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Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorneys

Standing Up to Major Medical Providers & Institutions

The first rule of medical care is supposed to be to “do no harm” to patients. Yet a landmark Johns Hopkins University study determined that medical mistakes cause around 250,000 deaths each year in the U.S., as well as countless other nonfatal complications and permanent disabilities. If you or a loved one have become part of this upsetting statistic, it’s important to know that you have the right to use legal action to demand compensation and justice for your harm and losses.

Trust Hilliard Law with your medical malpractice claim or lawsuit filed in Chicago, Illinois. We bring decades of practice experience to every case we work on, as well as a reputation of success and tireless tenacity that sends an early warning to any opposing parties. As trial lawyers, we can even take any case to court if needed, something that many other firms are not equipped to do, especially when challenging medical providers and healthcare institutions. If you think our caliber of legal service is right for your medical malpractice case, connect with us today.

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What Constitutes Medical Malpractice in Illinois?

During any medical procedure, mistakes can happen. However, when a mistake reasonably shouldn’t have happened and that mistake resulted in an injury to the patient, it could constitute medical malpractice to the degree that an injury lawsuit becomes justified. Another way to put it is that if a different medical provider reasonably would not have made the same harmful mistake in a similar situation, then medical malpractice likely occurred.

Four elements are usually required to be present in a medical malpractice claim, too, including:

  1. Duty of care: The medical provider must have owed a duty of care to the patient that requires them to provide medical care that meets accepted standards. Doctor-patient relationships usually establish this duty of care.
  2. Breach of care: The medical provider must have breached that duty of care by providing medical care that failed to meet accepted standards in one or more ways.
  3. Injury: The substandard or abnormal medical care that was provided by the medical provider must have injured the patient in some way, which can include failing to treat an existing condition.
  4. Damages: The injury suffered by the patient must have caused them some form of appreciable loss, including economic and non-economic losses.

Types of Medical Malpractice Cases

At Hilliard Law, we take pride in our vast knowledge and experience of medical malpractice cases and the different medical mistakes that start these cases. If you or a loved one were hurt by a medical provider’s mistakes, including those caused by doctors, nurses, surgeons, pharmacists, and so on, we can help you with your claim.

We can work on all types of medical malpractice cases in Chicago, such as:

  • Abandonment or failure to attend to a patient
  • Erroneous continuation of an ineffective treatment
  • Prenatal diagnostic testing errors
  • Failure to get informed consent from the patient
  • Failure to diagnose correctly or on time
  • Improper prescription of a drug or medication
  • Incorrect order of triage in an emergency room
  • Surgical errors

Damages in a Chicago Medical Malpractice Case

You deserve compensation if a medical error has left you seriously injured and disrupted your family’s financial stability. Hilliard Law in Chicago knows how to fight for it. We are used to going to trial for our clients in pursuit of massive compensation totals, including many successful cases that returned millions of dollars for our clients. No matter how much compensation you should be provided by the negligent medical provider or healthcare group, we’ll be ready to fight for every penny.

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