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Personal Injury Law - or tort
law - is a complex umbrella of interrelating laws designed to prevent
harm or compensate for harm to a person or property. This harm or
injury may be a matter of physical injury, mental injury or financial
injury. Medical malpractice or medical negligence and legal
malpractice or legal negligence lawsuits are guided by personal injury
law.
A civil wrong, or a tort, is recognized by law as grounds for a
lawsuit. Sometimes these wrongs are considered crimes and punishable
with imprisonment, but the primary aim of tort law is to provide
relief through compensation to injured parties for the damages
incurred. Among the types of recoverable damages are: loss of earnings
capacity, pain and suffering, and reasonable medical expenses. They
include both present and future expected losses. See our Representative
Cases
Medical negligence occurs through unreasonable
negligence or, more commonly, failure to provide the expected standard
of care in a given community. When a doctor or health care
professional agrees to diagnose or treat a patient, he or she has
assumed a duty of care toward that patient. The health care provider
may be the doctor, nurse or a member of the staff. It is possible that
the individual is a lab or x-ray technician with certain
qualifications for operating advanced medical equipment or
interpreting results of tests.
Annually, 8,000 - 10,000 babies and infants are diagnosed with
cerebral palsy. Estimates suggest that 20% of children diagnosed with
congenital cerebral palsy developed CP due to a brain injury during
the birthing process. While the United States does not currently have
a system to track the rate of cerebral palsy incidents, studies have
shown that there has been an increase in doctor error and birthing
mistakes associated with CP.
While most doctors, nurses, midwives, and hospital technicians provide
a high standard of care for their patients, unfortunately, many
families are harmed by medical mistakes constituting negligence. A
physician may have misread fetal monitoring equipment, failed to
diagnose fetal distress during labor, waited too long to perform a
Caesarian Section, administered too much Pitocin, or failed to act in
a timely manner. Parents of a child suffering with cerebral palsy
should contact
an experienced cerebral palsy lawyer to research the cause of
their child’s condition.
A statute of limitations applies to cerebral palsy medical malpractice
claims, placing time limits on the amount of time families have to
pursue a CP medical malpractice case. Failure to file within the
applicable statute of limitations forever bars your claim. These time
limits vary from state to state. To learn what the time requirements
may be for your state, contact
us.
Parents of a child
suffering with cerebral palsy should contact an experienced
cerebral palsy lawyer to research the cause of their child’s
condition. Haste is essential. Litigation may be the only way to receive
compensation to which you may be entitled. Such compensation will likely
include lost wages, medical bills, and/or financial compensation to
heirs (in the case of a wrongful death).
Contact Medlaw Legal Team
at cp@myadvocates.com or
(877) 425-3448, so we can assist you in determining if you are entitled
to receive compensation for the harm caused to you. Our physicians /
attorneys will review your situation and inform you promptly as to
whether you have a case.
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