DWhen you visit a Riverside hospital, do you expect to be harmed? Do you expect your condition to worsen? If you are like most people, the answer to both those questions was likely no. What are your expectations when you seek medical attention? You likely expect to be treated skillfully and diligently by medical professionals. You expect your doctors to effectively identify any ailments and begin treatment so that you could return to your normal lifestyle as soon as possible. You trust that the medical professionals at the hospital which you attend will provide you with the care you need.
Unfortunately, many people who trust medical professionals have become victims of medical malpractice. Were you a victim of a wrongful DVT diagnosis? Did your DVT go undiagnosed until you developed deadly complications? If a doctor’s or a hospital’s negligent actions resulted in harm, you might have grounds to file a lawsuit and receive compensation. If you are interested in taking action against the party or parties liable for your wrongful DVT diagnosis, you must contact a Riverside attorney who can file a deep vein thrombosis lawsuit.
Normandie Law Firm is a law firm with experience in missed wrong diagnosis of DVT dedicated to the unfortunate victims of medical malpractice in Riverside. You can trust that our experienced attorneys will always fight for your right to sue and receive compensation. Our law firm has successfully handled many medical malpractice claims—including DVT malpractice claims—all over Riverside. If you want to take action against the doctor or hospital that caused you harm, you must contact our law firm as soon as possible.
Deep Vein Thrombosis
Deep vein thrombosis—otherwise known as DVT—is a medical condition that causes blood clots in the legs as a result of an extended lack of activity. DVT is common in the medical field in patients who are bedridden or required to be on bed rest for long periods. DVT is characterized by swollen, discolored, warm, and painful legs. Regrettably, DVT is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed; therefore, patients develop life-threatening complications, such as postphlebitic syndrome and pulmonary embolism. Complications can result in chronic symptoms or can be deadly. Pulmonary embolism, for example, occurs when a blood clot in the leg dislodges and travels up to the lungs. The blood clot in the lungs the causes shortness of breath, chest pain, rapid heart rate, dizziness, coughing blood, and fainting, for example. Complications caused by DVT result in more than 50,000 preventable deaths per year.
DVT Malpractice and Liability
Who is liable for your wrongful DVT diagnosis? What is hospital liability for DVT if the emergency room failed to diagnose your deep vein thrombosis? If you are interested in filing a claim, you must first establish liability. To establish liability, you must go through the four elements of negligence—duty, breach, cause, and harm. All medical professionals owe a duty of care to their patients. They have a duty of care to treat their patients skillfully and diligently to ensure that their health improves. Medical professionals could breach their duty of care by failing to treat their patients skillfully and diligently. For example, if they fail to address the risk factors associated with DVT and fail to take preventative measures, they are breaching their duty to their patient. If a breach of duty causes the patient harm, the doctor or medical professional could be found liable. Medical negligence could also be transferred to hospitals based on vicarious liability. If your harm was caused by the negligent actions of any medical professional, you could file a lawsuit and fight for your right to compensation. For more information about establishing liability for your wrongful DVT claim, you must contact our law firm and request to speak with our experienced lawyers as soon as possible.
The Compensation Available for Recovery
If you suffered deep vein thrombosis as a result of the negligent actions of alleged medical professionals, you could file a lawsuit and be compensated. What compensation could you receive? How much is your DVT claim worth? These are both questions that should only be answered by an experienced deep vein thrombosis malpractice lawyer in Riverside. Although you need to speak with a DVT misdiagnosis lawsuit attorney before you can understand the compensation that you might be eligible to receive, you should be familiar with the different categories of compensation available for recovery. Some of the categories of compensation that you might be eligible to recover include some of the following:
- Medical expenses
- Lost income
- Pain and suffering
- Loss of consortium
- Funeral and burial costs
- Punitive damages
As you could see, there are many categories of compensation available for recovery. It does not matter if you were the victim or if a member of your family was the victim; you could be compensated. Our attorneys understand that monetary compensation cannot reverse time and prevent victims from being harmed. However, monetary compensation can mend some of the economic distress that victims of medical malpractice could suffer. When you allow our attorneys to handle your claim, you can be certain that they will aggressively fight for your right to recover the highest amount of compensation available for your claim. Our lawyers will never settle for less than your claim’s value—you can be certain that our attorneys will not rest until you are rightfully compensated.
The Statute of Limitations for Your DVT Claim
If you are interested in filing a DVT wrong diagnosis lawsuit after you were a victim of DVT medical malpractice in Riverside, you must contact our attorneys as soon as possible. You must act with a sense of urgency—your claim is time-sensitive. Your claim is subject to a statute of limitations—or a timeline to sue. If you do not file your claim within the deadline established by the statute of limitations, you could lose your right to sue. What statute of limitation applies to your medical malpractice claim? If you are interested in filing a claim, you must file your claim either within three years of the date of the malpractice or within one year of discovering the malpractice. In addition to the time allowed by the statute of limitations, some exceptions might apply and toll or extend the time you have to sue. Since the timeline and the exceptions that apply to your claim are dependent on the specific details of your claim, you must contact a Riverside lawyer for suing your doctor form wrongful diagnosis of DVT as soon as possible. Our attorneys will evaluate your claim and ensure that you have a thorough understanding of the time that you have to file a claim.
Normandie Law Firm
Normandie Law Firm is a personal injury law firm dedicated to helping the victims of medical malpractice in Riverside hospitals. If you are a Riverside resident, you might be familiar with the following Riverside hospitals: Riverside Community Hospital, Parkview Community Hospital Medical Center, Pacific Grove Hospital, Riverside University Health System Inpatient Treatment Facility, and Kaiser Permanente Riverside, for example. If you were harmed in any of the hospitals listed above, you must contact our law firm. If you want more information about how you could sue urgent care, sue the emergency room, sue the doctor, or sue the hospital, you must contact our law firm and request to speak with a DVT malpractice attorney as soon as possible.
Normandie Law Firm is dedicated to providing all victims of DVT wrongful diagnosis with access to legal assistance. We believe that all harmed victims should have access to our experienced attorneys to receive the legal guidance necessary to take action against the parties liable for their DVT. Therefore, our law firm offers free consultations and free second opinions to all victims of a wrongful DVT diagnosis. During our free consultations and free second opinions, our missed diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis lawsuit attorneys in Riverside will provide you with all the information you need to begin your legal process. Our experienced Riverside lawyers will answer all your questions, address all your concerns, and provide you with the guidance necessary to sue for urgent care failure to diagnose DVT. If you have already considered suing the party liable for your DVT, you might have already spoken with an attorney at another law firm. If so, you might be interested in benefiting from our free second opinions in which a failure to diagnose DVT attorney in Riverside could clarify the doubts and confusion left by the incompetent attorneys with which you might have already spoken. Our DVT failure to diagnose lawyers in Riverside will help you get your claim back on the right track towards successfully recovering the compensation to which you are entitled. Do not hesitate—contact Normandie Law Firm today.
Our free consultations and free second opinions are available as part of our Zero-Fee guarantee. Because of our Zero-Fee guarantee, our clients will never have to worry about paying any upfront legal fees for any of our legal services. Our Zero-Fee guarantee also establishes our contingency status. Therefore, our clients will never be required to pay legal fees until after our Riverside lawyers win their claims, and they receive their compensation. For more information, you should contact the experienced Riverside attorneys at our law firm as soon as possible.
