Surgical Error Attorneys Serving Connecticut
When patients are harmed by negligent surgeons, we hold them accountable
When you undergo surgery, you put your health and your future in the surgeon’s hands. Doctors complete many years of training before they can operate on patients, and we trust them to follow standards of care and practice safe, effective medicine.
Unfortunately, surgical errors can occur and cause devastating harm. Many of these errors are preventable. The only way to know if there was medical malpractice during a surgery is to carefully review and evaluate the relevant medical records and consult with an appropriate medical expert. We can help. If you or a loved one has been harmed by a surgical error, give us a call or contact us online for a free consultation.
A law firm that knows how to handle surgical error cases
Medical malpractice cases involving surgical errors can be highly complex. To build a winning case, we need to reconstruct what happened during the surgery itself, often minute by minute, using operative notes, intraoperative imaging, hospital orders, and other records as well as deposition testimony. The pre-surgical planning also plays an important role. We rely on medical experts—a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, and often others—to explain the applicable standards of care and offer their opinions as to whether those standards were met.
Hospitals and surgical centers fight hard to dispute, delay, and deny surgical error claims. You need a reputable law firm experienced in these cases to help you succeed. We can help.
Talk to a Connecticut surgical error lawyer today
If you believe you were the victim of a preventable surgical error, you need an experienced medical malpractice attorney on your side right away. We’d be honored to listen to your story, explain your options and how we can help you to seek justice for you or your family.
Remember, the sooner you take action, the better. Let us take care of the legal matters and the paperwork while you focus on your health and your life. Schedule your free consultation with a West Hartford surgical error attorney at Walsh Woodard today.
As you might imagine, there are many things that can go wrong during a surgical procedure. Some surgical errors are known as “never events,” meaning that they should never happen if proper protocols are followed. Examples of never events include:
- Operating on the wrong patient.
- Operating on the wrong body part.
- Performing the wrong procedure.
- Leaving a surgical instrument such as a sponge inside the patient’s body.
Other types of surgical errors are not “never events,” but they can still be avoided if surgeons and supporting medical professionals take appropriate precautions. Examples of preventable surgical errors include:
- Excessive blood loss
- Infection
- Anesthesia errors
- Nerve damage
- Improper incisions
- Nerve or organ damage
- Failure to properly treat the medical condition (which often requires additional surgery)
Again, most surgical errors are preventable with proper planning and communication among the surgical team. Surgeons, as well as the hospitals and surgical centers that employ them, are responsible for putting patient safety and quality of care first. When they don’t meet that responsibility, patients can be seriously or even fatally injured. Our surgical error attorneys fight for accountability.
In Connecticut, the statute of limitations (legal deadline) for any private health care provider is either two years from the date the injury occurred, or two years from the date the injury was or should have been discovered. If you were injured at a medical facility owned by the State of Connecticut, you have to take steps to preserve your rights one year from the date of injury or when it should have been discovered. This can be a complex legal analysis that you need an experienced attorney to consider. Ultimately, it’s always better to start investigating and gathering medical records sooner than later, so it’s in your interest to talk to an attorney as soon as possible.
You don’t pay anything up front or out of pocket because we work on contingency. That means we advance the costs needed to move your case forward and our fee is a percentage of your eventual recovery. If we win your case, we get paid out of your settlement or verdict. If we don’t win, we don’t get paid. Our attorneys can explain our contingency fee agreement in more detail during a free consultation.
