Hospital Injury Attorney Serving Connecticut
If you were hurt in a hospital, contact Walsh Woodard LLC
Patients go to the hospital expecting to receive the care necessary to feel better. Sometimes, though, just the opposite happens. Hospitals are required to meet the standards of care when taking care of patients. When those standards are not met, lives can be changed dramatically. We fight back.
Walsh Woodard LLC has extensive experience holding hospitals throughout Connecticut accountable when they injure patients. If you or a loved one was harmed by hospital malpractice, give us a call or contact us online today.
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When hospitals don’t meet standards of care, the lives of patients and their families can be changed forever. That’s why accountability is so important. You and your family deserve answers, and you have rights under Connecticut law. We can protect them.
Remember, strict deadlines apply to medical malpractice cases, especially if you were hurt in a state-run facility. The sooner you get legal advice, the better. Give us a call or contact us online for a free consultation.
Like all medical facilities, hospitals need to meet standards of care when diagnosing and treating patients. Malpractice occurs when care falls short of those standards and patients are injured as a result. Examples of hospital malpractice include:
- Failure to coordinate care: Hospitals have access to numerous medical specialists, tests, and so on, but they need to properly coordinate patients’ care in order to take advantage of those resources.
- Surgical errors: Depending on the circumstances, an injury during surgery may be the responsibility of the surgeon, the hospital, or both.
- Emergency room malpractice: It’s critical for emergency room physicians to make sound decisions, prioritize patients with the most urgent care needs, and follow appropriate standards of care at all times.
- Discharging patients too early: Sometimes, hospitals improperly send patients home with an undiagnosed or untreated medical condition, which can lead to further harm.
- Failure to communicate on discharge: Patients who leave the hospital usually need some form of follow-up care. When hospitals fail to provide adequate discharge instructions, serious consequences can follow.
- Hospital-acquired infections: Drug-resistant bacteria can spread quickly in medical facilities like hospitals. That’s why infection control protocols are critical.
An experienced medical malpractice attorney can investigate what happened and build a strong legal case against the hospital. That may involve reviewing hundreds or thousands of pages of medical records, taking depositions of witnesses, and hiring the right medical experts, which may include hospitalists, emergency room doctors, and other specialists depending on what happened.
In many cases, we’re able to negotiate a settlement with the hospital and/or the doctors involved. However, if the defendants won’t make a fair offer, Walsh Woodard LLC will be ready to take your case to trial. Our firm has litigated cases against nearly every major hospital in Connecticut, and we have a strong track record of results. We’re the legal team you want on your side.
We represent medical malpractice victims and their families on contingency. That means you don’t pay us up front or out of pocket as we investigate and litigate your case. If we recover a verdict or settlement for you, then our fee is a percentage of the recovery; otherwise, you don’t owe us anything. We can explain the terms of our contingency fee in more detail during a free consultation.
