Medical Malpractice
Medical Malpractice is Unacceptable
You deserve compensation for the harms and losses caused by the medical malpractice you’ve suffered.
Understand that a doctor or medical provider should never violate the standard of care. And if they do, and serious patient harm results, there must be legal accountability and compensation. It’s bad enough to have been harmed by a medical provider you trusted to do the job right. But now, you have injuries and pain. Your life has changed for the worse, and it may be permanent.
Accountability is essential. You can hold a negligent medical provider accountable by seeking compensation for the damage done to you.
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Medical Malpractice Situations
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
Birth Injury Case Experience
We represent children and families in medical malpractice 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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Questions to Ask a Greenville Medical Malpractice Lawyer
With our experience, we can evaluate your medical malpractice case quickly and give you an answer to questions like these sooner rather than later.
- Do I have a case?
- What is my case worth
- How long is it going to take?
- What will the costs in fees and case expenses be?
Our experience allows us to answer these questions accurately and confidently with legal advice, counsel, and advocacy.
Convenient Location
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.
Medical Malpractice Attorney Fees & Case Costs
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.
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, please feel free to contact us.