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Research published by the National Institutes for Health estimates that approximately 400,000 hospitalized patients experience some preventable harm each year, while another report estimated that over 200,000 patient deaths annually were due to preventable medical errors. These shocking numbers are hard to believe, unless you or a loved one becomes a victim of medical malpractice. Should you or a family member suffer a serious injury or death as the result of a medical error, protect your rights by consulting an experienced medical malpractice lawyer.
Medical errors can be caused by treating doctors, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals. Individual practitioners, hospitals, and even nursing homes or long-term care facilities can be held liable for medical malpractice. Common types of medical malpractice include:
- Birth injuries
- Missed or delayed diagnoses, including cancer diagnoses
- Anesthesia errors
- Hospital infections
- Medication errors
- Errors involving patient allergies
- Fertility procedures
- Emergency room delays and mistakes
- Defective medical products
Many victims don’t realize that their injury was caused by medical error. That’s why it takes a skilled team of lawyers and doctors to investigate the causes of injuries or deaths following medical procedures. In order to successfully pursue a medical malpractice case, you must be able to prove that you suffered injuries because of a medical professional’s negligence. Being dissatisfied with your treatment or the outcome of your surgery is not in itself grounds for a medical malpractice case. You must show that the medical provider did not act with the same level of care and competence that would be expected of someone in their position.
An experienced team of medical malpractice lawyers can help you overcome the burdens that confront victims of medical malpractice. We can help you understand your legal rights, who can be held legally responsible for your injuries and whether you should pursue a medical malpractice claim.
There are some common reasons for medical mistakes:
- Poor communication between doctors and hospital staff regarding patient care.
- Poor record-keeping causes doctors to miss important details about a patient’s medical history or medication allergies.
- Understaffed facilities resulting in overworked staff
- Poor supervision of newer doctors by more experienced physicians
- Exhausted doctors and staff who must work long hours with little or no sleep, leading to poor decisions.
- Alcohol or drug dependence of doctors and staff. These are high-stress careers which can lead to addiction to alcohol and other drugs.
Why should you hire Ballin & Associates, LLC?
Our team of experienced Massachusetts medical malpractice lawyers can help you secure the compensation you deserve if you or someone you love has been injured by a medical error. We have developed a network of doctors, nurses, nursing home administrators, and other medical professionals who can help us determine whether there is a valid claim for medical malpractice, or just a bad medical result that could not have been prevented. Our experience enables us to implement the best strategy to maximizing the recovery of monetary compensation for our clients.
Since 1981 99% of our injured clients have had successful outcomes. How did we do this? By treating our clients like they were our own family. We promise to devote our skill, drive and experience to every client with the compassion they deserve.
What will this cost you?
If our law firm accepts your case, you will pay nothing unless and until we collect compensation for you. Our fee will be a percentage of the amount that we collect on your behalf. We always have a signed written agreement with every client so you know exactly how our fee will be determined right from the start.
What kinds of compensation can we recover for you?
Our law firm has helped our clients recover millions of dollars in compensation for losses caused by medical errors, including the following types of losses:
- Medical bills
- Loss of income, including loss of overtime pay
- Other out of pocket expenses, like the cost of renting a car while yours is repaired
- Pain and suffering
- Physical disability
- Permanent scars
- Emotional distress
- Mental anguish
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Loss of love and affection
- Embarrassment and humiliation
- Mental disability
- Wrongful death damages
- Funeral expenses
What is the deadline for filing a lawsuit relating to medical malpractice?
All lawsuits for injuries caused by Massachusetts medical malpractice must be filed in court within three years of the date when the injured person knew or should have known that he or she had a medical malpractice claim. This is helpful becomes people don’t immediately realize that they were injured as a result of medical treatment. In addition, there is a seven year statute of repose of medical malpractice claims, which means that you cannot file a lawsuit more than seven years from the date of the medical error that caused the injury. However, it is always best to get an experienced medical malpractice lawyer involved in your case as soon as possible after medical malpractice. Sometimes important evidence can be lost if an investigation of a medical error is delayed.
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On-Duty Police Injuries
Because policy injury law is such a highly-specialized branch of personal injury law, you need to partner with a Massachusetts police injury law firm that can bring the right legal knowledge, experience and skill to the table. We bring a targeted focus to a variety of police officer accident and injury work claims throughout Massachusetts.
We represent injured Massachusetts police officers as well as Massachusetts State Troopers, firefighters, other public safety personnel and their families for injuries resulting from the following:
- Road detail crashes
- Dump trucks, excavators, backhoes, and skid steers
- Police cruiser and other motor vehicle accidents
- Police motorcycle accidents
- Traffic direction
- Stolen motor vehicle pursuits
- People who resist arrest
- Domestic call struggles
- Assaults
- Protective custody
- Foot pursuits
- Dog bites and other animal attacks
- Slip and fall accidents
- Snow and ice accidents
- Emergency rescues
- Fires and explosions
- Shootings
- Exposure to harmful substances
- Wrongful death
As a result of these encounters, many police officers can sustain the following short- and long-term injuries that may require time out of work and rehabilitation:
- Sprains and strains: tendons, ligaments, muscles, joints
- Neck, back, shoulder and knee injuries
- Spinal injuries
- Nerve damage involving discs, sciatic and ulnar nerves
- Soreness and pain
- Fractures
- Bruises and contusions
- Cuts, punctures, lacerations
- Tendonitis
- Chemical burns
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Aggravation of prior injuries
The most common non-fatal accidents among police officers involve motor vehicle crashes, heavy equipment on road details, assaults, falls, and resisting arrest. We have seen it all and have helped our clients secure compensation to help them and their families face the extreme financial hardships that come with such injuries.
Attorney For police Officers In Massachusetts
Our goal is to collect as much money as possible for Massachusetts police officers and State Troopers injured while on duty and minimize the financial impact on their families. We also make it a point to ease tensions between the client and the department, if any, and to help the employee return to full duty as quickly as possible. At times, we connect injured officers with respected medical specialists to treat their injuries.
Some officers are of the opinion that they can’t make a claim against a responsible third party who causes their injury. This is not the case. In Massachusetts, it is the right of every individual, no matter what his or her occupation, to be compensated for an injury caused by another. We believe this should and must apply to public safety employees hurt on duty. And that is what the law provides. To learn more about your rights, the law and how these claims are made, view our free recorded webinar: Police Injured On Duty: Learn Your Rights To Make Personal Injury Claims.
We also invite you to view our blogs for more helpful information.
- Nine cases successfully resolved for Massachusetts injured officers between $1 million and $6 million.
- Lectured to more than 50 police organizations and departments for more than 25 years, including the Massachusetts Police Association, Massachusetts Coalition of Police, Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, Massachusetts Association of Women in Law Enforcement, and Massachusetts Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.
- Represented injured Massachusetts police officers since 1988 in more than 200 police departments
- Written a column on police injury law for the Massachusetts Police Association’s Sentinel magazine for more than 25 years.
- Certified as an instructor in police injury law by the Municipal Police Training Committee
- Rated as a Super Lawyer in Massachusetts, a distinction reserved for no more than five percent of attorneys in Massachusetts.
If you have been injured serving in the line of duty, your first call should be to one of our experienced attorneys who can protect your rights and work hard to obtain the maximum compensation amount possible.
At BallinLaw, our Massachusetts police injury attorneys can represent police officers and other members of law enforcement, Massachusetts State Troopers and firefighters in cases ranging from crashes to assaults. To obtain a free, no-obligation consultation, call us today at 800-245-2052.
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