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Medical Malpractice Lawyers
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
800-597-9585
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Thousands of people in the United States die each year as the result of medical error. According to a comprehensive and highly regarded hospital study by Harvard University, more than 1 million
people suffer injuries each year as a result of mistakes
caused by doctors, anesthesiologists, residents, nurses, technicians and
malfunctioning medical devices. Medical malpractice also occurs in other settings,
such as doctor’s offices or nursing homes. Most of the victims never know
their injury was due to medical error. And most never sue.
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But investigations into such personal injury cases often reveal medical malpractice on the part of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals. And many lead to successful medical malpractice lawsuits. Whether failure to timely diagnose disease (see The Welteroth Case), inattention to patients (Caruso, Ebel, Gallagher) or birth injuries due to negligence (Vlasny), the results are often catastrophic. Patients suffer injuries ranging from birth defects to brain damage to spinal cord injuries. In many cases, the patient dies. (See all news articles)
If you or a loved were the victim of medical malpractice, you may want to contact a medical malpractice attorney for a free evaluation of your case.
Among the more common instances of medical malpracticeis the fact that many people contract infections while being hospitalized. A survey of Pennsylvania hospitals released in November 2006 showed that 19,154 patients were infected in a hospital in 2005 and that 2,478 died after contracting infections during their care. (Click here to learn more about hospital infections.) And an average of more than one person every day in the United States dies from a medication error.
Medical malpractice is common, particularly in hospitals. It can occur during various stages of care, during something as complicated as surgery or as simple as the prescribing of drugs. In fact, a study by the Institutes of Medicine recently found that medication errors occur on average once a day to every hospital patient, resulting in serious injuries and thousands of patient deaths. (See article.)
Kline & Specter, P.C., has some 30 highly trained attorneys and a wealth of experience in medical malpractice lawsuits. Several of the firm's lawyers are also skilled physicians (see The Doctor/Lawyer Team). The firm has won a litany of large settlements and verdicts in medical malpractice cases, including eight verdicts for $20 million or more. (See Major Victories.) The law firm attorneys employ exhaustive investigation, the latest technology and courtroom experience to insure maximized results.
Kline & Specter attorneys have had impressive legal victories in various types of medical malpractice cases, including the following:
News Articles about some of Kline & Specter's major medical malpractice cases.
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- Parents of an injured child file suit seeking to overthrow South Dakota law that limits non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits to $500,000. The law dates back to 1976. (Full story)
- A California jury rules that a surgeon should pay $8.5 million in a medical malpractice case brought by a widow whose husband died after being injured in a motorcycle accident. Because of state limits on medical malpractice cases, the widow will likely collect $1.65 million. Her husband, who broke six ribs in the accident, developed respiratory problems in the hospital and died five days later, when he choked on his vomit. X-rays, taken just hours before his death, showed that he had one gallon of liquid backed up in his stomach. (Full story)
- A Washington Post reporter discovers firsthand what a Drexel University researcher and the clinical director of the PA Patient Safety Reporting System found -- that surgical mistakes involving the wrong side of a patient can easily occur. The Pennsylvania study found that these type of mistakes happen three times a day in the United States. (Full story)
- A California man wins a $5.1 million medical malpractice settlement from the city after the staff at a municipal hospital botched his treatment for acute renal failure. The man had arrived at the hospital with fever and a cough that he said had lasted about a week. Hospital staff diagnosed acute renal failure and administered several doses of sedatives, but failed to monitor his condition until he went into cardiac and respiratory arrest. During the nine minutes it took to stabilize him, the man suffered anoxic brain injury so severe that he continues to require round-the-clock care at a municipal skilled-nursing facility. (Full story)
- Health officials in Washington state order the immediate license suspension for a doctor accused of negligence, incompetence and malpractice, an action reserved for when it is felt a doctor's conduct puts patients in imminent danger. Among the allegations: the doctor, working as a hospital temporary, made an elderly heart attack victim wait seven hours in the ER before being treated. (Full story)
- A New Jersey man who says laser eye surgery left his vision far worse than before will get $2.1 million to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit against the prominent surgeon who did the procedure. The man underwent surgery to get rid of eye glasses and contact lenses he needed due to nearsightedness but is now legally blind due to the procedure. (Full story)
- In New York, a jury awards the family of a woman who died from breast cancer $9 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a pioneering breast cancer surgeon. After three office visits, the doctor never diagnosed the young mother of two with cancer, or performed a biopsy, even after a lump was found in her breast. Nearly one year later, another doctor diagnosed her with breast cancer. The woman was seven months pregnant with her youngest son when the diagnosis was made, and she could not immediately receive treatment. (Full story)
- A Florida judge restores a $4.36 million medical malpractice verdict in favor of a boy left blind after a trip to the Jacksonville Naval Hospital emergency room. The hospital failed to give the boy three asthma medications, ordered by a doctor, within 10 minutes of his arrival. The judge said workers at the military hospital acted with “reckless disregard” for the 9-year-old’s safety and should have known its conduct created an unreasonable risk of serious injury. (Full story)
- A Florida jury awards a family $12 million for pain and suffering from a hospital’s failure to properly treat an intestinal infection that led to their premature baby’s death. Four months ago, the family accepted settlement offers from the two doctors who were also named in the lawsuit. The medical malpractice case was among nine other lawsuits that are being brought against the hospital for infant deaths from the same infection. (Full story)
- NY state Supreme Court jury awards $17.5 million in a medical malpractice case to a woman whose doctors damaged her organs and caused the removal of her transplanted pancreas following a Caesarean delivery. The doctors neglected to notice that they had cut the connection between her pancreas and bladder during the Caesarean delivery, and as a result, pancreatic fluid and urine leaked into her abdominal cavity. In the following days, digestive fluid burned her organs, ate through her abdominal wall and eventually required removal of her pancreas. The woman is no longer a candidate for future transplants due to extensive internal damage. (Full story)
- Regulators in Nevada plan to expand website information to allow patients to look up whether their doctors were named in medical malpractice cases that ended in awards or settlements. The action came after a major hepatitis C outbreak believed to be caused by unsafe injections procedures at one medical center where doctors allegedly ordered syringes to be resused. (Full story)
- Jury awards $4.45 million to a man’s wife and children after finding a hospital emergency doctor responsible for his death. The family sued the doctor for medical malpractice after he died of an abdominal aortic aneurysm about 12 hours after being discharged from the hospital.(Full story)
- More.....(click here)
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Kline & Specter handles cases in the areas:
In Pennsylvania: Allentown, Altoona, Bethlehem, Doylestown, Erie, Franklin, Gettysburg, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Hershey, Johnstown, Lancaster, Media, Norristown, Pittsburgh, Pottstown, Reading, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, State College, Sunbury, West Chester, Williamsport, York.
In New Jersey: Atlantic City, Cape May, Cherry Hill, Hackensack, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, New Brunswick, Montclair, Newark, New Brunswick, Trenton, Union City, Voorhees.
In Delaware: Dover and Newark regions.
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