Connecticut Medical Malpractice Lawyer Takes On Biggest New Haven Hospitals
Have you had an unexpected negative outcome following treatment or surgery at any of New Haven’s many hospitals? Contact Connecticut medical malpractice claim lawyer Jack O’Donnell right away.
New Haven goes hand in hand with hospitals. The city is renowned for the care available at places like Yale-New Haven Hospital and a dozen more healthcare institutions throughout the city and county. It is even trying to put itself on the map as a hub for advanced medical research.
However, despite all the training and exceptional care that the vast majority of people will find in our hospitals, even the best New Haven doctors, surgeons, and hospital staff make mistakes. Sometimes, those mistakes are assumed risks of chancy procedures, but other times, they are the consequences of negligence or even recklessness.
When such negligent mistakes leave you injured, maimed, or dealing with serious complications, it can feel incredibly unfair, and it is. This is why Connecticut law allows you to hold them responsible for the harm, losses, and costs endured as a result. Doing so, however, is rarely easy, which is why you will need help from an attorney with significant medical malpractice experience.
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Who Can File A Medical Malpractice Claim In New Haven?
Some danger is inevitable in any surgery, and even simple medical procedures or medication come with the occasional risk. In fact, you most likely had to sign some consent forms to absolve the hospital of responsibility for anticipated side effects and risks. But you did not sign up to be butchered or for a surgeon or doctor to be careless.
Part of your agreement with any medical provider or institution is that they will uphold a certain degree of care toward you as their patient. If they fail in that duty of care, and in so doing, you get hurt, they can be considered negligent and responsible for that harm done to you.
Thus, in order to file a medical malpractice claim, you must:
- Have been treated by a doctor, nurse, surgeon, or other medical professional,
- This person must have failed in their duty of care to you by acting negligently or recklessly,
- You must have suffered significant harm as a result of that negligence, usually a severe injury of some kind.
If those conditions are met, you should speak with a medical malpractice attorney as soon as possible about the compensation you are entitled to. After all, the hospitals of New Haven can afford it, but you might be struggling to afford anything, depending on the nature of the injury.
What Kind Of Compensation Can A New Haven Medical Malpractice Attorney Help You Claim?
In Connecticut, the average damages awarded in medical malpractice claims tend to clock in at around a million dollars, and it has been rising as some of the more expensive claims climb into the tens of millions or more. Try to remember that if a hospital’s insurance company offers you a mere ten or twenty thousand.
They do this because they know just how significant claims can be. But rest assured, the hospital or doctor will not be paying it; that is what they have malpractice insurance for. The important thing for you is to make sure that you get the full compensation you need to make a full recovery or at least to pay for the temporary and/or long-term harm caused by the medical treatment gone wrong.
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As a result, in Connecticut medical malpractice claims, you have a right to claim compensation for:
- Any medical expenses required to repair or treat the damage caused by the negligence, including any scans, diagnostics or visits required to even detect and identify it.
- Any estimated future medical expenses caused by the injury, such as long-term care, medication, or physical therapy.
- Any income lost because of the harm done by medical negligence, such as if you are unable to work for some time.
- Lost earning potential caused by the injury, for a permanent or partial disability or inability to work.
- Emotional harm and trauma caused by the incident.
- Pain and suffering due to medical malpractice, including any ongoing or future pain.
- Any loss in the quality of your life, from anything like activities you cannot do to permanent disfigurement, you must endure.
- Loss of consortium if there is any interference with conjugal duties.
- Any other harms, costs, or losses caused by the injury and its consequences.
In short, it's a long list, and values can quickly skyrocket as they represent drastic impacts on your life and standard of living. They are also sometimes quite difficult to calculate or not something you would even think to estimate, much less know how to.
This is the domain of personal injury attorneys like Jack O’Donnell, who help medical malpractice victims in New Haven make sure they do not miss any crucial compensation. Because once you accept a settlement offer from the hospital’s insurance, you are almost certainly not going to be able to claim anything for that injury later. Even if additional costs arise.
Which is why you do not want to wait to contact a medical malpractice lawyer.
Call A New Haven Medical Malpractice Lawyer Near You!
Law Office of Jack O'Donnell, L.L.C. | Helping New Haven victims of medical malpractice claim vital compensation.
Have you or a loved one woken up after surgery in New Haven only to find something has gone badly wrong? Have you just realized the pain and symptoms you have been feeling started after a change in treatment? You might be eligible for significant medical malpractice injury compensation.
Call Connecticut medical malpractice lawyer Jack O’Donnell as soon as possible at (203) 787-8603, to get started on your claim.