Medical Malpractice

Connecticut Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice occurs when a doctor, nurse or another healthcare provider's negligence or recklessness leads to an injury, death, or worsened illness. Unfortunately, medical malpractice is one of the leading causes of serious injuries and deaths in the United States.

At The Berkowitz Law Firm, we understand that medical mistakes are devastating events and can lead to a lifetime of disability and hardship. Our experienced legal team serves as tireless advocates for injured patients and their families and aggressively fights to ensure all responsible parties are held accountable for their actions.

Traumatic Injuries Caused by Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice and negligence can occur in a variety of scenarios, ranging from wrong site surgery to misreading of x-rays or other medical test results. Despite the cause, mistakes made by medical professionals often lead to irreversible, traumatic injuries including:

Paralysis
Birth injuries such as Cerebral Palsy
Traumatic brain injuries
Advancement in the severity of a medical condition such as cancer
Heart attack, or heart failure
Organ damage
Nerve damage
Surgical infections
Death

Sadly, 10 percent of all hospital patients are harmed by medical mistakes, many of whom never recover. The experienced medical malpractice attorneys at our firm are dedicated to fighting for such victims and their families and have successfully recovered millions of dollars in compensation for our clients.

Click here to contact a Connecticut medical malpractice attorney with The Berkowitz Law Firm in Stamford, Connecticut or Danbury, CT today.

Meet the Attorneys

Recent Headlines at Berkowitz and Reinken

Russ Berkowitz has recently recovered $810,000.00 against a local high school and its school administrators and coaches on behalf of a high school student who sustained a fractured neck during an unsupervised, after school, off-season wrestling practice in the school’s gymnasium.

$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. Eric Blomberg and Russ Berkowitz represented the plaintiff.

Russ Berkowitz has been selected as a 2010 Super Lawyer...

$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.

$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.

Joanne Sheehan recently settled a medical malpractice case for $1,800,000.00 against an optometrist who caused a female plaintiff to sustain permanent vision loss in both eyes following the improper administration of ophthalmic steroids despite said optometrist's knowledge of the plaintiff's history of steroid induced eye pressure.

$4,000,000.00 medical malpractice verdict

$2,600,000.00 wrongful death verdict