Aurora Medical Malpractice

Our Colorado Medical Malpractice Attorneys Can Help You Understand Your Rights

As a patient, you have more rights than you likely realize. Bachus & Schanker can help you to understand the extent of these rights and fight to protect them. If a medical professional’s unjustifiable actions hurt you or someone you love, recompense can be yours. 

When you hire Bachus & Schanker, you benefit from having an attorney, advocate, and ally on your side in your fight for compensation.

What Is Medical Negligence?

Medical negligence involves more than a simple error. Generally, medical negligence demands actions or failures to act that don’t uphold clear and acceptable standards of care. 

Because of medical negligence, thousands of people and their families suffer immense pain and setbacks each year. Fortunately, medical malpractice claims can bring victims some measure of relief through compensation payments. 

Types Of Medical Malpractice And Negligence

Sadly, numerous types of medical malpractice are common. Malpractice can happen at any stage of treatment. Common types include:

• Surgical negligence, including leaving objects in patients and wrong-site surgery
• Misdiagnosis, including missed diagnosis and delayed diagnosis
• Chart management errors and mix-ups
• Failure to treat and failure to treat in a reasonable time
• Distracted treatment of a patient
• Lack of experience and training to perform a treatment

Staffing and supervisory malpractice can also happen in Colorado.

Depending on the circumstances, various professionals may face medical malpractice liability for an event, including:

• Doctors
• Anesthesiologists
• Pathologists
• Physician’s assistants
• Nurses, including registered and vocational nurses
• Midwives
• Lab techs
• Testing and imaging technicians

When we take your medical malpractice case, we thoroughly investigate your situation to pinpoint the precise acts of malpractice and all of the individuals involved. 

In many cases, a hospital or medical facility employing a medically negligent professional may also be held vicariously liable for the professional’s acts of medical malpractice. Hospitals may be held directly liable for the malpractice as well. 

How Do You Prove Medical Negligence?

Proving malpractice can be highly complex. In every case, the victim’s attorney must answer:

• What standard of care should have been upheld?
• How did the care the victim received deviate from said standard?

Answering these questions takes medical research and witnesses. Aurora medical malpractice lawyers work closely with these professionals to build compelling cases. 

Of course, the defendant and their insurance company will push back. However, if medical malpractice has indeed occurred, you can expect your attorney to push back even harder. 

Bad Results

Patients must understand that most medical procedures and treatments come with risks of bad results. A bad result can still manifest even with the highest degree of care. In medical malpractice cases, bad results must be accompanied by “bad medicine” or substandard treatment and care. 

What Are The Types Of Damages You Can Recover In A Medical Malpractice Case?

Victims of medical malpractice are entitled to seek damages that cover numerous economic and non-economic losses, including:

• Medical and hospital costs
• Prescription drug medication costs
• Expenses related to medical devices and testing
• Pain and suffering
• Mental anguish
• Loss of enjoyment of life

When considering damages, it is important to keep in mind the legislative caps on non-economic and medical malpractice damages. For many years, various caps limited victims’ and victims’ family members’ compensation in medical malpractice cases. 

Recently, these caps were updated and raised to much higher levels. Currently, non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases are set at $875,000 for non-fatal cases and $1,575,000 over a five-year period. 

When Should You File A Medical Malpractice Lawsuit?

If you are in the unfortunate position of dealing with malpractice, it is crucial that you file a lawsuit or seek compensation through a settlement within two years of the incident. However, the statute may be extended if the result of the malpractice is not readily apparent or known to the victim. 

The statute of limitations may also be extended if the victim is a minor. If the medical professional sought to conceal their malpractice, this could also extend it. 

Why Work With Bachus & Schanker?

At Bachus & Schanker, we understand the needs of medical malpractice victims and know how to serve them effectively. If you have suffered an injury due to medical malpractice, turn to our compassionate team. We can leverage our years of experience and extensive resources to advocate for you on your behalf. 

No amount of money can change the past. However, the money we recover for our clients provides powerful relief from the suffering medical malpractice injuries and fatalities can cause. 

Free Consultation With Our Medical Malpractice Law Firm

You deserve to be properly compensated for your losses due to medical malpractice. But insurance companies will try to pay you much less than you should receive, leaving you to deal with the aftermath of harm that wasn’t your fault. 

Bachus & Schanker knows how to hold them accountable. When you contact our team, we can review your case and advise you of every cent you are entitled to. It all starts with scheduling a free consultation.

Sources: 

Improving Diagnosis in Health Care. (2015).

Raise Damage Limit Tort Actions.

Wrong-Site, Wrong-Procedure, and Wrong-Patient Surgery. (2019).

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