Medical Malpractice
Greenville SC Medical Malpractice Attorney
Thomas Creech is a Greenville, SC medical malpractice attorney who represents individuals and families harmed by medical negligence. When a provider fails to meet the standard of care, the consequences can affect your health, your future, and your family.
Medical Malpractice Law in Greenville SC
It’s difficult enough to deal with a serious medical condition. When your harm is caused or made worse by a provider you trusted, the impact can be overwhelming.
Medical professionals are expected to provide care that meets accepted standards. When they fail to do so and a patient is harmed as a result, it may constitute medical negligence.
Taking action can help address the harm you’ve suffered and hold the responsible provider accountable. If you believe you may have a case, speaking with an experienced Greenville, SC medical malpractice attorney can help you understand your options.
Start your Journey to Justice today. Contact Thomas Creech for a free consultation.
You have questions. Greenville Medical Malpractice Attorney Thomas Creech has answers
Medical malpractice cases often raise difficult and urgent questions. With experience handling complex claims, we can evaluate potential cases efficiently and provide clear, straightforward guidance early in the process.
You may be asking:
- Do I have a case?
- What is my case worth?
- How long will the process take?
- What will it cost, including attorneys’ fees and case expenses?
Thomas Creech has been recognized nationally, including selection to Best Lawyers in America for Medical Malpractice.
We’re here to help you understand your situation and your options. Contact us to speak with a Greenville medical malpractice attorney and get answers grounded in experience, careful analysis, and sound legal judgment.
Important Medical Malpractice Numbers
Understanding some startling statistics underscores the importance of finding a Greenville medical malpractice attorney.
The number of outpatients who experience diagnostic errors every year.
Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
2016 study confirms more than 250K deaths per year are due to medical error.
Source: John Hopkins
Birth injuries account for 20% of the 20,000 infant deaths that occur in the U.S. every year.
Source: Cerebal Palsy Guide
Medical Malpractice Situations
When hiring a medical malpractice attorney in Greenville, South Carolina, it is important to consider their experience with complex personal injury cases, including medical malpractice. As a seasoned medical malpractice lawyer, Thomas Creech brings over 20 years of experience advocating for injury victims and their families.
Here are some situations that could require the services of a Greenville medical malpractice lawyer:
- Missed diagnosis of an illness or condition, such as cancer
- Not treating or wrongly treating a disease or condition
- Not diagnosing and treating an infection like MRSA correctly
- Surgical mistake or injury caused by a bad surgery
- Medication administration errors
- Birth injuries, including cerebral palsy
- Failure to treat blood clots, pulmonary embolism, or deep vein thromboses
- Failure to treat a ruptured appendix
- Failure to treat sepsis in a patient
- Failure to treat Compartment Syndrome, leading to amputation
- Failure to treat or control high blood pressure causing stroke or brain injury
- Injury during gall bladder removal surgery
- Foreign objects left in a patient after surgery
Additionally, nurses and other hospital staff must be held accountable for their mistakes. Some common nursing and hospital staff negligence include:
- Patient falls – Nurses or hospital staff failing to prevent a patient from falling due to improper patient supervision or monitoring
- Pressure sores or wounds
- Incorrect medication administration
- Failure to follow a doctor’s orders in patient care
- Failure to properly supervise or watch over a patient
Why Medical Malpractice Attorney Greenville SC Case Experience Counts
Investigating your medical malpractice case is extremely important and often requires the firm to hire expert witnesses. With his Greenville medical malpractice experience, Thomas Creech can locate and select the necessary and effective medical experts to prove your potential case. Those experts are usually out-of-state experts.
We aim to hire the most highly qualified experts to prove your case. Under South Carolina law, a medical expert is required in most medical malpractice cases before the case can even be filed and go forward.
Thomas Creech also has actual jury trial experience in medical malpractice cases in the Upstate of South Carolina. He’s also filed, litigated, and settled many other malpractice cases out of court.
Thomas Creech has been recognized by the highly respected The Best Lawyers in America publication in the practice areas for Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs and Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs for 2024 and just recently again for 2025.
Thomas Creech has represented clients in cases against many upstate South Carolina medical providers and healthcare facilities, including Prisma Upstate, Bon Secours St Francis, Spartanburg Regional Health System, and the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston as well.
With our extensive experience, we believe that we can quickly and efficiently advise you whether you may have a medical malpractice case. After investigation, once we believe that you have a case, we will pursuit it vigorously on your behalf.
Birth Injury Case Experience
We represent children and families in birth injury cases where providers fail to recognize the child was struggling during labor and deprived of oxygen, which can lead to an extremely harmful brain injury known as cerebral palsy.
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How to find a Medical Malpractice Attorney Near Me
Our offices are conveniently located off of I-385 in Greenville close to Haywood Mall, Bon Secours St. Francis Eastside Hospital, Prisma Patewood Hospital. Our Orchard Park location offers ample free parking so you don’t need to search for a parking space in downtown Greenville.
Greenville Medical Malpractice Lawyer Fees & Case Costs
We offer free consultations in addition to a contigency-based fee structure.
In medical malpractice cases, my firm charges attorney’s fees contingent upon there being a financial recovery in your case, whether by jury verdict or settlement. Thus, there is no attorney fee if there is no financial recovery.
The attorneys contingency fee is a percentage of the gross recovery that comes out of the recovery “off the top”, that is before anything else, such as case costs, other expenses are deducted. In other words, the attorneys contingency fee is computed before other expenses are deducted.
Medical malpractice cases also involve case costs such as court filing fees, costs of expert witnesses, and other costs. To learn more about how we handle case costs, contact us to schedule a free consultation.