Hospital Malpractice

Hospital malpractice occurs when a healthcare provider engages in substandard or negligent medical care that causes harm to a patient. If you or someone you love has suffered harm as a result of hospital negligence, you may qualify to seek and recover compensation for your suffering.

For more information, contact an experienced Connecticut medical malpractice lawyer at The Berkowitz Law Firm. Our medical malpractice attorneys provide high quality, committed legal representation for individuals and families who have been harmed as a result of a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, or other hospital employee's medical negligence.

Types of Hospital Malpractice

There are many ways in which a healthcare provider can cause harm to a patient. Following are some examples of hospital malpractice:

  • Missed diagnosis of a fatal condition or injury
  • Failure to properly treat a patient
  • Failure to provide timely treatment in an emergency situation
  • Failure to order the proper diagnostic tests
  • Misreading test results
  • Prescribing the wrong type or wrong dose of a medication
  • Mistakes during surgery such as wrong site surgery
  • Accidentally switching patient charts
  • Improper use of anesthesia
  • Hospital borne infection
  • Failing to properly use medical equipment

Who Qualifies to File a Hospital Malpractice Lawsuit?

Being unhappy with the medical care you received is not enough to file a claim. There are certain things that must occur in order to have a basic claim, including the following:

  • You must have proof of a doctor-patient relationship
  • Doctor negligence must be proven (in other words, you must be able to prove that a competent doctor would have provided different treatment if presented with the same circumstances)
  • There has to be a direct link from the negligence to the injury (this can be difficult to prove as many patients are already sick or injured)
  • Specific damages such as chronic pain, permanent disabilities, lost earning capacity have to be proven

Hospital negligence cases can be complicated and difficult to prove. It is important to have an experienced medical malpractice lawyer on your side from the very beginning to ensure the best outcome in your case. If you believe you've been harmed by hospital negligence, contact a Connecticut hospital malpractice lawyer at The Berkowitz Law Firm for qualified legal representation.

  • $9,000,000.00 medical malpractice recovery against an obstetrician and a hospital whose failure to timely deliver the infant plaintiff, despite signs of fetal distress, left her severely brain damaged.
  • $6,100,000.00 settlement against a hospital and two physicians on behalf of a client who sustained permanent paralysis following the administration of anesthesia and prior to undergoing an anterior cervical discectomy.
  • $4,750,000.00 medical malpractice award on behalf of a child who sustained brain damage as a result of a hospital's negligent airway management.
  • $4,000,000.00 medical malpractice verdict against a gynecologist who caused the plaintiff to undergo a hysterectomy following a negligent surgical procedure and destroyed her ability to bear children.
  • $3,000,000.00 medical malpractice recovery against an anesthesiologist whose negligent administration of spinal anesthesia left an infant plaintiff profoundly brain damaged.
  • $3,000,000.00 medical malpractice settlement on behalf of a brain damaged newborn against a hospital as a result of the hospital's failure to timely deliver said newborn despite signs and symptoms of fetal distress.
  • $2,600,000.00 wrongful death verdict against a family practitioner and a urologist whose failure to timely diagnose prostate cancer led to the plaintiff's death.
  • $2,500,000.00 settlement against a radiologist for his failure to timely diagnose the plaintiff's spinal tumor which progressed to metastatic late stage cancer.
  • $2,450,000.00 total award against a hospital for its failure to properly restrain a hospital psychiatric patient who jumped out of a hospital window and fell three stories sustaining a permanent brain injury.
  • $2,300,000.00 medical malpractice settlement against a hospital following its failure to diagnose a bacterial infection causing a child to go into respiratory arrest and without oxygen for 20 minutes leading to the child's brain damage.

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