Chicago Personal Injury Lawyer

Medical malpractice is generally defined as medical care that falls below the accepted professional standard of care. Any healthcare provider can be held liable if a patient can prove they had a duty to provide services, failed to perform as a similarly trained professional would, and that they caused damage as a result.

Unfortunately, medical malpractice happens daily in hospitals, clinics, and other care settings throughout the United States. Each year, millions of individuals are injured and thousands die due to medical malpractice by doctors, hospitals, medical professionals, and other healthcare providers. According to Johns Hopkins patient safety experts, more than 250,000 deaths per year in the U.S. are due to medical error.

Medical malpractice cases include claims involving patients who were injured or died because of the negligence, mistake, carelessness, error, or wrongdoing of a doctor, physician, medical professional, hospital, or other healthcare provider.

Some of the more common cases we handle include:

• Diagnostic errors
• Failure to diagnose a disease/illness
• Misdiagnosis of conditions/disorders
• Delayed diagnosis
• Treatment errors
• Delayed treatment
• Surgical errors
• Medication errors
• Failure to treat
• Failure to monitor
• Failure to obtain consent
• And more

At Kaveny + Kroll, we devote much of our practice to medical malpractice claims. With a full-time RN on staff, we can quickly evaluate complex medical records, identify failures in care, and build strong, evidence-backed cases. 

From providing proper notice of a pending lawsuit to the doctors who will be sued to obtaining an affidavit of merit, our diligent personal injury lawyers in Chicago can provide invaluable assistance throughout every stage of this type of claim.