Hospital Error? Doctor Mistake? Schedule Your Free Consultation With a Medical Malpractice Lawyer if You Suffered Injuries and are From Taylorville, IL
One type of personal injury case is a medical malpractice claim. Even though there are many excellent healthcare providers in Illinois, mistakes happen – including to victims right here in Taylorville, IL. Unfortunately, some of these medical errors can have life-changing and life-threatening consequences for victims and their families. Sadly, statistics reveal that preventable medical errors may be one of the leading causes of death in the United States – behind only heart disease and cancer. Over half of all physicians report being sued for medical malpractice too, including in surgical errors, misdiagnoses, and wrongful death cases. Thus, whenever a patient suffers an unexpected injury or believes that he or she may have been injured by a medical error in Illinois, they should schedule a free consultation with an experienced medical malpractice lawyer in Illinois.
At the Noll Law Office, their compassionate and skilled legal team offers free case evaluations for victims and their families. This includes in medical malpractice cases in Taylorville, IL resulting in birth injuries, disability, or the wrongful death of a loved one. Even if you are unsure that you have a case, the experienced medical malpractice lawyers at the Noll Law Office can meet with you and your family to answer your questions and explain your rights under Illinois law. To schedule your free case evaluation, call them today by dialing (217) 414-8889.
What is Medical Malpractice in Illinois?
Medical malpractice is when a healthcare provider failed to provide care and treatment within the accepted standard of care that a reasonably prudent healthcare provider would have under similar circumstances. It is measured from what other healthcare providers in the same or similar specialty, location, and training would have done. That means that a nurse’s conduct is measured against another nurse’s conduct, and not a doctor. It also means that a nurse’s conduct is measured against a nurse within the same field, so a pediatric nurse is measured against what another pediatric nurse would have done – not what a highly trained and specialized NICU nurse would have done.
As a result, medical malpractice cases require expert testimony to establish what the standard of care was and how the defendant deviated from the standard of care. This is a very complex and difficult type of claim to prove, and often requires a skilled medical malpractice lawyer in Illinois. The Noll Law Office has the skill and resources necessary to prove complicated and catastrophic personal injury cases, including medical malpractice cases in Taylorville, IL.
Some of the most common examples of medical malpractice cases in Illinois include the following:
- Surgical errors
- Nursing home mistakes
- Misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis cases
- Infections or sepsis
- Wrong patient or wrong site surgeries
- Hospital falls
- Pressure sores or ulcers, or bedsores
- Misread test results
- Delays in treating a patient or transferring a patient
- Triage errors
- Understaffing, and
- Many other types of reckless or careless errors causing medical malpractice in Taylorsville or elsewhere in Illinois.
What are Birth Injury Cases?
Birth injury cases are types of medical malpractice cases, but they relate to the care, treatment, and injuries caused during the labor and delivery process. This means that they affect babies, including neonates (less than four weeks old) all the way to infants (less than a year old). However, some birth injuries may not be identified until a child is older, including when the child is a toddler (age 1 to 3 years old). Other birth injuries may even be caused when a child is still in-utero, which could be a prenatal injury.
There are many different types of birth injuries that could be caused by medical malpractice in Illinois. Generally, any unexpected outcome or adverse outcome should be evaluated by a trained medical malpractice lawyer. Some of the most common types of birth injuries include the following:
- Kernicterus
- Cerebral palsy
- Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
- Anoxic injuries
- Brachial plexus injuries
- Scarring and disfigurement
- Being dropped or mishandled
- Medication errors or overdoses
- Infections or sepsis
- Choking or delays in resuscitation
- IV or needle injuries
- Broken bones or torn muscles
- Failure to diagnose or treat a condition or disease
- Delays in transferring a patient to the NICU or a higher level of care hospital or facility, and
- Many other types of serious or catastrophic types of medical errors that affect a baby in Illinois.
Injured by Medical Malpractice in Taylorville, IL? Schedule Your Free Consultation With a Medical Malpractice Lawyer in Illinois
If you or a loved one were injured due to a healthcare provider’s negligent act or failure to act, you may have a medical malpractice claim under Illinois law. To learn more about your rights to compensation and how the Noll Law Office can help you and your family, contact their medical malpractice lawyer to schedule a free case evaluation. Their main office is in Springfield, IL, and they handle personal injury cases such as medical malpractice cases in Taylorville, IL. There is no obligation to sign up with their personal injury law firm during your consultation. But if you choose to hire them, and if they accept your case, there is no upfront fee or out-of-pocket expense to work with their skilled legal team. Instead, they receive a percentage of your total recovery as their legal fee, and only after they recover it for you.
That means there is no upfront cost, no obligation, and no out-of-pocket expenses to work with the Noll Law Office. Schedule your free consultation by dialing (217) 414-8889 to speak with a trained representative or one of their lawyers. In addition, victims may also send a message here which is kept private and confidential.