Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawyer
If you suffered injuries because of a negligent doctor, nurse, or another healthcare professional, hiring the right Chicago medical malpractice lawyer is critical to your financial recovery. Without an experienced attorney on your side, the health care professionals who caused you harm won’t be held accountable for their medical negligence. Even worse, you will be left to foot the bill for your medical expenses, lost wages, and other financial losses.
Lloyd Law Group, LTD
will help you recover fair compensation for your
Preventable Injuries Caused by Medical Malpractice
As one of the most successful medical malpractice attorneys in Chicagoland, Kurt D. Lloyd has obtained numerous multi-million dollar, record-breaking settlements and verdicts on behalf of injured patients in Illinois. Mr. Lloyd has earned a reputation for taking on some of the most difficult medical malpractice cases in the state, and winning big.
Call a medical malpractice lawyer at Lloyd Law Group, LTD today at (312) 519-2777. Let’s get started with your recovery.
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When Should You Hire a Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawyer?
The sooner you begin working with our Chicago medical malpractice lawyers, the better your chances of recovering full compensation for your losses. Medical providers are reluctant to admit when they make mistakes that harm their patients. To protect their reputation and their own bottom line, hospitals, surgical centers, and other health care providers will even go as far as to cover up medical errors that cause serious injury or wrongful death. Hiring an experienced medical malpractice attorney right away ensures that witnesses’ memories are fresh, evidence is preserved, and your right to obtain compensation is protected.
Our Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorneys Can Help You Obtain Quality Medical Care
If you suffered severe injuries or a worsened medical condition because of medical negligence, getting evaluated by another physician is crucial to your wellbeing and your financial recovery. Unfortunately, you may be reluctant to trust another medical provider, or you may have difficulty affording medical care. Delayed treatment, however, can cause your condition to get worse.
The experienced Illinois medical malpractice attorneys at Lloyd Law Group will help you gain access to top medical providers in the Chicago area who can diagnose your condition and make sure you get the treatment you need. Additionally, our law firm will connect with medical experts who can help us identify and prove the medical errors that were made.
Our Attorneys Will Preserve Evidence Applicable to Your Medical Malpractice Case
Getting a medical malpractice lawyer involved right away is vital to ensuring evidence is preserved. In medical negligence cases, it’s common for the negligent medical provider, hospital personnel, and other medical professionals to attempt to hide the fact that negligent treatment or medical malpractice occurred. To avoid liability in medical malpractice lawsuits, and to protect the reputation of the medical professional and the facility, they might destroy or tamper with medical records, or even claim your injuries were caused by something else.
When you hire our legal team to handle your Illinois medical malpractice claim, we will take steps to prevent spoliation during the pre-suit phase of your case.
Our Medical Malpractice Lawyers Will Protect Your Rights
With our experienced lawyers to guide you through the legal process, you are less likely to fall victim to the unscrupulous tactics of the defendant.
The medical malpractice insurance company may contact you soon after they are informed that your claim has been filed. Their representatives will pretend that they care about what happened, and that they are looking out for your wellbeing. They’re not.
Insurance investigators will probably try to get you to make a statement about what you suspect happened. They might even try to convince you that medical mistakes did not cause your serious medical condition. Don’t talk to them.
Insurance companies often strike while victims are heavily medicated, ill, or recovering from surgery. By communicating with you when you are most vulnerable, they have a better chance of coercing you into accepting a lowball settlement offer, or dropping your medical malpractice case altogether. Don’t accept any settlement offer from anyone without speaking with malpractice lawyer Kurt D. Lloyd.
How Much Are Medical Malpractice Claims Worth?
Damages in medical malpractice cases vary significantly, depending on the severity of the injuries suffered, whether the injured victim will be able to return to work, and the insurance policies and other sources of recovery that are available. Our legal team will consider these and other factors when determining the value of your medical malpractice lawsuit.
How the Courts Will Evaluate the Severity of Your Injuries
Your lawyer will prepare a report that includes information about how your injuries or severe medical condition impacts your daily life. This report will detail information about the pain you now endure, your inability to perform the duties of your job, and how you are unable to participate in activities you once enjoyed. It will also include your medical records, statements from your doctors, statements from medical experts, and your treatment plan.
If litigation is necessary, the courts will use the information in the report to evaluate how your medical condition has affected your financial stability, your ability to earn an income, and your daily life. Both out-of-pocket costs and subjective losses will be considered.
Medical malpractice cases that involve catastrophic permanent injuries or wrongful death are typically worth more than cases that involve minor or temporary injuries. For instance, if the medical error caused you to suffer paralysis, your case will be worth more than the case of someone who is expected to heal completely.
How Much Will Your Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Cost?
Concerns about the cost of filing a medical malpractice lawsuit should not prevent you from taking legal action against a negligent doctor, hospital, or other health care providers. When you hire Kurt D. Lloyd to handle your case, you won’t pay any upfront attorneys fees. In fact, Mr. Lloyd will even cover your court costs, the expense of hiring medical experts and investigators, and other related expenses to ensure you have the ability to pursue full compensation even if your financial situation is currently unstable. When we win your case, we will subtract Mr. Lloyd’s fees and the expenses of your case from your settlement or jury award.
Who Can Medical Malpractice Victims Sue in Illinois?
Various sources of recovery may be available in Illinois medical malpractice lawsuits. The medical malpractice insurance policy maintained by the negligent medical provider will most likely be your primary source of recovery. That isn’t always the case, however, and a single insurance payout may not be the only compensation you’re entitled to receive.
In some cases, multiple medical providers may be liable for a victim’s injury.
You may be able to sue:
- A negligent emergency room doctor and the medical team who treated you (or failed to treat you) in the ER.
- Your family physician, a radiologist, or a specialist who failed to identify and diagnose your medical condition.
- Your OBGYN and the labor and delivery team who caused your child's birth injuries.
- A negligent surgeon and the surgery team whose surgical errors caused your paralysis.
- A hospital or other medical facility who was responsible for the actions of the negligent healthcare professional(s).
What Damages Are Available in Illinois Medical Malpractice Cases?
Economic damages and non-economic damages may be available in medical malpractice cases. Illinois law prohibits recovering punitive damages in injury cases involving medical negligence, however. The damages that are available in your medical malpractice case will depend on the type of injury you suffered, whether you require ongoing medical treatment, and whether your injury caused you to have a permanent disability.
Economic Damages in Medical Malpractice Claims
Economic damages are fairly easy to calculate in medical malpractice claims in Illinois. To determine the value of your economic damages, your attorney will consider your medical bills, the cost of your future medical treatment, your lost wages, and other financial losses.
Non-Economic Losses in a Medical Negligence Case
Your non-economic damages are not tied to a set monetary value, so their value is more difficult to estimate. If your case goes to trial, the jury will consider your pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, emotional trauma, and other subjective losses to determine your award.
Damages Available in Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Involving Wrongful Death
If your loved one died because of medical negligence, you may be able to file a wrongful death lawsuit to recover full compensation for the loss of financial support no longer provided by the deceased, loss of consortium, and for your grief, sorrow, and mental suffering.
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“A big “thank you” to Attorney Kurt Lloyd for bringing my case to a successful close. I was hit by a car as a pedestrian, and the driver was the employee of a large corporation. Kurt Lloyd was determined in tracking down the evidence that identified the hit/run driver, in pressing the driver’s company to step up to the plate and managed the process through the court system. Kurt negotiated a great settlement. Thank you!”
~ Kathleen Kurke
What Are the Most Common Causes of Medical Malpractice in Cook County?
Medical malpractice injuries are the third-leading cause of death in the United States, following heart disease and cancer. The number of people who survive instances of medical malpractice is unclear, because these cases are grossly underreported.
The first step in preventing medical malpractice is to identify what causes preventable medical mistakes. Some of the most common causes in Cook County include:
Healthcare Provider Fatigue
Fatigue among medical professionals is alarmingly common. Despite laws that limit the number of hours a medical professional can work, more than half of physicians in the United States suffer from fatigue. When doctors and other healthcare professionals suffer from fatigue, they put their patients in harm’s way. In fact, fatigued doctors are twice as likely to make a mistake when treating patients than those who are not sleep-deprived, overworked, or stressed.
Lack of Experience or Inadequate Training
Healthcare worker shortages are thought to play a substantial role in the number of medical errors that injure patients. Without enough experienced doctors and nurses in hospitals and urgent care centers, less experienced medical professionals are forced to provide care at levels in which they are not adequately trained or qualified. The lack of knowledge, experience, and confidence results in substandard care when diagnosing and treating patients.
Miscommunication
The HIPAA Journal reports that miscommunication plays a role in approximately 80% of serious medical errors. Communication errors between medical providers most often occur when patients are transitioning from one healthcare professional to another during shift changes. Miscommunication among caregivers can result in misdiagnoses, failure to treat patients, failure to monitor, and even medication mistakes. In some cases, these errors can be deadly.
Technical Failures
Technical failures are another leading cause of medical malpractice. These failures may occur when medical devices and equipment are defective, or when they are not used properly. Technical failures that cause patient injuries might involve faulty testing equipment, dangerous implants, unsafe medications, defective medical tools, or even life-saving equipment.
If you suffered injuries that were caused by the negligence of a healthcare provider, you may have a valid medical malpractice claim. Malpractice attorney Kurt D. Lloyd can help you recover compensation for your medical bills, physical pain and emotional suffering, and your lost wages.
Types of Medical Malpractice Cases Our Law Firm Handles
At Lloyd Law Group, our attorneys provide legal representation to patients who have suffered severe or catastrophic injuries at the hands of their medical teams. Examples of the types of cases we handle include:
Claims for Failure to Diagnose
When a doctor fails to promptly and properly diagnose a patient, conditions like cancer and heart disease may go untreated. Without appropriate medical care, irreversible damage can occur. Cancer can progress beyond a treatable level. Heart disease can become unmanageable. In some cases, a doctor’s failure to diagnose a patient can be deadly.
Fatal Blood Clot Cases
Nearly 300,000 Americans lose their lives every year to blood clots that travel to the lungs or heart. Referred to as a deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot can develop in anybody, but the most common victims are surgery patients and people who are immobile. When a doctor fails to prevent or treat a blood clot and a patient suffers injury or death, the physician can be sued for medical malpractice.
Cases Involving Disabling Birth Injuries
Any harm that a baby suffers during pregnancy, childbirth, or shortly after birth is classified as a birth injury. While some birth injuries cause only minor or temporary injuries, others are permanently disabling. In the worst of cases, babies die. When birth injuries are caused by the negligence of physicians, nurses, or other medical professionals, victims can file medical malpractice lawsuits to recover compensation.
Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Claims
If nursing home injuries occur because a medical professional is negligent during the course of providing, or failing to provide, medical care, victims can file a medical malpractice claim. Examples of nursing home negligence that would be classified as medical malpractice include a nurse providing the wrong medication to a resident, caregivers failing to treat bedsores, or the nursing team failing to administer CPR to a resident in cardiac arrest.
Surgical Error Cases
Surgical errors are a leading cause of medical malpractice injuries and deaths in the United States. If your surgical team operated on the wrong body part, left foreign objects inside your body, performed surgery on you that was supposed to have been performed on someone else, or made another type of surgical mistake, the healthcare professionals responsible for your injuries can be held liable through a medical malpractice claim.
Cancer Misdiagnosis Cases
A cancer misdiagnosis can occur in various ways. A doctor can diagnose the wrong type of cancer, diagnose cancer as a different condition, or even diagnose cancer when the disease does not exist in the patient. A cancer misdiagnosis can result in unnecessary surgeries or medications that are designed for other conditions, or the lack of lifesaving treatment. If you suffered injuries because of a cancer misdiagnosis, you may have a valid medical malpractice case.
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