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Not exact matches
Our team
of solicitors at Thompsons NI brings together
experts in the fields
of personal & serious injury,
medical negligence, employment & family law.
When faced with a lifetime
of medical and rehabilitation bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering, victims
of severe back and neck trauma as a result
of negligence should consult an
expert personal injury lawyer immediately to discuss their case.
We also work with
medical experts who can help determine the extent
of the harm caused by
medical negligence.
The plaintiff contended that the lawsuit was not one
of medical malpractice, but
of ordinary
negligence, for which an
expert is not required under state law.
As is often the case in
medical negligence actions, it became a battle
of competing
experts.
The defendant was expected to have presented
expert medical testimony that the injury was a risk
of the procedure and can occur without
negligence on the part
of the surgeon.
It is basically corroboration by a
medical expert that your assertion
of medical negligence against a healthcare provider is valid.
Opening a window into the daily difficulties
of a hospital's accident & emergency department, Lawyer Monthly hears from Aruni Sen, an
expert witness that deals predominantly with personal injury and
medical negligence claims.
Our
medical negligence experts have supported thousands
of people who were injured or suffered harm as a result
of an operation or surgical error.
Medical negligence experts from Moore Blatch Resolve are advising women affected by the failure
of contraceptive impant Implanon to contact them regarding compensation claims.
Serving as an
expert witness, Mr. Choksey will be revealing in the next two editions
of Lawyer Monthly various conditions which are subject to
medical negligence and where improvement can be made in order to avoid such lawsuits.
However, there was no reason for the trial judge to need to resort to the common sense approach to provide an inference that the injury was caused by the
negligence because, according to the trial judge, at least two
of the plaintiffs»
medical experts testified that the conduct which was the nurses»
negligence was a cause: that if they had done what they should have done, the problem would have been detected in time to either prevent completely or substantially eliminate the injury that ultimately occurred.
When necessary, your San Diego attorney will work hand - in - hand with
medical experts to fully demonstrate the link between the
negligence of a person or entity and your brain injuries.
Over the years the
medical negligence experts at Hugh James have successfully recovered damages for many patients and have become
experts in this field
of medical negligence.
We speak with one
of the UK's best neurosurgeons, Munchi Choksey, this month about how the
medical sector is often under the litigation spotlight; serving as an
expert witness, Mr. Choksey will be revealing in the next two editions
of Lawyer Monthly various conditions which are subject to
medical negligence and where improvement can be made in order to avoid such lawsuits.
In practice, this means that there will often be good prospects in
medical negligence claims, other than the most straightforward, for seeking an extension
of time to bring claim outside the 3 - year time limit, where a client (the patient) delays seeking legal advice or investigation
of the claim until outside this 3 - year timeframe from their initial injury, or where provision
of the
expert opinion does not occur until this 3 - year time limit has expired.
In practice therefore, in a
medical negligence claim, to have awareness that an injury was «attributable to the conduct
of a person» (the 2nd test above) will, in my view at least, almost inevitably require that an
expert medical witness has expressed such a view and this has been made known to the claimant.
This burden
of proof means that
expert review
of the circumstances and
expert testimony will ordinarily be required to determine the viability
of the
medical negligence claim and to overcome the objections that the CMPA will be certain to raise in defending the actions
of the doctor involved.
A team
of medical consultant
experts and legal professionals can review the patient's records to determine if there was
negligence or an attempt to cover up the mistake.
Every aspect
of a
medical negligence case involving Erb's palsy requires
expert testimony.
Medical negligence claimants must offer
expert testimony with respect to the applicable standard
of care, the breach
of the standard
of care, and the causal link between the
negligence and the harm sustained.
Or we might take additional
expert depositions, such as the depositions
of doctors during a
medical malpractice lawsuit, security
experts during a dangerous property /
negligence security case, or crash reconstruction
experts, during an auto accident wrongful death case.
She is on the specialist Law Society Clinical
Negligence Panel, a member
of AvMA and is an accredited
expert in acting for the victims
of medical accidents.
When patients make claims
of negligence the process
of discovering whether
negligence occurred requires investigating
medical records, interviewing the involved parties (through sworn depositions), finding
experts, sorting out conflicts between the opinions
of experts, reinvestigating the records and testimony as new insights are uncovered and then reaching some kind
of consensus, if possible, about what actually occurred and whether those facts meet the definition
of legal
negligence.
Based on the format
of the All England Law Reports, this comprehensive series offers
expert reporting
of cases on a wide range
of areas such as
medical negligence, consent to treatment, NHS administrative and employment law, pharmaceutical products, quantum damages, mental health and the conduct
of medical bodies.
Consequently, future claimants would be expected «to be able to understand and apply the law
of negligence, liability, causation and quantum, instruct and pay for a
medical expert, quantify their claim, pay a court fee, obtain witness evidence from independent witnesses, negotiate with insurers and ultimately appear in court as their own advocate against a legally experienced opponent».
The team is top ranked throughout England and Wales and has
experts in all aspects
of medical negligence including
medical misdiagnosis.
I also engage as an
expert witness in
medical -
negligence and personal injury cases (the other 10 %
of my work).