Medical Negligence (Malpractice)

According to the National Institutes of Health ( a government agency), between 44,000 and 98,000 people die each year as a result of medical negligence in hospitals. That number doesn't even include the number of people who are injured — or the people who are injured or who die in nursing homes or other medical places. In 2007, the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality concluded that the number may be far worse---as many 300,000 people dying each year because of medical errors.

Medical malpractice claims aren't about punishing hard-working doctors and nurses for mistakes.  These claims involve tragic errors that fall below the rules that doctors, nurse and hospitals have agreed to follow. Birth injuries, misdiagnosis, prescription errors, failure to diagnose cancer — medical malpractice has devastating, life-changing effects on patients and their families.

These cases require that the damage be large, because medical negligence cases are very expensive to handle. It is very common for our law firm to spend at least $25,000 and upwards of $100,000 of our own money (not counting out time) for each case.

If people have given you the idea that it is very simple to do these cases, that it is easy money and that anyone can do it, then they have led you down the wrong path. The insurance industry has misled the public to think that people are getting something for nothing. Nothing can be further from the truth. In order to qualify in most instances, your lives have to be in pieces. Who would wish that on anyone? And to then have the insurance industry call you a sponge?

The only time that we can consider a claim when the harms and losses are not as catastrophic is when the medical error is obvious, as in cases where a surgeon leaves a foreign object in your body. In those cases, we may be able to keep the cost down, allowing you to recover enough money to justify the time and emotional involvement.

If you or a loved one has been the victim of medical malpractice, contact us today for a free initial consultation.

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Working Hard to Resolve Your Medical Malpractice Case 

Martin Diaz has been handling medical negligence (also called medical malpractice) cases for more than 20 years. The majority of our cases involve people who are permanently disabled, people who are dying, and the families of those lost to wrongful death as a result of medical negligence or malpractice. 

We represent people in a broad range of medical malpractice cases such as:

• Failure to diagnose cancer
• Emergency room errors
• Avoidable or misdiagnosed infections
• Surgical errors
• Prescription errors
• Nursing home abuse or neglect
• Birth Injuries

Cases involving birth injuries or trauma during birth can result in permanent disabilities for children who have just begun life. Even the least serious of these has a devastating impact on that child, his or her parents, and even extended families. These cases are extremely difficult and tragic.

Contact us today for a free initial consultation with an experienced and caring attorney.