If your urgent care provider makes a mistake, you could suffer unnecessary pain, accumulate additional medical bills, or even end up with a permanent disability. In such a situation, you could qualify for financial compensation.
With help from a Harford County urgent care medical malpractice lawyer from Adam Smallow Injury Lawyers, you could fight for a fair settlement or jury award without having to confront the liable party yourself. We would assign a fair value to your case and work hard to ensure you recover that amount so you don’t have to.
Filing Your Medical Malpractice Case on Time
The statute of limitations—in other words, the deadline by which you must file your case—is a little more complex in medical malpractice cases versus other kinds of Maryland personal injuries. Per Md. Cts. & Jud. Proc. Code § 5-109, you can file:
- Within five years of when you sustained the injury
- Within three years of when you discovered the injury
- Within these deadlines after the victim reaches 11 or 16 years of age, if they were younger than that when the injury occurred
If laws like this one confuse you, do not worry. Adam Smallow Injury Lawyers can explain it and any other concept connected to your medical malpractice case.
We believe that all medical malpractice survivors deserve the chance to recover compensation without having to do all—or any—of the work themselves. Our team can, among other things:
- Give you a free case review over the phone
- Provide you with a number you can text 24/7 for advice or general questions
- Investigate the circumstances surrounding the malpractice
- Recommend top-notch doctors to diagnose and treat your injuries
- Identify the liable party and send them a demand letter asking for a settlement
- Field phone calls and other forms of communication from the responsible party and their representatives
- Negotiate a fair settlement with the other party’s insurance company
- Take the at-fault party to court, if that is the best way of recovering compensation for you and your family
In return for these and other services, we would charge only a contingency fee. That means you owe us nothing in attorney’s fees unless and until after you recover damages.
For legal consultation with a urgent care attorney in Harford County, call (410)777-8960
Getting What You Need After Urgent Care Medical Malpractice
Your ultimate goal is twofold: to hold the negligent party accountable for their actions and to receive a personal injury settlement or jury award that meets your needs. Our office can calculate how much you deserve for each of the following categories and more:
- Pain and suffering: Medical malpractice can cause both physical and mental pain. No matter what symptoms you have experienced, the liable party should pay for them.
- Loss of consortium: Serious injuries can have a big impact on your familial relationships. For example, you might be unable to connect emotionally with your children or enjoy conjugal relations with your spouse.
- Disability: Physical and intellectual disabilities can prevent you from using your body and mind in all of the ways you used to do. You might need assistive devices, like a wheelchair or a cane.
- Medical expenses: After a medical malpractice incident, you could need treatment for new problems or the condition that sent you to urgent care in the first place.
- Loss of income: The more serious your injury, the longer you may have to stay home from work and miss out on paychecks your family depends on.
Who should pay for these and other damages? Our Harford County urgent care medical malpractice lawyer can help you decide whether you should direct your case against:
- An individual care provider, like a doctor or nurse
- The urgent care center as a whole
- A third party, such as the manufacturer of faulty medical equipment
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Urgent Care Versus Other Medical Options
As Mayo Clinic explains, there are three main facilities you could visit if you need medical care. Each specializes in handling situations of a different level of urgency. In order, they are:
- The emergency room: This is for the most serious, acute situations. If you are in imminent danger, go to the ER.
- Urgent care: If your condition is potentially serious but not immediately threatening, urgent care is the place to go.
- Primary care: You can wait to see your regular doctor for a general check-up or treatment for any non-urgent matter.
The doctors and staff at each of these facilities are trained to help you, but they are only human. If they are rushed or distracted—or, in rarer cases, if they decide to act maliciously—you could pay the price.
What Urgent Care Medical Malpractice Looks Like
Medical malpractice could occur at an urgent care facility in several ways, including:
- Misdiagnosis: For example, your provider says you have Condition A when, in reality, you have Condition B. They could end up giving you treatments that do not work or are actively harmful to someone with Condition B. Meanwhile, your health continues to deteriorate as Condition B goes untreated.
- Failure to treat: Doctors do not always take patient concerns as seriously as they should. If they fail to perform reasonable tests or ask the right questions, you could have a malpractice case on your hands.
- Failure to warn: If a doctor recommends a treatment, they must tell you about its benefits and risks. Otherwise, you cannot make an informed decision about your treatment options.
A final word of advice: not getting the result you want does not automatically mean there was malpractice. Our team would be glad to evaluate your case at no charge and let you know if you were the victim of urgent care medical malpractice in Harford County.
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Our Hartford County Medical Malpractice Lawyers Can Help Now
The longer you delay filing a case, the harder it may be to collect the damages you deserve. Call Adam Smallow Injury Lawyers today and get a free case review. Our team can assess your case and explain how our Harford County urgent care medical malpractice lawyer would fight for you.
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