Medical Malpractice
Doctors, nurses and other health care providers
spend a great deal of time learning how to treat a great variety
of illnesses and physical maladies. As a group they are professionals
dedicated to helping alleviate the ailments that can plague
mankind. Unfortunately, health care providers can also make
mistakes. When mistakes are made the effects can be devastating.
In fact, according to the National Academy of Sciences, approximately
98,000 Americans die from "medical mistakes" each year.
Medical malpractice is a form of negligence involving a medical
treatment provider. If someone is injured as a result of a treatment
provider's digression from the standard of care, that treater
may be liable for the injury that has occurred. The determination
of whether a medical professional has met the standard of care
is based on a comparison to other professionals in the same field
and the same geographical region. In other words, what would
a reasonably competent medical professional practicing in the
same field as the defendant, and in the same area of the defendant,
do under the circumstances that the defendant was facing with
respect to care and treatment of the patient?
Medical malpractice does not occur every
time there is a bad outcome from treatment. It is simply a
duty to provide good care according to the accepted standards
of the community and/or the accepted standards of a particular
medical specialty. The law generally recognizes the practice
of medicine as an "art" rather
than as an exact science. Therefore, some latitude is given to
practitioners with respect to the manner in which they choose
to address the problems of specific patients.
What You Need To Know:
Insurance companies' obligations are to their stockholders and
policy holders, not to the people injured by their insured's
negligence. Insurance companies' desire to maximize their own
profits provides them with every motivation to try to deny your
claim or pay you the very minimum amount that they can get away
with. The insurance companies also have enormous advantages:
they have immense wealth, armies of experienced adjusters and
lawyers and years of experience reducing and denying claims.
At the Law Office of Stephen A. Burroughs,
our only obligation is to you, our client. We will use our experience
and every resource available to protect your interests, and we
will work hard to help you receive the full value for your case.
We will advise you every step of the way to help you avoid any
mistakes that could cost you money. There is no charge for attorney's
fees until you recover money for your personal injuries, and
we will also help you resolve your property damage claims for
no fee whatsoever. For assistance, call today at 1-877-300-3773, contact
us or submit
an free online case evaluation.
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