Medical Negligence
Medical and Healthcare professionals are essential services that everybody around relies on for treatment purposes on day-to-day basis. When there is a failure by healthcare professionals or medical professionals in providing medical treatment or unreasonable delay or misdiagnosed in the standard of care then you can bring a medical negligence claim against the professionals.
If you suffered an injury as a result of failure of the medical professional or healthcare professional you may be entitled to compensation for medical negligence claim. Further your family members can also being a claim for professional misconduct by the medical professional. The claim will be for psychological harm of the family member who lost their loved one because of the negligence of the medical professional. These includes the following where claim for medical negligence can be brought against:
- Dentists
- Doctors
- Nurses
- Physiotherapists
- Optometrists
- Chiropractors
- Hospital staffs and Specialists doctors
Medical Negligence claim also known as Medical Malpractice claims. This is complex area of law where a person needs to establish an injury and loss of income or damages as a result of failure of the medical professional to take reasonable care to preclude the injury. This needs to be determined and established by the peer medical professionals of Australia. This further requires evidence after evidence to establish the injury and prove negligence in the eyes of the law.
Whether you are eligible for medical negligence claim?
If you have suffered an injury as a result of the medical professional’s failure to take reasonable standard of care to prevent the injury, then you can bring a claim for medical negligence. We need to establish that the treatment provider has breached their duty of care.
Is there any time limitation to bring medical negligence claim?
Overall, to claim medical negligence claim you need to bring the claim within 3 years of the date of the injury to claim compensation for the injury or loss of income under the medical negligence pretext.
What are your entitlements to claim?
- Damages for pain & suffering
- Past and future loss of income or wages.
- Loss of superannuation
- Domestic or nursing assistance
- Services provided to your family.
- Past and future medical treatment and expenses
- Home and vehicle modification
What are the common types of medical negligence injuries?
- Birth trauma
- Dental & oral unnecessary procedures
- Emergency or Paramedics failed to provide care
- Failure of the doctor’s diagnosis or referrals
- Failure of the hospital care
- Failure to take informed consent.
- Failure to diagnose the treatment.
- Medication error
- Surgery error
We here at Sher legal have dedicated team of lawyers that will look after you and ensure you that you are in safe hands in relation to medical negligence claim. We leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom of the problem in order to bring successful medical negligence claim. We operate on no win no fee basis. Which means you will only pay us if you win your case of medical negligence.
