Visits to the doctor’s office or a hospital are never fun. You’re there because you or a loved one is sick and you trust the doctors and nurses to provide the care you need. But what happens when a medical professional makes a mistake that another provider would not have?
The results of even the smallest mistakes can change your life in so many ways. A wrong or delayed diagnosis, a surgical error, a birth injury, medication mistakes, or failure to properly monitor a patient can lead to serious health issues that have a long-term impact. No matter how or why the mistakes happen, you’re left dealing with pain, confusion, medical bills, and stress that you shouldn’t have to carry on your own.
Medical malpractice cases require an expert understanding of medicine, insurance, and Florida’s confusing liability laws. Weisser Law successfully handles cases involving errors, misdiagnoses, injuries, and more— giving our clients the experience and guidance they deserve.
Hospitals and their insurance companies have entire teams of people who are only worried about protecting themselves and stopping you from receiving the compensation you deserve. Hiring the right lawyer helps you understand your options and is extremely important in building your case.
Evidence disappears or can be changed. Memories fade, and there are strict deadlines that can ruin your case if you wait too long to act. Weisser Law is here to collect the medical records, review what went wrong, examine timelines, and get opinions from medical experts to prove how your care team failed to meet the standard of care.
You shouldn’t have to guess if what happened to you qualifies as malpractice. The veteran malpractice team at Weisser Law gives you clarity, protection, and a path forward for your case.
Types of Medical Malpractice
How are medical malpractice cases proven?
Medical malpractice is much more than just an outcome that you’re not happy with. You must prove that your provider failed to meet the standard of care and that their mistake led to you being injured or sick.
There are four main points that need to be proven as part of your medical malpractice case.
Duty of the Provider
When a medical provider agrees to care for you, there is a standard that they must meet while providing that care. As their patient, they must provide you with the same care that another reasonable provider would in the same situation.
Once they agree to treat you, they must do their job properly.
Breach of Duty
After a mistake is made, this is where your lawyer proves that it led to an injury or illness. Mistakes such as prescribing the wrong medication dose, misdiagnosing a symptom, or discharging a patient too early are examples of how a doctor, nurse, or other medical professional breached their duty.
Our medical experts will review your records and determine exactly where the treatment went wrong and how it should have been handled properly.
Causation
Causation proves that the mistake made your illness/injury worse or that it created a new medical issue that you are now dealing with. It’s not enough to prove that a doctor or nurse made a mistake; you must show that it made your condition worse.
Weisser Law connects those dots through expert opinions, medical records, and timelines to prove malpractice.
Damages (Collectibility)
Once you’ve proven those three things, this is where you must show that the mistake caused financial damage to you. That includes lost wages, ongoing treatment, medical bills, long-term health concerns, pain and suffering, and more.
Damages must be proven for your case to move forward.
Collectibility is the likelihood of receiving a payment and the amount it will be worth. Your lawyer will advise you on how provable your case is and how much you can realistically ask for in your medical malpractice suit.
Because each case is different, the amount of money you may receive will depend on the details of your case. Having an experienced lawyer on your side ensures that you receive the damages you deserve.
Who Can Be Held Liable in a Medical Malpractice Case?
It’s not just doctors and nurses who can be held liable if you’re injured in a medical malpractice case. Anyone who is involved in your medical care who does not meet the standard of care can be held liable.
That includes:
- Doctors and Surgeons
- Nurses
- Specialists
- Hospitals and Medical Centers
- Urgent Care Centers and Clinics
- Pharmacists
- Lab Techs
- Midwives or Birthing Centers
Medical Malpractice often involves more than one provider. Weisser Law will review your case in great detail to determine every person or facility that shares responsibility. That not only ensures you are compensated fairly, but it also makes sure that anyone who made a mistake is held responsible.
Serious injuries demand serious representation. With over 50 years of experience in courtrooms across Florida, the team at Weisser Law has the reputation and record you need to secure every dollar of compensation you deserve. Weisser Law, where exceptional experience means exceptional results.
- Mistakes made by medical professionals, no matter how small they may seem, can change your life in an instant. Injuries, long-term health problems, huge medical bills, and more can result from medical malpractice.
- Insurance companies and hospitals work hard to make sure you receive the minimum payment possible when they make a mistake. Having a lawyer on your side is critical when taking on big insurance companies.
- You must act fast! Evidence can disappear, memories fade, and strict deadlines can end your case before it even begins.
- To prove malpractice, you must show four things: the provider owed you a duty, they breached that duty, the mistake caused your injury, and you suffered real damages.
- You don’t have to sue just one party. Doctors, nurses, specialists, hospitals, clinics, pharmacists, and anyone else who made a mistake in your care can be held responsible.
- Having the right lawyer makes all the difference. Weisser Law gathers evidence, reviews your medical records, establishes a clear timeline of treatment, works with experts, and fights to get you the compensation you deserve.