In an effort to get support for his campaign for health care reform, President Obama told the American Medical Association that he would work with doctors to limit how vulnerable they are in medical malpractice lawsuits.
Our firm’s San Diego personal injury attorneys believe doctors should be held responsible for personal injury if their treatments or medical procedures cause further personal injury or wrongful death.
Medical malpractice lawsuits can raise insurance premiums paid by doctors in some high-risk specialties like obstetrics (childbirth) and neurosurgery. Those increases are usually passed on to patients leading to higher medical bill costs.
The current medical malpractice system fails to compensate some victims of malpractice lawsuits because those who have them do not file after their personal injury or wrongful death. The president did not specify which medical malpractice reform he favors, but he has rejected putting caps on malpractice settlements. These caps would be unfair to people with severe personal injury by physician errors who need substantial compensation.
There are alternatives like setting up a panel of neutral experts to hear medical malpractice lawsuits. Other suggestions are mediation or granting doctors presumptive protection in medical malpractice lawsuits if they followed recommended clinical practice guidelines.
No matter how medical malpractice is reformed, our personal injury attorneys in San Diego believe Americans with personal injury due to a medical mistake should be able to hold a doctor responsible if they are found liable for the personal injury.
Call us now at 1-800-655-6585 or click here for a free consultation with an experienced San Diego personal injury attorney and find out how we can help you. We speak English and Spanish, and we look forward to providing advice for your case. No fee if no recovery.
About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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