Serious injury or death sometimes occurs as a result of medical, hospital or surgical error. The law refers to "medical malpractice" as the negligence of a medical provider. Most often, the medical provider is a physician, but can also be a nurse or other provider.
Lacy Katzen LLP has successfully represented victims of medical malpractice for more than 50 years through meticulous analysis of potential claims and the highest dedication to the preparation of each case.
Attorney Peter T. Rodgers, Esq. is listed in Best Lawyers in America in the field of medical malpractice.
Medical malpractice claims are among the most difficult claims to provide at trial. In order to succeed with a medical malpractice claim, you must prove that the doctor or other health care provider failed to follow the medical standard of care and that injury or death was proximately caused by the departure or failure to follow the medical standard of care. Proving a failure to follow the standard of care but failing to prove causation will result in a defense verdict. Both elements require expert medical proof to successfully prosecute a medical malpractice claim.
In accepting a medical malpractice case, Lacy Katzen LLP commits it resources, talent and experience on behalf of its clients in this most challenging area of the law.
Examples of medical, hospital and surgical malpractice cases handled by Lacy Katzen LLP include:
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Failure to timely and correctly diagnose serious illness including cancer, infectious disease and cardiac disease;
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Failure to accurately interpret diagnostic testing;
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Failure to timely treat life threatening conditions such as pulmonary embolism, aortic aneurysm and cardiac arrest;
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Emergency medical failures involving the failure to promptly assess airway, breathing and circulation in a trauma patient;
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Failure to recognize the impact of certain medications;
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Failure to properly monitor patients following medical procedures for changes in condition;
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Serious burns caused during surgery;
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Neurological damage caused in surgery due to improper placement of the patient or the improper use of retraction;
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Vascular damage caused during surgery as a result of the failure to protect vessels in proximity to the operative field;
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Failure to recognize tracheal necrosis during post surgical intubation;
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Failure to recognize shoulder dystocia and the failure to perform maneuvers in order to mitigate traction leading to neurological injury
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