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Misdiagnosis is one of the most common forms of hospital malpractice in Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, Delaware County and Montgomery County. Other types of hospital malpractice include lab mistakes, diagnostic test mix-ups, negligence in facility management resulting in a fall accident, negligence in infection control, and treatment delays. In our medical malpractice law practice, we…

Can You Obtain Compensation for Pain & Suffering Due to a Doctor or Medical Provider’s Negligence? Patients in Pennsylvania who have suffered due to medical malpractice in hospitals or doctor/specialist’s offices often want to know about their rights to compensation for pain and suffering, which is one type of compensation claim in a medical…

Financial Losses Due to Medical Malpractice in Pennsylvania When medical malpractice happens in a hospital or doctor’s office in Pennsylvania, patients who suffer real harm often face serious financial consequences. Medical bills pile up and patients often need to take significant time off from work. Can patients seek compensation for these financial losses? This…

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits in Pennsylvania Some of the most common medical malpractice lawsuits in Pennsylvania involve hospital malpractice, stroke/heart attack misdiagnosis and cancer misdiagnosis. Patients and their families often have many questions about filing lawsuits, what’s involved and what they can expect. In this article, our Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawyers discuss the basics of…

Medical malpractice lawsuits in Pennsylvania are some of the most complex types of cases due to the need for medical experts. In order to win a medical malpractice case in Philadelphia or the nearby counties of Delaware County, Montgomery County, etc., one or more medical experts will be necessary. This is what makes medical…

Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawsuits including cases against hospitals often end in jury trials. Medical professionals like doctors, specialists and hospitals tend to avoid settlement and instead take their chances at trial. Medical malpractice jury trials are difficult and complex, and defense verdicts are pretty common across all of Pennsylvania including Delaware County, Montgomery County, Lehigh County…

Whether it is breast cancer, lung cancer or skin cancer, misdiagnosis of cancer or delay in diagnosis of cancer often occurs due to the following: A treating doctor failed to order a biopsy. A radiologist misread diagnostic tests. A pathologist misread a biopsy. A doctor or specialist did not read or realize the significance…

Last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down an important section of Pennsylvania medical malpractice law that puts a time limit on a patient’s right to sue a medical provider for medical malpractice. Download a PDF of Yanakos v. UPMC (Pennsylvania Supreme Court, October 31, 2019). That law, the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error…

In Pennsylvania medical malpractice cases, family members who’ve lost a loved one may be able to file a wrongful death action and a survival action. These two actions differ in three main ways: who the action belongs to, what damages are recoverable, and the time deadline (statute of limitations) to file a lawsuit. Wrongful…

In Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawsuits, “damages” is the way the legal system tries to answer the question “What has the injured patient lost?” The answer adds up to a dollar figure, but there are two types of damages in a medical malpractice case: Damages capable of exact calculation (financial losses) Damages not capable of…