Practice Areas - Medical Malpractice

In its 1999 report, the Institute of Medicine, the nation's most respected adviser on medical science, found preventable medical errors to be the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, contributing to up to 98,000 deaths annually.

A study by the New England Journal of Medicine found that thirteen out of every one hundred patients is subjected to medical malpractice. The American Medical Association acknowledges that 15% of physicians, nurses and hospital personnel are under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

Despite this large number of errors, most victims of medical malpractice never file a claim. A Harvard University study revealed that only one in eight persons injured by medical negligence ever files a claim.

At Benner & Foran , our medical malpractice referrals are reviewed by a registered nurse/licensed attorney as well as medical professionals practicing the same specialty as the potential defendant(s).

Please contact us if you believe yourself or someone you know is a victim of medical malpractice.

Recent Development in Medical Malpractice Legislation

The United States' Senate recently voted against the latest attempt to prevent victims of medical malpractice for being adequately compensated for their pain and suffering. Senate Bill 11 if passed, would have capped a victim's non-economic damages at $250,000.00. Proponents of the bill claimed that malpractice costs were making insurance unaffordable for physicians. This is simply untrue. In the United States, malpractice insurance accounted for only one-half of one percent of the total spending on health care in 2001 according to date from the Statistical Abstract of the United States and A. M. Best, the insurance industry's leading provider of information.

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