HOSPITAL MALPRACTICE LAWYER - SETTLEMENTS

Hospital malpractice is the failure of a health care provider to treat and care for a patient with a reasonable degree of skill and care. The medical profession which includes doctors, nurses and hospital technicians usually provides a caring service with a high standard of excellence for their patients however there are occasions when things go wrong. If you or your child have been injured as a result of a failure by the medical profession you may be entitled to financial compensation for medical malpractice.

Hospital malpractice claims for clinical negligence are often complex and technical and it is essential that you are properly represented by a specialist lawyer to ensure that you establish liability and obtain maximum compensation. We can ensure that you get a fair deal by recommending your claim to a lawyer who is a member of The Association of Trial Lawyers of America with a track record of many years successful verdicts and settlements for medical negligence claims. Your claim will be dealt with using a contingency fee arrangement which means if you don't succeed in receiving a settlement then your lawyer won't get paid. You can rely on our specialist advocates to take care of your compensation claim in a comprehensive, helpful, sympathetic and professional manner.

If you are an innocent victim you may be able to recover compensation. If you would like free advice without obligation from a hospital malpractice lawyer just complete the contact form and a specialist attorney will telephone.

HOSPITAL MALPRACTICE FACTS AND FIGURES

• Less than 3,000 doctors face any serious disciplinary procedure each year which represents less then 1%.
• The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that 100,000 patients may be killed annually as a result of medical and hospital malpractice.
• Various sources have found that up to 1% of patients treated in hospital were injured, and 25% of those died because of medical negligence.
• The potential abuse by physicians working outside of hospitals is even greater and almost half of all doctors questioned recall a case in which a patient died due to physician error.
• Only one in eight patients that suffers from negligence actually consults a hospital malpractice lawyer and files a lawsuit.
• Autopsy studies from hospitals show rates between 35% and 40% of missed diagnoses with most resulting in death but these figures do not include deaths from missed diagnoses or medical negligence that occurred in clinics, private doctors' offices, or other treatment facilities which it is anticipated are higher.
• Medical negligence insurance costs represents 3% of the average physician’s revenues and while medical costs have increased by over 100% percent in the last ten years the amount spent on insurance has increased by only 50 percent over the same time.
• Over one million medical negligence claims have been filed in the last 12 years and over 80,000 new claims are filed every year.

• The cost to society of medical negligence is estimated to exceed $20,000,000,000 annually.
• 5% of doctors account for 50% of the medical negligence settlements.
• Over 35,000 doctors have been responsible two or more negligence settlements since 1990 however less than 8% of them have been disciplined. Of doctors with five medical negligence settlements only 13% have been disciplined.