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Hospital Malpractice Lawyer
Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald has been handling hospital malpractice claims for more than 30 years. Many of these claims resulted in multi-million-dollar jury verdicts and settlements, including the top medical malpractice verdict in the nation in 2002--$94.8 Million (Lawyers Weekly, USA).
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Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald Hospital Malpractice / Negligence Cases
Below are a few of the hundreds of hospital malpractice cases Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald has handled:
- $94,812,240 jury verdict: hospital malpractice in failure to prescribe medication to enhance fetal lung development
Result: cerebral palsy
- $31,575,000 jury verdict: hospital malpractice in failure to properly monitor neonate’s blood-gas level and failure to diagnose the metabolic acidosis
Result: permanent brain damage, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, diplegia
- $20,800,000 jury verdict: hospital negligence in failure to perform exchange transfusion
Result: massive brain damage
- $15,000,000 jury verdict: hospital negligence in failure to equip and staff labor room with the capabilities to resuscitate a premature infant
Result: periventricular leukomalacia and spastic diplegia cerebral palsy
What Constitutes Hospital Malpractice/ Negligence?
Hospital negligence occurs when a hospital does not meet the accepted professional standard of competence, resulting in provable damages to the patient. A hospital is responsible for doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals employed by the hospital. In order to prove negligence, there must be testimony of an expert as to the acceptable standard of care that should have been applied to the situation and the expert must testify that the care that was given did not meet the criteria.
Below are some common situations that can give rise to a hospital malpractice/ negligence case:
- Birth injury or birth trauma
- Failure to diagnose
- Failure to monitor a patient
- Failure to order proper tests
- Failure to perform timely Cesarean (Caesarean) delivery
- Failure to treat an illness
- Failure to stabilize a patient
- Giving the wrong medication
- Improper use of anesthesia
- Improper use of a medical device
- Incorrect treatment of a diagnosed illness
- Surgical procedure errors
This Web site contains Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
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The jury verdicts reported on this site have, in many cases, been reduced by the Appellate Court or by post trial motions. This is common with jury verdicts. Prior results cannot guarantee or predict a similar outcome on any future matter.
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Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald, P.C. is a firm of trial lawyers based in New York with a national practice. We are capable of representing clients in every state of the United States. In New York our trial attorneys appear daily in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens and Staten Island (Richmond County). We also appear regularly in the counties of Westchester (Yonkers), Suffolk, Nassau and Orange. We have of counsel attorneys covering Rockland County, Dutchess County, Albany, Buffalo and all other New York counties. In New Jersey we have of counsel attorneys covering the counties of Passaic, Bergen, Hudson, Essex, (Newark), Union, Middlesex, Somerset, Mercer, (Trenton) Camden and Monmouth. We also have a network of of counsel attorneys with whom we work throughout the United States.
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