Los Angeles Medical Malpractice Attorney

Medical malpractice is professional negligence by health care provider members including doctors, dentists, therapists, nurses, pharmacists and more. Medical malpractice occurs through act or omission, which breach their duty under accepted standards of practice in the medical community.  This standard varies by jurisdictions although under modern uniform medical knowledge, such variation is slight.

Some medical malpractice claims can be extremely complicated and difficult when a case involves an issue of whether the plaintiff health care provider failed to render a reasonable diagnosis.  Due to a high level of medical knowledge involved in a case, expert witnesses with superior medical knowledge in the relevant field of malpractice are involved in litigations.  In a case involving physician’s negligence, difficulty often involves proving whether the doctor deviated from a reasonable medical standard as medical diagnosis can vary depending on doctors who may use different sets of medical knowledge to interpret a symptom.

In addition, it is often very difficult to persuade the jury that the plaintiff doctor was at fault due to people’s general respect and deference to doctors’ opinions.

Health care providers carry a medical malpractice insurance to prepare for cases.  Insurance companies fight tooth and nail on medical malpractice claims as damages often involve millions of dollars.

On the other hand, medical malpractice cases can be a relatively simple case when it involves an undisputed negligence by health care providers which occurred from human errors, lack of attention, switching drugs or fatigue.

In all cases, medical malpractice cases must be handled by a knowledgeable attorney who can aggressively fight against insurance companies in proving negligence and damages.  Damages may involve medical fees for current and future treatments to repair the negligently caused results, pain and suffering including physical pain and emotional distress, loss of earning, loss of happiness and livelihood, wrongful death, and loss of consortium.

At Peter Park Law Firm, we understand that every layer of pain and loss counts towards your deserved future compensation.  We are very compassionate for victims of medical malpractice.  Talk to our Los Angeles medical malpractice lawyer about your case.