Medical Malpractice Lawyer Every year in the United States, hundreds of women die during pregnancy or in the year after pregnancy. However, even more alarming is the fact that Black women in the United States are almost three times more likely to die during pregnancy or delivery than White women. This is due to multiple [...]
Medical Malpractice Lawyer Cleveland OH In July 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) proposed a rule change to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) that, if adopted, would affect thousands of Americans who are injured by a vaccine. Traditionally, the national vaccine injury program provided compensation to individuals injured as [...]
Medical Malpractice Lawyer Cleveland, OH For a medical malpractice lawyer, radiology malpractice claims typically arise from common medical errors that result in delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis. The mistakes include misinterpretation of films, failure to report incidental findings, miscommunication of critical results, failure correlate findings to clinical symptoms or failure to compare current films to previous [...]
Cleveland Medical Malpractice Attorneys As a medical malpractice lawyer, I am frequently tasked with determining the statute of limitations that applies to potential client’s medical malpractice claim. It seems like a simple question that should have a simple answer. However, often it doesn’t. Generally speaking, the statute of limitations applicable to medical malpractice cases in [...]
Medical Malpractice Lawyer Cleveland, OH As a medical malpractice lawyer in Cleveland, OH with over thirty years of experience, I have personally reviewed thousands and thousands of medical charts in the course of investigating claims of medical negligence, hospital negligence, chiropractor negligence, podiatrist negligence, pharmacy negligence, nursing home neglect and abuse, and nursing negligence. The [...]
Medical Malpractice Lawyer Cleveland, OH As a medical malpractice lawyer Cleveland, OH, I routinely review cases involving delayed diagnosis and delayed treatment. The following is the discussion of the analysis that goes into deciding whether or not a provable case of medical negligence exists when a patient’s condition is not timely diagnosed or treated and [...]
Medical Malpractice For a medical malpractice lawyer, time limits are a key threshold consideration. Under Ohio law, the following cases are considered “medical claims” subject to a one-year statute of limitations: medical negligence, medical malpractice, hospital negligence, nursing negligence, nursing home abuse, nursing home neglect, chiropractor negligence, podiatrist negligence, dental malpractice, and pharmacy errors. The [...]
Ohio Medical Negligence Lawyers Wrong site surgeries are all too common despite efforts to minimize their occurrence through a standardized “time out” before surgery. The use of a timeout to identify the patient by name, date of birth, procedure, anatomy (including marking the site and side if applicable), patient position, relevant radiology result, antibiotic administration [...]
Cleveland Wrongful Death Lawyers Under Ohio law, the coroner’s verdict creates a rebuttable presumption that establishes the medically accepted manner and mode of death for legal purposes. In most instances, however, an autopsy is not performed, so no formal coroner’s verdict is issued. In those cases, the Death Certificate establishes the formal cause of death. [...]
Ohio Medical Negligence Lawyers As medical malpractice lawyers, we anticipate many inquiries about wrongful death claims arising out of the COVID-19 crisis. This is a new area for medical negligence attorneys, but some general principles apply. First, significant damages must exist. If an individual contracts COVID-19 and has a full and complete recovery, I suspect [...]
