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You bought a life insurance policy to give your family financial security if you die. Unfortunately, the life insurance company will do whatever it can to deny your family’s claim. The “Contestability Period” is the one or two years after you buy a life insurance...
Georgia hospitals are legally required to provide a safe patient environment, competent doctors, and reasonable medical support services for their patients. If a hospital-employed doctor commits malpractice, both the doctor and the hospital are liable. Phillips Law...
On August 25, 2023 we resolved a lawsuit for another client who suffered a nerve injury from a negligently placed needle during what should have been a routine blood draw. It may be surprising just how much damage can be caused to a person’s nerves running close to...
Life insurance companies often deny payments by twisting the words of their insurance applications to rescind, or take back, the insurance policy they issued. This allows them to return whatever premium was paid, and avoid paying a much larger amount to the policy...
In Georgia, patients who suffer harm from medical malpractice are entitled to compensatory damages. These damages include medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, and in death cases, the full value of the patient’s life. The word compensatory comes from...
This week, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study looking at the medical records of random patients in 11 Massachusetts hospitals in 2018. It found that almost one quarter of them suffered an “adverse event,” and 32% of these events caused...
Misinformation abounds in our news media about medical malpractice lawsuits. We often see stories arguing that the cost of defending malpractice lawsuits and compensating victims is a major component of the escalating cost of health care generally. Of course this...
When a person dies in Georgia from Medical Malpractice, Hospital, or pharmaceutical errors, or any other wrongful act, two different legal claims are created. First, family members have a “wrongful death” claim. The amount of this claim is the “full value” of the...
Georgia medical malpractice lawsuits must be filed within two years of the patient’s “injury or death.” If the patient is younger than five, the lawsuit must be filed by their seventh birthday. In most medical malpractice cases, it’s pretty obvious when this two-year...
Simply put, it’s negligence by a medical professional. Sounds pretty simple right? Until you unpack the word “negligence” in the medical context. For a layperson, “negligence” just means carelessness. In a car accident, or some other ordinary case, the defendant is...