When a patient seeks care from a medical provider, they have the right to expect to receive reasonable care and professionalism. Patients have the right to expect their health care providers to have the knowledge and experience in the areas they practice and to deliver competent medical care.

Unfortunately, that’s not always the case.

Healthcare providers who cause patients to suffer a permanent, disabling injury or death need to be held accountable for those errors.

Types of malpractice cases we handle include:

• Delay in diagnosing a medical condition or cancer;
• Failing to diagnose a medical condition or cancer;
• Anesthesia Errors;
• Emergency Room Errors;
• Surgical Errors During an Operation;
• Objects left behind after surgery;
• Birth Injury, including Cerebral Palsy and Brain Damage;
• Prescription Drug Errors;
• Misuse of a Medical Device or Implant.

If you have been seriously or catastrophically injured as a result of a doctor, health care provider, or a hospital’s failure to give you competent medical care - you should talk with an attorney as soon as possible.

The time period to bring a lawsuit against a medical provider or hospital in most cases is two and a half years.

However, if the medical malpractice results from a municipal or government run and operated hospital, such as SUNY Upstate and Community General Hospital, the time limits are much shorter – you have only 90 days to protect yourself.

The Veteran’s Administration Hospital has it’s own set of rules and time-lines that must be followed. If you are a victim of malpractice that occurred at the VA, don’t lose your rights to compensation because you didn’t file the proper forms in time.

Consulting with an attorney, as soon as possible, will protect your rights.