cannot and will not handle cases which involve proper or adequate care but ended in bad results.

Medical Malpractice Attorney

If your loved one has been seriously injured or killed as the result of major medical malpractice, then please contact us to seek justice on your behalf.

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