Experienced Medical Malpractice Lawyers In Chicago
The United States arguably has the best health care available in the world. However, despite the high standard of care, medical negligence still happens, which sometimes result in serious injury or death. If you are looking for medical malpractice lawyers in Chicago, the attorneys at Nolan Law Group understand the pain and devastation that individuals and families can experience losing a loved one because of medical negligence. You put your faith and life in the hands of a health care professional or institution only to have that faith shattered by negligence or misconduct.
Medical malpractice claims can include actions against the following parties:
- Medical professionals: This includes doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, home health care workers and dentists.
- Medical institutions: This includes hospitals or any other entity in the medical profession that causes harm to you or your loved ones.
Our legal team helps you hold negligent parties accountable for your losses.
Broad Chicago Medical Malpractice Legal Knowledge And Experience
When you choose to work with a Chicago medical negligence attorney at Nolan Law Group, you benefit from the experience of our entire team. Our team includes on-site registered nurses and a network of trusted medical experts we have partnered with for decades. Together with your medical negligence attorney, they will work tirelessly to build a winning case.
Our firm handles a wide variety of medical malpractice cases, including the following:
- Hospital errors: These mistakes occur during admission, treatment or discharge within a clinical setting.
- Medication errors: This involves the administration of the wrong drug or the incorrect dosage.
- Prescription mistakes: These errors happen when a physician or pharmacist provides incorrect medication instructions.
- Failure to diagnose cancers: A delayed or missed cancer diagnosis can result in a loss of critical treatment time.
- Failure to diagnose heart attacks: Neglecting to identify cardiac distress can lead to permanent heart damage or death.
- Emergency room errors: These mistakes happen in high-pressure environments where quick and accurate decisions are vital.
- Diagnostic failures: This includes a failure to run tests, misreading tests and X-rays, or a failure to diagnose a condition.
- Staffing issues: We handle cases involving inadequate staffing or situations where no doctor is available to treat medical conditions.
In addition to general medical negligence matters, we focus on specific areas where you may need a Chicago medical malpractice lawyer, such as birth injuries and surgical injuries.
Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers
About 5% of children born in the United States experience some form of birth trauma. While many birth injuries happen naturally, some can result from medical malpractice. These can cause lifelong disabilities. The Chicago medical negligence lawyers at our firm are trial lawyers. We manage claims against doctors and hospitals for birth injuries caused by negligence.
We have won compensation for infants with injuries from fetal distress. We also manage complications from negligent vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).
Nolan Law Group evaluates cases involving these birth complications:
- Brain injuries: This includes cerebral palsy and hypoxia.
- Delivery complications: We manage cases involving shoulder dystocia or uterine rupture. We also review the improper use of forceps or vacuum extractors.
- Pregnancy conditions: This includes preeclampsia and placental abruption.
- Neonatal issues: Our firm investigates fetal distress and cases involving stillborn babies.
- Surgical errors: This includes negligence during emergency or planned C-sections.
If your family suffered due to one of these complications, our Chicago medical malpractice lawyers are here to support you.
Surgical Injuries In Chicago
A doctor undergoes years of academic and medical training to prepare for a career as a surgeon. Likewise, a physician assistant and surgical technicians also receive extensive training before the medical facility allows them to assist with these delicate procedures.
However, despite having received this tremendous amount of training, mistakes can and do happen. Although surgery does involve some degree of risk, all too often, permanent injuries result from a medical professional’s negligence.
The hospital negligence lawyers at Nolan Law Group have successfully helped victims of medical malpractice and surgical negligence obtain fair and just compensation. In fact, our team of experienced attorneys has recovered millions of dollars in verdicts on behalf of clients.
Nolan Law Group has lawyers who have experience in and is currently evaluating patients who have suffered the following surgical injuries:
- Surgical instruments left in the body: This happens when a team does not count tools before closing an incision
- Wrong-site surgery: This involves operating on the wrong body part
- Wrong surgical procedure: This occurs when a patient receives a surgery meant for someone else
- Nerve and tissue damage: This includes spinal cord injuries that lead to paralysis
- Vascular injuries: This includes cut arteries and internal bleeding
- Anesthesia mistakes: These errors can cause awareness during surgery or brain damage
Our Chicago medical negligence attorneys will review your records to see if negligence occurred.
The Compassion You Deserve And The Tenacity You Need
Nolan Law Group has earned a reputation for excellence among Chicago medical negligence law firms. Further, we possess a staunch commitment to helping injured patients and their loved ones pursue justice. We help you obtain the compensation Illinois law says you are entitled to receive.
We have been fighting for the legal rights and interests of patients for more than 40 years. We understand how difficult it can be to pursue legal action against a trusted health care provider. We are dedicated to helping our clients through every step of the process. A successful case means justice for you, and it can send a powerful message offering protection so other patients do not experience the same trauma in the future.
If you or someone you love was the victim of general medical negligence, was the victim of negligence during childbirth or suffered a surgical injury, the medical malpractice Chicago attorneys at Nolan Law Group may be able to help.
To schedule a complimentary review of your case, please contact us today at 312-820-2071 or send us an email.