Lancaster Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Potential Compensation for Medical Malpractice Damages Potential

Types of compensation for medical malpractice damages can include the recovery of medical expenses, rehabilitation costs, lost wages, compensation for diminished capacity, and pain and suffering.

PARRIS trial lawyers have a demonstrated record of success, with over $1.4 billion won since the firm was founded in 1985. If you have been a victim of medical malpractice or negligence, contact us as soon as possible because there are strict time periods in California under which an injured patient can pursue a malpractice lawsuit against the negligent party. Call us today to speak with us for free. We will carefully evaluate your case and explain your legal options to provide you with the best assistance possible.

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

When seeking medical care in times of illness, poor health, or injury, you put your trust in the skill and professionalism of your medical providers. Unfortunately, it is all too common for medical providers to fail you and for negligence to result. Medical negligence occurs when a doctor, nurse, surgeon, or other medical provider fails to meet a reasonable and accepted standard of care in the medical community. When medical malpractice results in injury or death, victims and their families can be burdened with astronomical medical costs and unnecessary suffering. If you feel that you or a loved one has been a victim of medical malpractice, contact PARRIS Law Firm today for a free case evaluation. Our attorneys take all of our medical malpractice cases on contingency, which means that you pay no fees until we win your case.

COMMON MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CLAIMS CAN INCLUDE:

• Missed Diagnosis: failing to timely diagnose, misreading test results, inaccurate diagnosis, refusing to offer the proper treatment, ignoring a patient, ordering improper tests, failing to consult medical history.
• Surgery Errors: Wrong site surgery, removing the wrong organ, surgical staple injuries, plastic surgery mistakes, leaving an item in the body, site injuries, performing unnecessary surgery, negligent preparation for surgery, wrongful death caused by surgery
• Birth and Infant Injuries: Negligence during a baby’s delivery, delayed c-sections, improperly managed labor and delivery, failure to treat fetal distress, negligent fetal monitoring
• Medication Errors: prescribing drugs that cause allergies, prescribing the wrong dose, improperly mixing different prescription drugs, prescribing the wrong drug, medication toxicity
• Medical Device Errors: misuse of medical device, design defects, inadequate warnings on device
• Anesthesia: administering the wrong drug or dosage, failing to act on vital sign changes, using faulty equipment
• Post-operative Negligence: failure to monitor for surgical complications, causing post-operative infections, and failure to give proper post-operative instructions