Finding a Medical Malpractice Lawyer?
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Question by basketballfan: Finding a Medical Malpractice Lawyer?
I’m trying to find a lawyer to represent my dad in a medical malpractice case. Spoken to 3 Boston area attorneys who all say he seems to have a case. The problem is the big firm says it only takes multi million dollar cases, the smaller lawyers don’t want to put up the money for expert witnesses. My question is IF he seems to have a case of neglect how can he find an attorney that will take the case and file the claim? Can he do it without a lawyer? Is there a way to reach muliple lawyers with one email blast to see if any takers?
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Answer by drewxjacobs
There are many personal injury lawyers out there and all of them work on a contigency, contingent upon you winning and they receive a third of the settlement.
There are a couple of different kinds of these lawyers, however. Lawyers that litigate and those who don’t. The trial lawyers are expecting to take the case to trial or prepare for it anyway (many will defendents will settle out of court prior to the trial date and many do not). These are the bigger types of settlements. The lawyers that do not litigate prepare your case in anticipation of an out of court settlement.
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March 27th, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Well, you already know the problem.. if it was truly a slam dunk case one of them would be willing to pony up the money up front to rep him on contingency. Trust me, if any attorney sees a cash cow, he would have signed you up! Medical malpractice is really hard to win, it is so hard to second guess what a doctor should do at that moment in time.
He can’t do it himself, none of the expert witnesses would even cooperate with him, and they all want paid up front. If your dad has the $10,000 to pay the expert witnesses, he should offer that to the attorney he likes as a retainer and they can attempt his case.
April 22nd, 2011 at 11:40 am
I had the same experience with my mother. I believe she would have been entitled to receive some compenstation for pain and suffering for an infection that was not diagnosed at the hospital (c-diff) but I got the feeling that the lawyers I contacted weren’t interested because there wasn’t enought potential money to be made. This bothered me because old people, who are not income producers and not heads of a household, don’t seem to be worth that much to the legal system. I even wonder if the hospital would have been more cautious about releasing her if she had been a young woman with a job and a family.