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Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

Attorneys have a fiduciary responsibilities to their clients and they must act with diligence, skill and care. However, like all professionals attorneys make mistakes.

Every mistake made by an attorney can be considered malpractice. To prove legal malpractice, an victim must prove the breach of duty, duty, causation and damage. Let's review each of these elements.

Duty-Free

Medical professionals and doctors swear an oath to apply their expertise and knowledge to cure patients, not causing further harm. A patient's legal right to receive compensation for injuries resulting from medical malpractice hinges on the notion of duty of care. Your attorney can determine if your doctor's actions violated the duty to care and if these breaches resulted in your injury or illness.

Your lawyer must prove that the medical professional you hired owed the fiduciary obligation to act with reasonable skill and care. Proving that this relationship existed may require evidence such as your records of your doctor-patient relationship or eyewitness testimony, as well as expert testimony from doctors who have similar experience, education and training.

Your lawyer will also need to prove that the medical professional violated their duty of caring by not adhering to the accepted standards in their field. This is usually called negligence. Your attorney will compare the actions of the defendant to what a reasonable person would do in a similar situation.

Finally, your lawyer must prove that the defendant's breach of duty directly resulted in your loss or injury. This is referred to as causation. Your attorney will rely on evidence such as your doctor-patient documents, witness statements, and expert testimony to demonstrate that the defendant's inability to meet the standard of care in your case was the direct cause of your injury or loss.

Breach

A doctor is required to perform a duty of care to his patients which reflects professional medical standards. If a doctor does not live up to those standards and fails to do so results in injury, then negligence and medical malpractice might occur. Expert evidence from medical professionals who have the same training, certifications, skills and experience can help determine the quality of care for a specific situation. State and federal laws, as well as guidelines from the institute, help define what doctors are required to do for certain kinds of patients.

To win a malpractice case the case must be proved that the doctor violated his or duty of care and that this breach was the direct cause of injury. In legal terms, this is referred to as the causation factor and it is vital that it is established. If a doctor has to conduct an x-ray examination of an injured arm, they must put the arm in a casting and correctly set it. If the doctor did not complete the procedure and the patient was left with a permanent loss of the use of the arm, then malpractice may have occurred.

Causation

Attorney malpractice claims rely on evidence that the attorney's mistakes caused financial losses to the client. For example the lawyer fails to file a lawsuit within the statute of limitations, leading to the case being lost forever the person who was injured can bring legal malpractice actions.

It is important to understand that not all errors made by lawyers are a sign of malpractice. Mistakes in strategy and planning do not typically constitute malpractice, and attorneys have lots of freedom to make judgment calls as long as they are reasonable.

The law also allows lawyers an enormous amount of discretion to not conduct discovery on behalf of their clients provided that the decision was not arbitrary or a result of negligence. The failure to discover crucial documents or facts, such as medical reports or witness statements can be a case of legal malpractice. Other examples of malpractice include a failure to add certain claims or defendants such as omitting to submit a survival count in a case of wrongful death or the consistent and persistent failure to communicate with clients.

It is also important to consider the fact that the plaintiff has to prove that if not the lawyer's negligence, they could have won their case. Otherwise, the plaintiff's claim for malpractice will be rejected. This requirement makes bringing legal malpractice claims difficult. For this reason, it's essential to choose an experienced attorney to represent you.

Damages

To prevail in a legal malpractice lawsuit a plaintiff must demonstrate actual financial losses incurred by an attorney's actions. This must be shown in a lawsuit through evidence like expert testimony, correspondence between the client and attorney as well as billing records and other records. In addition the plaintiff has to prove that a reasonable lawyer could have avoided the harm that was caused by the negligence of the attorney. This is known as proximate causation.

Malpractice can occur in many different ways. Some of the most common types of malpractice include: failing to adhere to a deadline, which includes the statute of limitations, failure to perform a conflict check or other due diligence check on a case, improperly applying law to a client's circumstance, breaching a fiduciary duty (i.e. Commingling funds from a trust account with an attorney's own accounts as well as not communicating with the client are all examples of malpractice.

Medical malpractice suits typically involve claims for compensation damages. These compensations compensate the victim for out-of pocket expenses and expenses such as hospital and medical bills, costs of equipment to aid recovery, and lost wages. Additionally, victims may be able to claim non-economic damages like pain and suffering or loss of enjoyment life, and emotional stress.

Legal malpractice cases typically involve claims for compensatory as well as punitive damages. The former compensates the victim for the losses caused by the negligence of the attorney, while the latter is designed to deter future malpractice lawsuit by the defendant.

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