Medical Malpractice

Introduction

Errors made by healthcare providers can have an intense impact on a patient’s life, often causing substantial pain and suffering, permanent disabilities, and even death. Luckily, healthcare providers carrier significant insurance policies to pay for their mistakes and to compensate patients and their families. In order to obtain compensation for injuries sustained as a result of medical malpractice, you need an experienced and aggressive attorney to represent you in your fight against those powerful insurance companies. The lawyers at FROST & ASSOCIATES, LLC can help you through this complicated process and will fight for the compensation and justice that you deserve.

Definition of Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice occurs when a healthcare provider “breaches the standard of care”, which is essentially negligence for doctors. The “standard of care” is what a reasonably competent healthcare provider, with similar training and experience, would do under the same or similar circumstances. When a healthcare care provider breaches the “standard of care,” and that negligence results in injury, a potential medical malpractice claim exists.

Recoverable Damages

Injuries that result from medical malpractice can give rise to a variety of recoverable damages, including:

Past and future pain and suffering

  • Past medical expenses
  • Past lost wages
  • Future medical expenses
  • Future lost wages
  • Loss of ability to perform household duties
  • Loss of consortium

What Types of Medical Malpractice Cases do you handle?

FROST &  ASSOCIATES, LLC, and the firms that it works with, handle a variety of types of medical malpractice cases. We will investigate any case where a doctor, nurse, hospital, or other health care professional breached the standards of care and that negligence caused an injury. While there are various scenarios in which a possible medical malpractice case may arise, with our referral partners, we have handled these types of cases, among others:

  • Wrongful death
  • Birth injury
  • Spinal cord injuries/paralysis
  • Nursing Home Abuse/Injuries
  • Amputation
  • Injuries to internal organs, such as kidney damage
  • Gentamicin Toxicity
  • Stroke/transient ischemic attack/tPA
  • Misdiagnosis/incorrect diagnosis/failure to diagnose, including cancer
  • Medication errors
  • Surgical errors
  • Infection/Sepsis/SIRS
  • Emergency room errors
  • Negligence by urgent care facilities

If you have been injured as a result of medical malpractice, call the lawyers at FROST & ASSOCIATES, LLC to discuss your case.

Birth Injury

Birth injuries are some of the most devastating injuries imaginable. If your child suffers from cerebral palsy or another significant injury as a result of an improperly managed pregnancy, labor and delivery, or newborn care, you need help. You and your child need an aggressive and competent attorney to fight for your child’s rights, and to help to secure their financial future. With the lawyers at FROST & ASSOCIATES, LLC in your corner, you can be assured that you have a team on your side who will fight passionately for your child.

What Damages can I recover for Birth Injuries?

The financial cost and amount of time and stress which goes along with caring for a child with disabilities can be overwhelming. You want the best quality care for your child, and you want to provide your child with all of the opportunities that they deserve to get better and to live the happiest, healthiest life imaginable. Let the lawyers at FROST & ASSOCIATES, LLC fight to recover enough money so that you can secure that future for your child.

Damages in birth injury cases may include:

  • Past and future pain and suffering
  • Past medical expenses
  • Future medical expenses
  • Future lost wages/loss of earning capacity

What types of Birth Injury Cases do you investigate?

We investigate and pursue various types of birth injury cases. Negligence during pregnancy, labor and delivery, or in the newborn period can result in a variety of different injuries to mother and child. While the scenarios in which such an injury may arise are endless, here are a few examples of the more common cases that we see:

  • Cerebral palsy
  • Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
  • PVL
  • Prematurity
  • Preterm labor
  • Nuchal cords
  • Intrauterine and fetal death
  • Death during the newborn period
  • Chorioamnionitis and maternal infection
  • Maternal death
  • Cephalohematoma
  • Erb’s Palsy
  • Brachial plexus injuries
  • Shoulder dystocia
  • Subconjunctival Hemorrhage
  • Failure to utilize therapeutic cooling
  • Failure to initiate betamethasone therapy
  • Cerclage
  • 17p/Progesterone

If your child suffered an injury at birth or during the neonatal period, call the lawyers at FROST & ASSOCIATES, LLC to discuss what we might be able to do to help.