Medical Malpractice

A medical malpractice claim is among the most complex of Florida personal injury cases.  Accordingly, when we consider a medical malpractice claims, we can only evaluate those which involve serious personal injury or wrongful death.

A medical malpractice claim alleges that a health care professional, such as a physician, nurse, or hospital, has breached or departed from essential requirements of good care resulting in the patient’s injuries.

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.

Medical Malpractice Lawyer
Your Life Will be Under a Microscope

In a Florida medical malpractice lawsuit, 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.

Understanding the Review and Claims Process

Your Florida medical malpractice 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 Florida medcial malpractice 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.

Harris Law Firm
Medical Malpractice Lawyer

We Only Consider Serious Florida Medical Malpractice Cases

Because the costs and risk of losing are so high, we only consider Florida medical malpractice cases that are strong on the merits and involving permanent, catastrophic injuries (e.g. paralysis, brain damage, birth injuries, death).

This means that we will represent a victim of medical malpractice, after we review the case merits, and make a determination that liability is strong and the damages are catastrophic injury or death.  We cannot and will not handle cases that involve proper or adequate care but unfortunately ended in bad results.