Medical Malpractice Case Investigations

Is this a case you should accept?

Medical malpractice cases are risky business for the attorney that is willing to take them. Litigating a malpractice case, or even representing a client to try to obtain a settlement, requires a significant investment of time and money. What may seem obvious in the initial assessment, no longer seems so assured once the defense offers its explanation. It soon becomes clear why so few malpractice cases are adjudicated in the plaintiff’s favor. Medicine is an arcane field, and every case has a variety of nuances that only a well trained, experienced physician can truly appreciate. It takes many years of singular focus on medicine to understand the pitfalls presented by a medicolegal dispute. Since you are reading this page, you must now realize that obtaining guidance from a reputable physician or finding an appropriate expert witness for such cases is not usually easy. Most physicians want no part of medical litigation.

Medical Malpractice Investigation is the answer to your problem. Before you obligate yourself to a significant expenditure, or overlook an opportunity, let us perform an Initial Case Review for you and your client. The initial case review will take a very detailed look at the events and facts as gleaned from the medical chart review, the x rays, the pathology reports, and any other documents that you supply. From our initial malpractice case investigation, we can determine if there was a breach in the national, Standard of Care, whether that breach was the proximate cause of damages, and whether those damages were objectively significant.

Our initial case review will also help you narrow your focus to the appropriate defendants, preventing you from wasting time with irrelevant parties while assuring that you have not excluded those needed to be included to prove your case. After your medical legal case is reviewed, we will call you to discuss our findings in terms that you will clearly understand and answer all of your questions. If the case has merit, we will offer strategic ideas of how the litigation might best be pursued or modify the strategy according to your concerns.

During that conversation, we will discuss the Standard of Care. The Standard of Care is not written down in any book or determined by decree. Your expert witness will have an opinion on the Standard, and the defense expert will have an opinion. Our opinion on the Standard will be guided by the practice patterns of physicians with the same or similar education and experience, under the same or similar circumstances. These practice patterns are influenced by what is taught in the medical schools, written in the medical literature, and recommended by medical societies and conferences. We research these sources and utilize our own experiences and those of our colleagues to help define this standard for you.

Medical Malpractice Investigation does not stop there. We can help you through the entire process of litigation or any part of it that you might choose. If we have done an Initial Case Review, we can help you prepare interrogatories for a deposition, or we can review your depositions to help you interpret the answers and adjust strategies in accordance with the facts that you have unveiled.

If your state requires a Malpractice Panel Submission, Panel Review, or some similar requirement prior to formal litigation, we can help you. Medical Malpractice Investigation can compose an argument that speaks physician to physician, in terms that the panel will appreciate, using a physician’s logic.

When you are ready, we will obtain and peruse the CV’s of experts in the fields that you need. We have access to many testifying experts presently practicing in every different field of medicine or ancillary service. We will screen these board certified medical experts to be sure that the expert we recommend is best suited for the type of case that you are prosecuting.

From beginning to end, if we are in agreement that your medical malpractice case has merit, you have a doctor in your corner. You always have a physician that you can call for advice or explanation anytime during business hours. If the case is valid, we are there to help you and your client. We have even been consulted during trials or depositions for advice. Whatever you need, we are there to help. The defense attorneys will have many physicians ready to help them. You have Medical Malpractice Investigation.