One area of law that a Personal Injury Lawyer Tampa FL handles includes medical malpractice, which is actually a wide area of law concerning medical negligence of all kinds. It includes hospital mishaps, which can be devastating, especially because sometimes they are such very simple mistakes. For example, a victim may have had the wrong limb amputated. A doctor could make a mistake during surgery or with post-surgical treatment orders that end up leaving the patient with a permanent disability. The doctor may have failed to diagnose the patient in time, or misdiagnosed the patient with the wrong condition, or failed to diagnose the patient at all. The delay in receiving a correct diagnosis causes delayed treatment.
Doctors who deliver babies are known to carry high malpractice insurance due to the number of mistakes that can happen during delivery that affect mothers and children. A baby may be injured during birth and left with brain damage, spinal cord damage, fractured bones, cerebral palsy, and more.
The staff may be negligent and thereby leave the patient with a severe injury. Part of that negligence may be a medication mishap from a medication that was prescribed in error, or a prescription that was filled in error. The staff may accidentally give the patient an overdose of the correct medication, or get two patient’s medications mixed up. The staff may simply fail to provide the patient with the medication that was prescribed.
Nursing home neglect and abuse is another type of injury that a Personal Injury Lawyer Tampa FL deals with. Patients may be neglected. They may not be turned and re-positioned enough and develop bed sores and worse. Staff members may emotionally or physically abuse residents in nursing homes. The nursing home’s business office may be committing fraud by over-billing or double billing residents’ insurance companies.
Personal injury lawyers like H. Dennis Rogers P.A. will help clients without requiring any payment up front. They are compensated only if they win a judgment or a settlement for the victim. They help clients recover economic and non-economic damages plus punitive damages. There is a statute of limitations for medical malpractice cases. In the state of Florida, it is two years.
