Baton Rouge Medical Malpractice Lawyers
Our medical malpractice lawyers represent injured people as well as doctors and hospitals in cases involving medical negligence claims, including:
- Failure to diagnose cancer and other diseases
- Surgical errors
- Birth trauma injuries such as cerebral palsy and Erb's palsy
- Surgical mistakes
- Brain trauma
- Hospital and emergency room mistakes
Louisiana has a medical malpractice statute, which limits the recovery of medical malpractice victims. Plaintiffs (injured people) must go through a panel process where the attorneys for each side choose a doctor, and the two doctors chosen by the two parties choose a third doctor which forms the "medical review panel" who evaluate whether a particular provider has breached a standard of care. If the panel finds that a standard of care has been breached, such as a failure to diagnose disease, then your lawyer must hire medical experts to prepare a case for trial. Your attorney must file your medical malpractice claim within three years or you lose the ability to recover compensation.
Our lawyers have considerable experience with Louisiana's medical malpractice law and know the stumbling blocks where many medical malpractice cases fail, such as preemptive issues that can result in your case being dismissed.
