If you have a malpractice case that’s been filed and litigated, your attorney should be actually calculating in the estimated cost of future medical treatment to any settlement that you might receive. Similarly, if you go to jury trial, the jury is going to hear evidence from an expert as to what kind of treatment you might need as a result of the medical malpractice.
Again, for example, if a surgeon or a physician misses some sort of diagnosis and you need to have subsequent surgery, subsequent chemotherapies or anything of that nature, an expert will probably come in and say what extra treatment you’re going to need. That would be have to be calculated into any type of malpractice settlement before you close the case.
