Trusted Medical Malpractice Lawyers in Lansing, MI 

There are few people in this world that our society puts more trust in than healthcare providers. We trust them with our lives, every single day. Medical treatment is supposed to make you better, not worse. When providers do not follow the standard of care, they can make patients sicker, leaving them with permanent pain and disability. The standard of care is what a reasonable healthcare provider would do in the same or similar circumstances to treat the patient. If a medical provider does not follow these standards, i.e. they act negligently, and an injury results, or a disease is worsened, then patients have the right to seek compensation for the financial losses they suffered due to preventable injuries. This is what the law calls medical malpractice or medical negligence. The top medical malpractice attorneys in Michigan at Hoffer & Sheremet, PLC, can help you assess the damages you've faced if you suffered a serious illness or injury because of a medical error. Our law firm serves Lansing, Michigan. We’re proud to represent this area, especially as Sheremet attended Michigan State University, and we are expert Ingham County attorneys with years of experience in medical malpractice cases. 

Lansing Injury Attorneys: Specializing in Michigan Medical Malpractice 

Practicing medicine is not just memorizing a bunch of facts; physicians must use their judgment on an individual basis because no two people have identical medical histories. Doctors who practice in a subspecialty of medicine (for example, neurology, obstetrics, and gynecology) have completed several years of medical residency in which they gained practical experience regarding how the medical conditions they studied in school occur in real life. They must also complete continuing medical education to keep their knowledge current about recent changes and available treatments. 

All of this means that, to prove a provider was negligent or completed a ‘malpractice’ while caring for a patient, they must prove, with another provider as witness, that the original provider did not meet the standard of care. Expert witnesses must come from the original provider's specialty and will eventually testify that the original provider breached the standard of care, and that this caused the patient’s injury or illness to worsen. This can be dauting for patients, but our medical malpractice lawyers in Lansing, MI can help you retain this witness and will even cover their fees upfront.  

After an expert witness is retained, we can begin investigating your case. We will help you gather medical records and prepare you for trial if it comes to that. The expert witness will help identify all of the standard of care violations that caused your injuries. This gives our medical negligence lawyers in Michigan everything they need to ensure your case is strong. 

When Medical Errors Worsen a Disease or Causes Illness or a Permanent Injury 

Bad judgment by a medical professional can cause a patient to suffer severe adverse consequences. Medical malpractice also applies when errors by the hospital administration, nurses, aides, or other hospital staff harm a patient. These are some types of medical malpractice that could be the direct result of any medical professionals’ errors:  

• Patients get injured as a result of falling from a bed or slipping on a hospital floor. These incidents are often preventable because hospital staff should ensure that the floors are free of slippery substances, bed alarms are used when needed, and nurses should provide adequate supervision and assistance for admitted patients walking in the hospital. The hospital should use wheelchairs or stretchers to transport patients who cannot walk safely, even with assistance. If you or a loved one has experienced a fall injury due to a hospital’s bad care, contact our personal injury lawyers in Lansing, we’re here to help. 

• A provider administers the wrong medication, or the wrong dose of a medication. These errors can be fatal if a patient needs lifesaving medication and does not receive it, or they can even suffer an overdose. 

• Surgical errors – Surgeons negligently cause any injury that is not a recognized risk of surgery, operate on the wrong body part, post-operative fails to rule out life threatening conditions, such as sepsis. If you believe your surgeon committed a medical error, medical negligence lawyers in Michigan are here, contact us today. 

• A nurse failing to report a change in patient status to the patient’s physician.  

• Birth injury – Medical negligence before, during, or immediately after childbirth can cause the child to suffer a lifelong disability. We have extensive experience with birth injury lawsuits and are the top lawyers in Lansing, MI for medical malpractice. Do not hesitate to contact us, by phone or our intake form, if your family has suffered due to bad medical care, especially concerning birth. 

• The provider did not order the correct diagnostic test, or enough testing to begin with. Another test would have enabled the provider to make a more accurate diagnosis and choose the right intervention for the patient’s care. If you’re unsure if you’ve experienced medical malpractice, our personal injury lawyers in Lansing are ready to further investigate the details of your possible claim.  

• Failure to timely identify and treat stroke.  

Whether the bad judgment and error was made by a doctor, nurse, or any type of healthcare provider, Michigan law requires plaintiffs to have experts from the same profession testify that errors occurred and led to the patient’s injuries.  

Personal Injury Lawsuits in Lansing, MI  

In a medical malpractice lawsuit, you must prove that a "professional relationship” existed between you and the defendant; in other words, that you sought medical care from the doctors, other healthcare providers, or hospital you are suing. You must also prove that the defendant breached the standard of care, i.e., made an error that another provider in a similar situation would not have.  This is what we mean by “negligence,” “malpractice,” or "professional negligence.” 

You must then prove that your present state of ill health, your injuries, your family member’s death, or your baby or child’s injuries are due to the mistake or negligence of the healthcare provider, as opposed to being a natural consequence of the illness or injury for which you sought treatment. You must also provide evidence of the financial losses you suffered as a result of the medical problems that the defendant’s negligence caused you. While this may sound overwhelming, working with the top medical malpractice lawyers in Michigan can help you better prove your case. The expert Ingham County attorneys at Hoffer & Sheremet are ready to investigate your possible claim, we provide completely free case reviews and initial consultations. 

Collecting Damages in a Medical Malpractice Case 

Many medical malpractice cases are settled before the case goes to trial. Part of deciding how much to settle for is a big decision that you will make with the help of your medical malpractice lawyers in Lansing. The defendant will never settle for the most amount that you can win at trial. It’s a compromise.  You can ask for compensation for the medical bills you have paid, or are likely to receive in the future, because of the health problems that resulted from the medical error. If you had to take a leave of absence from work or retire early because of these health problems, you can also seek damages for lost income. Medical expenses and lost income are known as “economic damages”. Additionally, you can seek “noneconomic damages”, also known as pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, scarring, or loss of companionship if a loved one died due to negligence. 

Contact a Lansing Injury Attorney 

Michigan medical malpractice attorneys are ready to listen to what happened to you or your loved one. The experts at Hoffer & Sheremet can help if you’ve suffered financial hardship because of a preventable medical error. Contact our medical malpractice law firm in Lansing, Michigan today, do not wait, there are deadlines to filing cases in Michigan. We’re ready to discuss your Lansing, MI medical malpractice claim, we’re here to listen.