At Bencoe & LaCour Law, PC, we believe that bringing forth valid, serious medical malpractice claims is essential for community safety. In many cases, our investigation reveals not just a single physician’s or nurse’s failure to apply the relevant standard of care, but systemic safety problems with a health facility’s policies and procedures. Sadly, the root cause of such problems can be a failure to communicate, overstaffing or under training – often motivated by cost control, or putting “profits over people.” When our law firm undertakes a medical malpractice case for you, we are deeply committed to working closely with well-matched health care professionals who can help us prove and teach a jury the factual basis of your claim. Such preparation is required for success with claims that require knowledge in a specialty field of medicine. Examples of potentially actionable malpractice include:

• Emergency room negligence such as delays in diagnosing and treating emergency medical conditions (including heart attacks)
• Other forms of hospital errors or negligence like hospital falls and delays in treating or referring patients for proper care, resulting in infection, worsening condition, birth injury or death
• Failures to diagnose cancer or other potentially fatal diseases and conditions
• Surgical mistakes such as leaving foreign objects in the body, operating on the wrong body part, causing spinal cord injury or anesthesia-related brain injury, or failing to respond in a timely manner to complications
• Prescription medication mistakes such as overdose, dispensing the wrong drug or wrong dose, or a drug interaction when this results in death, overdose or permanent injury such as brain damage
• Dental malpractice or negligence that results in permanent nerve injury, or orthodontic malpractice that results in loss of permanent teeth.