Malpractice occurs when a healthcare provider fails to deliver the level of care that is keeping with accepted practices and procedures. It happens when a doctor, nurse or technician does something or fails to do something that is important to a patient’s good care.

Any patient injured by medical negligence can bring a lawsuit and make a claim for pain and suffering, loss wages and medical expenses. If the injuries are severe, permanent and disabling, the patient’s family might also have a claim.

If the patient dies because of malpractice, the patient’s family can bring a claim, depending upon many factors. When a claim for death is made, the recovery generally is based on pain and suffering, medical expenses, and loss of estate.

Will Levin Papantonio Accept My Case

Our attorneys review and accepts medical malpractice cases of every size, whether in the Pensacola area or nationwide. No case is too big or too small.

The one thing we can assure you is that we will take your call, provide you an absolutely free consult, discuss with you the facts and issues of your case, and tell you whether we can help you. If not, we will try to get you to someone who can.

There is no easy answer to this question because it depends on several factors, such as where the negligence occurred. For example, if the malpractice case occurred in Pensacola, Florida, a two-year statute of limitations applies. This means the lawsuit must be filed within two years from the time the patient, family member, or guardian knew or should have known the injury was caused by a medical error.

Florida also has a “statute of repose” law. This means you can’t sue a health care provider more than four years after the malpractice occurs unless there is fraud, misrepresentation, or concealment. Florida has one significant exception to this law. It is called “Tony’s law”.

Healthcare errors occur in many different situations. The following are just a few examples of where we often see problems. Click on the links below for additional information.

1. Acute Abdomen/Surgical Abdomen
2. Aspiration Pneumonitis/Mendelson’s Syndrome
3. Bacterial Meningitis/Spinal Meningitis
4. Beta Strep Testing for pregnant women
5. Birth Injuries
6. Breast Cancer
7. Fetal Anoxic Brain Injury/Faulty Fetal Heart Monitoring
8. Gastric Bypass Surgery/ Roux-En-Y Procedure/Stomach Stapling
9. Hypertensive Crisis
10. Non-Small Cell Carcinoma/Lung Cancer
11. Rapid Assays

For the last twenty years, healthcare has been taken over by corporations. Doctors are no longer in a position to control the care patients receive, but instead doctors must take orders from large corporations that are more concerned with profit than patient care and safety.

Medical care is now being handled like any huge business, with the hospital corporations analyzing every treatment decision with its shareholders in mind. Many times conflicts arise, and the hospital corporations decide to use drugs and medical devices that are not as good as others available on the market. The result has been a startling rise in negligence.