Updates and Insights: Medical Malpractice Case Issues
- Steps to Secure Your Medical Records for a Malpractice Lawsuit in New Jersey
Sep 6, 2024
A healthcare provider whose negligence injures you may be held accountable through legal proceedings in New Jersey and required to compensate you for the resulting financial and emotional losses. However, you cannot obtain compensation without proof of medical malpractice. You must support your compensation demand with medical records that show the timing, cause, and nature of your injuries and the costs associated with diagnosing and treating them. They hold your medical history, treatment, and care...Read More - Top Advantages of Hiring a Medical Malpractice Attorney
Dec 15, 2023
You may believe hiring a lawyer for your medical malpractice claim costs too much. However, handling your medical malpractice claim on your own may cost you much more in the long run. For one, medical malpractice often involves highly technical, legal, and scientific matters that you must master to convince an insurance company, jury, or judge that your injury results from medical malpractice. You risk losing your claim when you cannot convince an insurance company...Read More - Meeting the Burden of Proof in a New Jersey Medical Malpractice Case
Jun 23, 2023
When You Allege Medical Negligence in NJ, How Do You Prove it? To recover your losses due to a medical professional’s or healthcare facility’s negligence, you must file a medical malpractice claim. When you do, you are the plaintiff and you have the burden to prove that the medical provider, hospital, or other medical professional or facility is responsible for your injury. This is true in standard medical malpractice cases; however, there are exceptions to...Read More - What is Loss of Enjoyment of Life in a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit?
Jan 20, 2023
After a medical malpractice injury, you may suffer physical pain due to sprains, fractures, cuts, infections, bleeding, and even permanent disability, as well as emotional pain due to overwhelming losses. When your life changes radically due to a medical professional’s carelessness or recklessness, you may lose your sense of joy, purpose, and well-being. Activities you once enjoyed are lost to you, temporarily or permanently, an irreparable loss throughout your life. Loss of life’s enjoyment resulting...Read More - Loss of Companionship and Consortium in a Medical Malpractice Case
Jan 6, 2023
New Jersey allows loved ones of medical malpractice victims to pursue compensation for the toll that their family member’s injuries or death has taken on their relationship and their household. The stresses of caretaking and lost support from your spouse can take an enormous toll on your relationship. Your relationship may suffer when your loved one sustains injuries or dies from a medical professional’s or facility’s negligence. When the damages from a medical malpractice incident...Read More - Social Media in Your Medical Malpractice Case in NJ
Dec 23, 2022
What to Know about Discoverability, Use, and Best Practices with Social Media if You Intend to File a Claim for Medical Negligence in New Jersey In the Internet age of social media, people find connection through disclosing their private lives to others. In fact, social media exists to nourish those connections. Those who use social media to maintain family contacts all over the globe or meet people they would not otherwise feel less isolated. Still,...Read More - Can I Take Medical Leave After Medical Malpractice Happens to Me or Someone I Love in New Jersey?
Nov 5, 2022
When you or a loved one suffers a severe injury or illness due to a medical error, you may not be able to work while you or your loved one recovers. Fortunately, the federal and New Jersey state legislatures protect many employees from losing their jobs due to illness or caretaking responsibilities when tragedy strikes. The federal and state medical leave statutes allow employees to focus on their overwhelming needs for themselves or their families...Read More - Key Considerations for Settling a Medical Malpractice Case or Going to Trial
Jan 8, 2022
Reaching a Settlement or Litigating for a Verdict, How do You Decide? Medical malpractice cases are complicated. They present a multitude of questions, procedural requirements, legal hurdles, and ultimately, decisions by both sides. When you have been a victim of medical malpractice in New Jersey, one of your most significant decisions over the course of the case, or perhaps the most critical choice you need to make, is whether to reach a settlement or take...Read More - Understanding Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) in the Malpractice Context
Sep 18, 2020
In late January of 2020, the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic a worldwide public health emergency. In the U.S., public health emergencies have existed before, the H1N1 virus in 2009, for example. For public health emergencies like Covid-19 and H1N1 before it, healthcare workers and first responders are under extreme pressure to save lives quickly on a massive scale. When that happens, the medical priorities shift to doing what is expediently necessary—even deciding...Read More - Gender Bias in Medicine: Could it be Malpractice?
Mar 8, 2020
With so many women suffering from cardiovascular disease, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and other serious medical conditions, it is shocking to know that women are taken less seriously when reporting their symptoms and seeking medical care. Surprising as it may seem, gender bias in medicine is a very real problem that may lead to misdiagnosis, missed diagnoses, and poor outcomes for women’s health. If you are a woman with an illness or medical condition in New...Read More