Medical Malpractice

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The operating room…

Imagine: your loved one is being wheeled away on a gurney toward the operating room. You worry some but the doctor reassures you that everything is going to turn out “ok” and that this is standard procedure. You walk back to sit with your family and wait, hoping and praying. Hours pass by and finally the doctor walks into the waiting room. You eagerly stand up awaiting good news, but the good news doesn’t come. Something has gone wrong and your life and life of your loved one will be forever changed.

Each day, thousands of Americans place their lives in the hands of medical professionals and each day someone is harmed as the result of preventable medical error. Every year, between 40,000 to 90,000 Americans die due to these preventable errors and cost society between $17 and $29 billion. This negligence, known as “medical malpractice” occurs when a physician fails to exercise the due care required of someone in that respective medical field. This could apply to pharmacists who errantly fill prescriptions to open heart surgeons who fail to use a standard accepted method during surgery. The most seemingly simple mistake could cause a lifetime of pain for you and your loved ones.

Arriving Home…

The saga continues, as you or your loved one arrives home after months in the hospital undergoing rehabilitative therapy. You have constant pain and find that you can no longer take place in the activities that you once enjoyed. Simply making a sandwich has turned into a frustrating, and at times excruciating experience. Furthermore, you’ve had to quit work and now have no way of providing for your family. You’ve been in contact with the doctor’s insurance company and realize that the physical and mental pain you felt as a result of the doctor’s mistake pale in comparison to the insult you felt when the company offered you a negligibly low settlement. You feel like giving up and breaking under the weight of physical pain and surmounting medical bills. Then you realize that you can’t give up.

Fight back with Castle Law.

The lawyers at Castle Law realize one thing: medical malpractice claims can be very difficult to deal with. On one side, you have doctors wanting to protect their reputations and jobs and on the other side, you have the greedy insurance industry wanting to do everything in its power to protect its profits, leaving you stuck in the middle simply wanting something, anything, that will make your life normal again. We realize the peculiar position that you are in and that is the very reason we became attorneys. Castle Law aims to provide a specialized service to people that only lawyers can provide.

As members of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, we believe in the fundamental right of fairness for people injured by negligent physicians. Plaintiffs in medical malpractice suits have the odds stacked against them and it takes a caring, compassionate, and skillful attorney to guide them through such a harsh system. Make no mistake about it: insurance companies will employ as many bad faith tactics as they can to protect their staggering profits. The top ten insurance companies made over $25 billion in profits in 2003 and they are not going to let that money slip away quietly. Insurance companies employ skillful attorneys to quickly litigate medical malpractice claims in their favor. Do not be a victim twice! The skilled lawyers at Castle Law have been helping the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, and Illinois deal with medical malpractice claims for over 13 years. We will fight insurance companies tooth and nail to guarantee the results you deserve. While we can’t promise that an insurance payment will completely restore your life, it will help. You deserve justice and you deserve to be treated fairly. Let Castle Law help you fight for your rights and fight to take the first step on the road to a better life.

If you or a loved one have been injured as a result of a negligent physician, call Castle Law today for a free consultation!