Medical Malpractice
Medical malpractice is the delivery of substandard care or services by a doctor, hospital, pharmacist, nurse or other health care provider that results in provable injury to the patient. The damages may be through negligence, ignorance (when the provider should have known), or intentional wrongdoing in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and other health care related activity (e.g. equipment failure and communication failure).

Generally, in order to prove medical malpractice, the plaintiff must produce testimony from an expert witness. To qualify as an expert witness against a physician, the witness must be also be a physician with board certification and have substantial experience relevant to the claim.

The expert testimony must relate to the acceptable standard of care that applied to the specific act or conduct that is claimed to be malpractice. The testimony must also show that the defendant did not meet that standard. The defendant can produce his/her own expert to counter the testimony by the plaintiff's expert witness.

As part of our responsibility to the plaintiff, Thurlow & Associates, P.C. has medical advisors on staff to make sure that we get the best expert representation for our clients.

The personal injury attorneys at Thurlow & Associates, P.C. are very experienced in medical malpractice lawsuits. As in all personal injury cases, time is of the essence.

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