law 5/18/2020 – Nursing Home Abuse / Elderly Wrongful Death / Wrongful Death / Medical Malpractice – gtg

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Was Your Family Member Abused in a Nursing Home? We Can Help Recover Damages

The abuse of the elderly, particularly in long term assisted care and private facilities for the mentally impaired continues to be a serious problem in Texas. Often the elderly and mentally handicapped are treated in an appalling manner but the guilty parties go unpunished. The nursing home abuse attorneys with our Law Firm are committed to holding these offenders accountable. Nursing home abuse cases are challenging cases that require the attention of a qualified legal counsel to have any chance of success.

The traditional avenue of civil compensation is through an insurance company or, if that is unsuccessful, a civil lawsuit for medical malpractice. There are a few exceptions that commonly surround criminal behavior or possibly defective pharmaceutical lawsuits. The great majority of civil actions in nursing and home and mental facility abuse or wrongful death is through malpractice.

The nursing home industry, by-and-large, is quite powerful because frankly, there’s money in assisted living, a lot of money for the owners of these facilities, and their investors. Because the long-term and assisted care industry has a lot of money, there are plenty of liability insurance companies and high-profile defense attorneys to help them put injured plaintiffs or their surviving family members in their place when they try to legally recover rightful damages when negligence leads to injury or death.

Common Forms of Nursing Home Abuse
Nursing home abuse comes in many forms. In some cases, the abuse is carried out to a criminal extent such as physical assault or willful starvation. In these events, the responsible parties may face criminal charges in addition to civil action being taken against them. In most instances the abuse is some form of negligence such as:

Neglect.
Failure to provide proper or timely medication.
Failure to examine patients for detrimental conditions such as bedsores.
Failure to assist patients to the restroom.
Ignoring the valid requests for assistance from the patient.
The elderly and mentally impaired are often at the mercy of the medical staff who is supposed to look after them. Far too often the medical staff fails to provide the proper level of care and the patient suffers as a result.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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Why are Abuse Cases in Nursing Home and Mental Health Facilities so Complicated?

The primary challenge in such cases comes from the fact that the elderly or mentally disabled are often unable to tell their side of the story in an abuse case and the testimony of the alleged abusers can only be challenged by either physical evidence, or an unimpeachable “whistleblower” witness. Nursing home and mental care facility abuse cases are a form of medical malpractice. In the State of Texas, medical malpractice cases are highly influenced by tort reform measures. Texas lawmakers passed certain measures that insulate medical professionals from lawsuits. But in the attempt to eliminate frivolous lawsuits, tort reform has created a “donut hole” where legitimate cases against medical professionals are harder to win. Tort reform holds plaintiffs in medical malpractice lawsuits to a higher standard of proof in order to show the liability of the accused medical professional. And those same tort reform measures limit (or “cap) the value of compensation that can be awarded to any successful malpractice plaintiff

As a result, many attorneys have simply stopped taking nursing home and mental health facility abuse cases. But the abuse attorneys with our Law Firm are not afraid of a challenge and we still believe that those who have hurt the elderly and mentally impaired should be held fully accountable for their actions.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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The Common Causes of Elderly Wrongful Deaths

Wrongful deaths that result in the passing of an elderly loved one can happen in a variety of ways. Most of them arise from the negligent behavior of healthcare providers entrusted with caring for such vulnerable people. All-too-often we see tragic news stories about unneeded deaths involving nursing home abuse or neglect. Lack of proper care can also be a contributing factor, such as when bedsores form and cause infection leading to death. Additionally, your elderly loved ones may have suffered a wrongful death because of medical malpractice, in which the medical professional (doctor or nurse) responsible for their care can be held liable for their death, depending on the specifics of your parent or grandparent’s passing.

There are inherent difficulties of tort reform in medical malpractice suits and the damage caps that are now in place. This means that surviving family members could only stand to see a certain amount in compensation if their insurance claim or civil case produces a successful outcome. And yet, with such a cap in place, the compensation received through such a claim is often less than what will usually adequately cover the actual damages. An experienced wrongful death attorney with our Law Firm can assist a family seeking compensation for their loss through other possible legal routes, especially if more than one defendant (a third party) is identified through an attorney’s investigation. So the financial shortfall sometimes experienced by the malpractice benefit caps in the wake of a successful lawsuit might be supplemented through legitimate third party negligence lawsuits to produce a more reasonable total damage award, relative to the actual harm done to these vulnerable patients.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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Calculating Damages in a Wrongful Death Case

When specific financial losses have occurred, calculating fair compensation is relatively straightforward since a specific dollar amount is tied to the damages incurred. However, in a wrongful death case, the plaintiff’s lawyer must be able to justify the surviving family members’ (the plaintiff’s) amount of damages sought. Since emotional or mental stress, as well as pain and suffering (all known as “non-economic damages”), can often be quite subjective and subject to a certain amount of interpretation. Almost universally, it takes the knowledge and assistance of an experienced Texas wrongful death lawyer like those with our Law Firm to place a clear value on these damages and help a plaintiff justify the actual value of the harm they, and their recently deceased elderly loved one, has experienced to a civil judge and jury.

It is certain that the defendants in any wrongful death or medical malpractice suit involving a senior citizen will be disputed by the defendants’ insurance company and the attorneys who represent them. They will doubtlessly try and paint a much more caring environment provided by their assisted care client than it actually is. Then they will ask for complete relief, or a much smaller damage payment than the plaintiffs are seeking.

The courts do take physical pain and emotional stress into consideration when awarding compensation in regards to wrongful death, especially one that involves medical malpractice or elderly care. They also may take into account the pain and suffering of the surviving family members as well. It often requires the help of an experienced legal professional to ensure that a plaintiff is fairly compensated for their loss: either through fair negotiation or a civil trial should the latter be necessary.

If that relative died in a mental treatment facility, it is possible that relative may have been on the road to recovery; which means this loved one may have been released and again become a productive member of society. This means lost future earnings by this loved one may become a part of the wrongful death civil action against the treatment center.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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The Current State of the Assisted Care Industry: it is NOT all That Sympathetic

Choosing to admit your loved one into an assisted living center or a private mental treatment facility was probably an arduous decision that did not easily arrive. And as you investigated prospective centers, it is certain that you saw many that proudly pointed to happy residents who were active and being well-treated. It is certain that some “managed care centers” were little more than “image spin and marketing.”

Monthly fees at assisted living centers range from $1,500 – $7,500: with the majority falling in the $2500-$3500 range. Private mental facilities are even more expensive. That’s well over $30,000 a year for “average” care. And rare is the instance where more than half that amount is covered by Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, or some other reasonably-priced supplemental insurance (even if all are combined). The rest comes out of your family’s pocket. With so much money being spent, you expect the best care and service possible for your loved one. Many times you get it, or appear to. But just as often, when you lift the veil of secrecy in the nursing home and assisted care industry, you’ll find that you don’t always get what you pay for.

Usually, no more than 10% of assisted living center employees make more than $30,000 a year (on average). The rest serve as “assistants,” which is a nice way of saying “minimum wage employee.” These are the people who daily care for your loved one. Their jobs are not easy. That employee in Southern California who was charged in those three wrongful deaths was just such a “minimum-wage point person” who got tired of making $300 a week (with overtime) to perform a thankless and sometimes unpleasant job because he couldn’t find a better one. When he was on trial, he said, under cross-examination, “I just finally had it with emptying bedpans and giving sponge baths to all those old people who did nothing but complain all the time.”

Under such prevailing circumstances, is it any wonder that so many wrongful deaths occur in assisted living centers and private mental facilities? Like we said, what you are sold isn’t always what you get when the assisted care center, is either lax in its duty to care for your loved ones or the “suits” who are in charge cut corners in trying to squeeze every dime out of their facility. If their center’s negligence caused a wrongful death, they assume that their general chances were excellent that no one would listen to the complaints of these elderly or mentally impaired patients, or their families because they were covered by medical examiner inaction. Had it not been for a private investigation such reprehensible offenses would never have come to light.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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Malpractice and Wrongful Death Attorneys at our Texas Law Office Can Help You in the Event of a Suspicious Death of Your Elderly Loved One

Losing a loved one can be an emotionally trying time, especially if they were advanced in years and endured suffering at the end of their time in your lives. If your elderly loved one suffered a wrongful death due to the negligence of a person or entity, you likely have merit in seeking compensation for your loss. Through a wrongful death lawsuit (or accompanying medical malpractice or defective product suits), you could stand to be compensated for your loss, but you will also be working to ensure that the guilty defendant is held accountable for their negligent behavior – in both civil court and criminal court if the latter applies – so that a future death does not have to occur as a result of their poor or careless decisions.

The same inspiration applies if your loved one suffered a wrongful death while at a private mental facility or any other assisted living or long-term aftercare center. The bottom line is this relative was the victim of some sort of negligence. Once that negligence has been identified and proven, surviving family members deserve the fairest compensation amount the law allows, from every defendant!

We have a bit of free advice if your beloved grandparent, parent, elderly aunt or uncle has recently passed, and you feel uncomfortable about the circumstances surrounding the passing.

When it’s time to make that last visit with the center’s owners to pick-up your loved one’s belongings and sign the legal documents that end your relationship with the center, review them very carefully. And if you see anything resembling a liability release form, consider that to be unusual under the circumstances and ask if them to provide a copy for your attorney to review, prior to signing it. In fact, maybe you should have a wrongful death lawyer accompany you to this meeting to give you his view of the situation and also review everything you should sign. Remember, deception and fraud can extend the statute of limitations. But a good investigative and legal mind can usually tell you right away if he or she “smells something fishy.”

Even more-so: Before you speak with an insurance company, or accept even a single dollar of payment or compensation from any defendant, or sign anything, or attempt to file a lawsuit on your own, you must contact a competent lawyer. All of your opponents want you to accept a substandard settlement, so they can save their own money. Don’t be taken advantage of.

The wrongful death attorneys at our Law Office have well over 30 years of experience in litigating wrongful death cases arising from negligent elderly or other extended medical care centers. We can help you secure a fair settlement (or court judgment) for your loss, even if it might appear minimal or nonexistent at-a-glance, after your loved one’s passing.

We can tell you this. If you have a just case in which – upon investigation – proves negligence contributed to the sad demise of your beloved family member at an assisted care center, contact our Law Firm at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) to arrange a free legal consultation. We work on contingency and can apprise you of all your practical legal options. With experience in bringing cases against every major insurer in the state, and with a strong reputation among many defense attorneys, our Law Firm is well-positioned, highly-respected, and a firm that assisted care centers, their insurers and lawyers strongly wish to avoid.

We’ll use our reputation and experience to force these defendants to give you the justice you deserve for your loved one’s untimely passing. Your beloved relatives, grandparents or parents, elderly aunts, or uncles lived rich lives. Don’t allow them to be victimized in their last days by negligent people who took them from you too-soon.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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Speak With Our Texas Attorneys if a Loved one has Suffered Injury due to the Negligence or Neglect of a Nursing Professional

When people consider medical malpractice, they typically think of lawsuits filed against doctors or surgeons. But the truth is that virtually any medical professional can be guilty of medical malpractice and can end up as the cause for an insurance claim, or become a defendant in a lawsuit. In today’s world of modern medicine, nurses are given a much greater number of responsibilities and are becoming much more involved in all aspects of patient care.

While this is generally a good thing, it means that, when nurses make mistakes, the consequences of those mistakes are much more severe. Due to these changes in the medical world, nurse malpractice lawsuits are becoming quite common as opposed to 30 years ago when they weren’t nearly as prevalent. If you have been injured due to a nurse’s mistake, our attorneys can tell you what options are available to you and how you can seek compensation for your injuries.

Common Types of Nursing Malpractice Injuries
Any number of mistakes can result in nurse malpractice, but in general, as with all medical malpractice cases, nurses are guilty of malpractice if the care they provide fails to reach the standard set by other professionals in the nursing field. More specifically, this type of negligence commonly includes:

Failing to monitor a patient’s vital signs and report to doctors the changes in these signs.
Failing to collect test results in a timely manner so that proper treatment can be given.
Failing to report any changes in a patient’s condition to the physician attending the patient.
Committing some sort of mistake while administering medication or providing any other form of patient care.
Nursing malpractice can occur in a variety of patient care environments: in a hospital or in a privately-managed care facility such as a nursing home or retirement center; even visiting nurses who care for patients in their homes have been found to have committed malpractice.

What are the Parameters of Medical Malpractice and How do they Apply to Nurses?
All medical professionals owe their patients a high “legal duty.” In medical malpractice terms, a legal duty is described as a “standard of care.” Medical professionals owe their patients a certain responsibility of care that is proportionate to that of their peers. More simply-put, doctors, nurses, and all healthcare professionals must treat their patients as others in their same field would treat theirs. The healthcare industry falls into a category that calls for a very high standard of care (or “duty”) since medical professionals receive years of unique and highly-specialized training. They must undergo years of extensive education and rigorous certification in order to safely treat their patients.

This education is also supposed to make them sensitive to the physical and emotional needs of their patients. This is why society in-general expects medical professionals to not only be knowledgeable when it comes to their ability to properly and correctly diagnose, they must treat patients with sensitivity, without causing these vulnerable people further injury or discomfort. All caregivers are held to higher standards than people in other professions due to their specialized occupations. This leads to very lofty expectations of performance in the eyes of the general public as well as the law.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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Whether They Are Aware or Not, Medical Professionals Can Violate Their Legal Duty

Once a standard of care has been proven in a malpractice case, the next duty of the plaintiff is to clearly illustrate that the responsible medical professional(s) who violated that standard of care is specifically liable for your injuries. A simple example might find that a nurse breaches the standard of care if he or she erroneously gives a patient the wrong prescription or misreads vital data during surgery causing the operating surgeon to make a mistake. Nurses can misread a patient’s chart and cause an attending physician to make a mistake in treatment which brings further harm to the patient. Many of these same mistakes can occur in a managed care environment, causing mistakes in treatment that might lead to rapid wrongful death. And in a home care environment, a nurse might not properly manage the paperwork on which the overall treatment of that home-bound patient is determined; again leading to a case of malpractice when this wrong treatment catches up with the patient.

In any instance surrounding administering prescription drugs, any medical professional involved in this vital task must know to avoid taking negligent, incorrect steps in administering and recording the treatments given to the patient. Such a violation is reasonably considered to be outside of the norm for the standard of care. Sometimes, when a nurse makes a mistake, they may be the last to know.

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Very few people such as you have even the smallest amount of necessary legal acumen to understand, or even know, why a nurse or some other medical professional chose to do what they did. This is why expert medical witnesses must be sought-out and retained by your malpractice lawyer in order to determine whether or not a medical professional has violated the standard of care for their profession. These expert witnesses, usually doctors themselves must have extensive experience in the same fields of medicine as the nursing defendants in order to be beneficial to your medical malpractice claim.

Specialized witnesses are able to properly and accurately determine whether or not a standard of care was violated, by whom, to what degree, and in what context if more than one healthcare provider might be a defendant; especially if some sort of cover-up might apply to your malpractice lawsuit. We can help you locate these expert medical witnesses, either in Texas or across the U. S. who are lynchpins in proving your allegations of breach of the high medical standard of care: elemental to the success of your malpractice case. Since Texas has one of the highest concentrations of renowned medical professionals in the world, chances are we won’t have to look very far.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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Malpractice Lawsuits against Nurses can be Difficult without an Experienced Attorney

Medical malpractice lawsuits can often be the most challenging forms of personal injury or wrongful death cases you will find in Texas. One reason for this sad reality is the simple fact that the medical profession is by-definition, highly technical, sophisticated, and holds defendants to a higher standard of care (or duty). Another reason is that a number of liable parties responsible for the injury can cloud the issue of responsibility for your injuries. If malpractice is added atop the original injuries that necessitated your treatment; laying appropriate blame is a very intricate task for your investigative legal team. It can sometimes be likened to looking for a needle in a stack of needles. These two reasons alone can help you understand why injured victims have no better than a minuscule chance of winning a Texas medical malpractice claim without the legal help of an experienced Bexar County malpractice injury attorney.

A skilled lawyer knows how to locate the perfect medical experts to stringently review your treatment records and determine whether your malpractice lawsuit is justified. They are also very adept at detecting medical records that may have been altered by someone, which is an immediate tipoff that a case of nursing malpractice might be at the bottom of your injuries. If nothing else, altering of medical records is a felony. Why would a medical professional risk going to jail for altering medical records unless some sort of malpractice cover-up was involved? Our medical experts can also help determine the degree of responsibility on the part of everyone who was involved in your medical care. Our experienced medical malpractice attorneys have the means and the skill to fold that thorough investigation into your case and apply this substantial evidence into an effective and compelling legal strategy for you.

With over 30 years of experience in personal injury, malpractice, and wrongful death law, our Law Firm can help you identify all responsible defendants in your malpractice suit so that you can successfully ask for fair compensation from them for their negligent behavior that made your injury even more painful. Our Law Firm can also work to make certain their careless actions will not be repeated, and harm some other unsuspecting, trusting patient.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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It is Far From Easy Proving Medical Malpractice in Texas: but it IS Done Every Day

Negligent medical professionals believe that they owe you nothing unless you legally compel them to pay you proper compensation by way of a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit. In order to force those liable for your injuries to pay you this fair compensation, your legal advocate must build a compelling case; using strong and substantial evidence that forces all liable parties to accept responsibility by proving the parts they played within the following guidelines:

A malpractice victim bears the burden of proof in a civil lawsuit to recover damages in Texas. Simply put, you the victim (and your legal counsel) must prove through a “preponderance of the evidence” that a medical defendant caused your injury. It is the plaintiff/victim’s responsibility to seek legal action against that liable party. You can’t simply wait around to be reimbursed for your injury from those who were negligent in your care out of the goodness of their heart. If you don’t have a solid case, defendants will relentlessly chip away at it. There is a specific sequence of things you must prove in order to realize the success you wish for in a malpractice lawsuit or insurance claim.

A High Plaintiff “Burden of Proof” for so High a Medical Professional’s Legal Duty
As a plaintiff, your Texas medical malpractice lawyer must effectively prove – in this case – that a nurse’s negligence was the cause of your additional injury or illness in a malpractice case. Even if some of those injuries are all-too-apparent, defense attorneys and insurance companies will demand specific and irrefutable proof that your injuries were actually sustained through the specific negligence of a medical professional. This is where the forensic skill of your investigators and medical experts comes into play as they provide the very proof of the defendant’s demand.

You must prove this guilt of negligent treatment beyond a shadow of a doubt. So, fortified by your experts’ specialized knowledge, you and your experienced lawyer are able to clearly prove to a jury how an injury may have been sustained due to medical negligence by a nurse in a hospital, managed care center, or in your home. Your attorney can also work to convince those jury members that this series of events that led to your further injury or illness did indeed happen and that you should be fairly compensated for their malfeasance. If your case is really strong, the chances of negotiating a reasonable settlement with the guilty defendants grow: which means that maybe an expensive civil trial can be avoided.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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Damage Caps and the Challenges you Face from Malpractice Insurance Companies

There is a limit to the amount of damages that can be awarded in any single Texas malpractice lawsuit. Medical malpractice “damage caps” mean that if your injuries are disastrous or if they produce permanent injury (and untold years of expensive supplemental care) you might not receive truly reflective compensation for your malpractice-related pain and suffering, medical bills, lost wages, and other appropriate damages. You have the insurance special interests, along with THEIR lobbyists and recent tort reform legislation in Austin to thank for that.

Because of intense pressure from all of those special parties, the legislature passed several laws. These tort-reform laws have clearly tilted the medical malpractice playing field in their favor. Now, with very few exceptions, there are now damage award caps in medical malpractice civil cases. “Non-economic damages” (again, pain, suffering, lost future income) are capped at $250,000. Economic damages (the actual cost of your medical bills as a result of the malpractice) must be actual and to-the penny.

Before tort reform, anyone could sue any doctor, hospital, CAT scan tech, or other licensed medical professionals for as much as they wanted and often collected unreasonable damage amounts. When the medical professional was found to be guilty of negligence, juries would levy huge damage awards. Now we understand that over the years, many unscrupulous attorneys and their clients took advantage of what they saw was a license to print money. So yes, a certain amount of tort reform appeared necessary in a lot of instances. The legislature failed to adequately address the problem when the insurance and medical lobbies began pressuring our lawmakers in Austin. So the end-result now gives us a series of malpractice laws that benefit Texas malpractice insurers: but at the expense of both the healthcare providers they serve and those who have legitimate malpractice claims. Today, it’s much more difficult for malpractice victims to recover true value, in any single lawsuit or insurance claim, of their injuries, pain, suffering, and lost wages.

That’s why it’s so important for your malpractice lawyer to be adept at investigating all facets of alleged malpractice. For if other caregivers are responsible for those injuries, more than one injury claim (and lawsuit) can be sought. Even with this tort reform, healthcare professionals are also getting screwed by their insurers. Because tort reform has lowered the amount of money their insurance companies are paying out. But when this tort reform became state law – on-average – malpractice premiums have increased by more than one-third. How can the insurance companies increase their rates that much if they’re paying out much less than they were ten years ago? We’ll let you figure that out but the answer is patently obvious to anyone who is over eight years old.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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The Challenges in Winning Nursing Malpractice Injury Lawsuits

Filing a lawsuit against a nurse, or any licensed healthcare professional is extremely complex, and a non-attorney has almost no chance of success. This is due to a number of hurdles that the plaintiff must overcome. The first comes from the simple fact that the medical field is complicated. Most patients (and most jury members) have very little knowledge of the modern medical world, and it can be almost impossible for a non-attorney to prove that he or she was the victim of negligence. You need an attorney who is familiar with medical issues, and who has experience convincing juries of a medical professional’s negligence. In many cases, this requires testimony from your expert witnesses who helped investigate your case, to argue that the defendant’s conduct does not meet the high standards of care that are expected of medical professionals in the defendant’s field. Our lawyers can ensure that you have the expert witnesses needed to build a strong case. We also speak the jury’s language, so we can explain even complex medical issues in a way that a jury can understand. In other words, we make sure that the jury knows what really happened to you and why you are in need of compensation.

The second major hurdle you will have to face is the malpractice insurers themselves. Damage caps have emboldened many of them to offer substandard settlement offers because they are protected from high payouts. These insurance companies use adjusters and excellent attorneys to help build a sturdy defense wall to shield their medical clients. And they are very good at what they do, especially if you choose to represent yourself or hire an inexperienced attorney who claims he can do the job for a smaller percentage of your damage award. Medical malpractice cases are held to a very strict standard of proof (another reason why expert witnesses are so vital), and if you or your inexperienced attorney do not know how to present your case in such a way as to meet these standards of proof, you will walk away empty-handed.

In the final analysis, an experienced malpractice attorney who can investigate your allegations and call on the right medical experts to assist in that investigation and give testimony on your behalf presents the most solid case. Armed with that, your experienced Bexar County medical malpractice lawyer can aggressively negotiate the most reasonable compensation settlement possible. The attorneys at our Law Offices have over 30 years of experience at effective negotiating reasonable settlements from insurance companies. Our reputation for tenacity on our clients’ behalf, coupled with solid cases, often causes these insurance companies to offer the reasonable settlement our clients were looking for all along.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim, and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll-free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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Let the Nursing Malpractice Injury Lawyers at our Texas Law Office Help You Seek Justice

There are many malpractice attorneys in South Central Texas. How can you decide which one is right to handle your case? our respected malpractice attorneys recommend interviewing at least two or three attorneys before choosing the lawyer that you want to hire. Ask each one about his track record for settling and litigating malpractice insurance claims and cases. Find out what each attorney thinks the strengths and weaknesses of your case are. See if the lawyers can provide you with the names of former clients whose cases were similar to yours. Ask if you can contact them. And then reach out to them and ask the same question you asked the prospective attorney. If you do all of these things to your satisfaction, then you’ll be able to hire an attorney whose experience in handling cases as yours gives you confidence, as well as peace of mind that this is the lawyer you can trust with your case.

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The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office are well known for investigating, litigating, and successfully resolving nursing malpractice cases. We understand the changes enacted by the recent tort reform, and we know how to build a strong case in order to hold nurses and other medical professionals responsible for their negligence.

We have filed successful claims against almost every insurance carrier in the state, and their adjusters and defense lawyers know how successful our lawyers have been. They typically cooperate fully with our settlement demands so that they do not have to face us in court. But if taking a case to trial is what it takes to get you the settlement you need, we are ready, willing, and able. We will do everything we can to help you get back on your feet. So if you have been the victim of nursing malpractice, contact our office today for a free initial consultation.

Put our years of experience to work for you. If you want to know what your rights are, how to proceed with your claim and how much compensation you can secure from your malpractice injury case. Call our Law Firm now at 1(800) 862-1260 (toll free) for a free consultation and find out how we can help you. The legal professionals at our Texas Law Office will help you seek the justice you deserve and the settlement you need.

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