Plantation Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Experienced Medical Malpractice Lawyers for Residents and Families in Plantation, FL

While doctors and other healthcare providers generally shouldn’t make mistakes, the data show that medical mistakes are alarmingly common. In fact, they are among the leading causes of death in the United States. Of course, even when medical mistakes aren’t fatal, they can have life-altering consequences. If you are coping with the consequences of a serious medical mistake, our Plantation medical malpractice lawyers can help.

When doctors and other healthcare providers make mistakes, they can—and should—be held accountable. Establishing accountability involves filing a medical malpractice claim. Florida’s medical malpractice laws establish clear duties for healthcare providers, and they provide patients and families with clear legal rights when providers fail to do what is required.

Medical Malpractice Cases We Handle

Our lawyers handle all types of medical malpractice claims on behalf of Plantation residents and their families. If you have questions or concerns about any of the following, we strongly encourage you to contact us for a free consultation:

Anesthesia Malpractice

From severe pain to anesthesia awareness, anesthesia errors can have varying consequences. Common errors include administering too little or too much anesthetic, using the wrong type of anesthetic, and failing to monitor patients once they have been anesthetized. Failure to properly administer oxygen during anesthesia and other medical failures can have serious and lasting consequences as well.

Diagnostic Errors

Diagnostic errors are among the most common forms of medical malpractice. Our Plantation medical malpractice lawyers regularly handle cases involving incorrect diagnoses, delayed diagnoses, and failure to diagnose. Failure to order necessary tests, improperly interpreting test results, and failing to identify health concerns in X-ray and MRI scans are all common factors in these cases.

Labor, Delivery and NICU Malpractice

Medical malpractice during labor or delivery can present serious health risks for both the mother and the baby. Neonatal malpractice can have tragic and life-altering consequences for newborns as well. Our lawyers handle cases involving all types of birth injuries in Plantation.

Medical Administration Errors

In many cases, medical mistakes result from administration errors. Failing to schedule necessary medical procedures, mixing up patients’ records, and performing negligent triage are all issues that can (and do) lead to adverse patient outcomes. Our Plantation medical malpractice lawyers regularly handle these types of cases as well.

Medication Errors

Along with diagnostic errors, medication errors are another extremely common form of medical malpractice. Overdosing, underdosing, and prescribing or administering the wrong medication can all present serious—and in some cases fatal—health risks. If you need help recovering from the effects of a medication error, we encourage you to contact us right away.

Neurology Malpractice

Neurology malpractice frequently has life-altering or life-threatening consequences. When patients present with neurological damage, prompt and effective treatment can be essential for mitigating the patient’s long-term risks—if not saving the patient’s life. Sadly, far too often, neurologists fail to do what is necessary to protect their patients from unnecessary outcomes.

Oncology Malpractice

Oncology malpractice will frequently have life-altering or life-threatening consequences as well. Along with failure to timely diagnose cancer, failure to properly treat cancer and manage the risks associated with treatment can lead to unnecessary pain, complications and premature death. If you or a loved one has received substandard cancer treatment in a Plantation medical facility, our lawyers can take appropriate legal action on your (or your family’s) behalf.

Surgical Malpractice

Surgical mistakes are another alarmingly common type of medical malpractice. These include mistakes ranging from causing internal injuries during surgery to performing surgical procedures on the wrong patient or on the wrong side of the body. These mistakes often have devastating effects, and they can leave patients and their families facing long and difficult roads to recovery.

Treatment Errors

Even when surgery isn’t necessary, errors during treatment can still have life-altering or life-threatening effects. These errors range from recommending unnecessary or unsafe treatment modalities or medical devices to causing infections and other complications.

Other Specialist Malpractice

Along with neurology and oncology cases, we handle medical malpractice cases involving all other areas of medical specialization as well. If you have concerns about the care you or a loved one received from a cardiologist, dermatologist, gastroenterologist, gynecologist, ophthalmologist, orthopedist, psychiatrist, urologist or any other specialist, we invite you to get in touch to discuss what our Plantation medical malpractice lawyers can do to help.

Why It Is Important to Hold Healthcare Providers Accountable for Medical Malpractice

If you suspect that any form of substandard care may be to blame for your medical condition—or for a loved one’s medical condition or untimely death—it is important that you speak with a lawyer about your legal rights. Not only can recovering from a serious medical mistake prove incredibly expensive, but medical malpractice can impact patients’ and family members’ lives in countless other ways as well. Patients and families are entitled to just compensation for all of these impacts under Florida law.

This means that if you or a loved one has suffered due to a serious medical mistake, our Plantation medical malpractice lawyers can seek to recover just compensation for your:

• Medical costs resulting from your (or your loved one’s) healthcare provider’s mistake
• Other out-of-pocket costs (including prescriptions, medical supplies, and funeral and interment costs in cases of wrongful death)
• Loss of income and benefits
• Permanent scarring and disfigurement
• Pain, suffering and emotional trauma
• Loss of consortium, companionship, services and support
• Loss of enjoyment of life

Depending on the circumstances, the financial compensation available to patients and families in Florida medical malpractice cases can range from tens of thousands to millions of dollars. When you schedule a free consultation at LCTR, our Plantation medical malpractice lawyers will provide a comprehensive assessment of your legal rights so that you can make informed decisions about your next steps.

Schedule a Free Consultation with Our Plantation Medical Malpractice Lawyers Today

If you need to know more about filing a medical malpractice claim in Plantation, we invite you to get in touch. Please call 954-761-2425 or contact us online to schedule a free consultation today.