Victims of medical malpractice only have 2 years from the date the injury is discovered to file a claim, or no longer than 4 years after the medical negligence occurred.
Not exact matches
The law
only allows
victims of personal injuries, including
medical malpractice victims, to recover compensatory damages, or damages designed to compensate a
victim for their losses.
Medical malpractice and medical errors in hospitals costs society an average of $ 17 billion to $ 29 billion ever year, and yet only one in eight injured victims ever files a malpractice
Medical malpractice and
medical errors in hospitals costs society an average of $ 17 billion to $ 29 billion ever year, and yet only one in eight injured victims ever files a malpractice
medical errors in hospitals costs society an average
of $ 17 billion to $ 29 billion ever year, and yet
only one in eight injured
victims ever files a
malpractice claim.
Our goal is not
only to protect the rights
of accident and injury
victims, but to help prevent
medical malpractice and personal injury accidents from happening in the future.
Our Dallas
medical malpractice lawyers know that
victims of medical negligence have to deal not
only with the pain
of their injuries or the agony
of a wrong diagnosis, but also the uncertainty that follows.
Our Plantation
medical malpractice attorneys know that
victims have to deal not
only with the pain
of their injuries, but also the future expenses that follows.
The practical effect
of the statute
of repose is that if a doctor committed
medical malpractice in your treatment eight years ago and you
only learn in the present day that you've been a
victim of medical malpractice, you will not be able to recover any damages unless your case was one where a doctor left a foreign object inside
of you.