When you receive medical treatment from a licensed physician, you trust that you’ll get the quality of care that you bargained for. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Doctors can and do make life-threatening mistakes. When that happens, you deserve to have someone fight for you.
| Case Description | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jury verdict against local urologist | $1,850,000 |
| Jury verdict against local obstetrician/gynecologist | $900,000 |
| Malpractice settlement against a local urologist | $800,000 |
| Award to an infant after trial and settlement | $750,000 |
| Settlement for an inpatient suicide | $500,000 |
| Award to a widow for local hospital malpractice | $400,000 |
| Settlement for death of an elderly patient | $350,000 |
| Settlement against local obstetrician/gynecologist | $300,000 |
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Medical malpractice occurs when a hospital, doctor, or other health care professional causes an injury to a patient through a negligent act or omission. To pursue a medical malpractice claim, you must generally prove two (2) things: substandard care and what did that substandard care then cause in terms of injury.
Click on each box to learn about some of the specific types of medical malpractice cases we handle.
To prove a medical malpractice case, we need to show the following things:
In a medical malpractice case, the damages typically fall into what are called “compensatory damages”. These damages are designed to compensate you for your loss. Those losses may be economic or non-economic:
When most people think of medical malpractice, they think of physicians doing harm. But anyone who provides health care services that harm or injure a patient can be held accountable. So nurses, therapists and a host of other people involved in your care may qualify as health care providers.
This differs from state to state, but in Virginia the time limit for malpractice cases typically is two years. There are a number of exceptions to that and as such each case must be evaluated individually.
The goal of a medical malpractice claim is to seek compensation for your losses or damages. So the compensation you can recover should match your specific loss or damage.
If you lost income due to time off of work, you should be able to recover compensation for the lost wages. If you were injured and incurred medical care and bills to address the injury, you should be able to get compensation to cover those costs.
As indicated above, your damages in a medical malpractice case may be either economic or non-economic. Sometimes the economic losses are minor and the non-economic damages are the more compelling ones.
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