When you file a medical malpractice lawsuit, you must prove that the medical professional was negligent to win your case. The same test to establish negligence that applies in every personal injury case will be used to determine whether the doctor committed medical malpractice. If you can establish each of these four elements, you can […]
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In a medical malpractice case, you are seeking financial compensation from the doctor who injured you with their carelessness. You are not necessarily seeking to have the doctor punished or put in jail. Whether they can keep their license is a matter between them and their medical board. The fact that you are seeking damages
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Medical malpractice lawsuits are among the most difficult types of personal injury cases. Still, you can and should take legal action when you have been injured by the negligent actions of a medical professional. Nevertheless, you should expect to be involved in a lengthy legal process. Exactly how long your case may take depends on
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans die from medical errors, while many more people suffer serious injuries. If you can pinpoint that medical negligence caused your condition, you can recover substantial compensation if you can prove malpractice. Before you reach that point, you must go through a lengthy and potentially laborious legal process with
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There are numerous stages in the health care process when a medical professional should diagnose your condition correctly. If you are presenting at the emergency room with symptoms of a health problem, it is crucial that the attending physician can promptly diagnose the problem. The same thing goes when you see your treating physician at
Intersection accidents usually have a higher rate of fatalities and serious injuries than other types of motor vehicle crashes. In intersection crashes, the cars strike each other at a perpendicular angle. One driver may suffer injuries that are consistent with those that they may sustain in a head-on crash because the impact is largely similar.
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If you have suffered an injury in an Uber or Lyft accident, you may be entitled to financial compensation for your injuries. Your compensation can come from a number of different sources If you were an Uber or Lyft passenger, you can hold one or both of the drivers of the vehicles involved in the
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In any car accident case, a negligent party will owe victims money. In most accidents, a driver did something wrong when they failed to exercise due care or follow traffic laws. There are very few circumstances in which the owner of the car, rather than the driver, does something that negligently causes an accident, although
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One of the challenges that you face in any type of personal injury case is knowing how much to seek in a settlement or jury award. You can be certain that the insurance company has this information and knows the value of your case down to practically the dollar. Although this calculation is important in
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Wrongful death laws allow a deceased person’s family members to file legal action so they can seek compensation for the loss of their loved one. To file a claim, survivors must first prove that someone else was to blame for the accident to be in a position to receive compensation for their loss. Then, they
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