Kansas City Medical Malpractice Attorney

What Is Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice develops from healthcare providers when their clinical actions or inactions decline beneath accepted patient care standards and cause harm. Medical malpractice occurs when healthcare providers either provide defective care or fail to perform essential medical duties. Doctors, nurses, hospitals, and other medical professionals fall under this category. Some common examples of medical malpractice include:

• Failure to Diagnose: When healthcare providers fail to identify conditions promptly, they are unable to treat patients effectively.
• Misdiagnosis: An incorrect condition diagnosis results in wrong medical care and additional unnecessary healthcare procedures.
• Surgical Errors: During surgery, medical personnel can make two types of mistakes: operating on the incorrect body part and neglecting to remove foreign objects that remain within the patient.
• Medication Errors: A physician faces medical liability when they order an inappropriate pharmaceutical substance, prescribe improper dosage amounts, or fail to detect potentially dangerous drug combinations.
• Birth Injuries: Carelessness throughout labor and delivery events leads to permanent injuries that can affect mothers as well as their babies.
• Failure to Inform: Medical providers fail to advise patients about risks linked to treatment procedures and treatment-related unwanted reactions.

If you’ve experienced any of these issues, GroverLawKC is ready to evaluate your case and help you take the following steps.

Why You Need a Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Civil malpractice suits demand complete legal knowledge in addition to in-depth medical expertise. To successfully pursue a claim, you must prove:

1. Duty of Care: Through the doctor-patient relationship, the provider was responsible for maintaining professional standards of care.
2. Breach of Duty: The medical provider did not fulfill the standard of care standards.
3. Causation: Medical negligence breaches immediately caused destructive medical consequences to the patient’s health.
4. Damages: Medical expenses were taken along with lost wages and emotional distress, which harmed the patient after their medical treatment.

Your case will benefit from Mark Grover’s extensive experience and the courtroom capabilities of the GroverLawKC team, which can collect essential evidence and construct a strong defense for you.

Medical Malpractice in Kansas and Missouri

Each jurisdiction within the Missouri to Kansas area maintains individual regulations to regulate medical malpractice litigation. Knowing these laws is crucial for navigating the legal process:

Kansas:

• Careful examination under the discovery rule gives medical patients more time than two years to start their claims regarding situations requiring extra time to understand their harm fully.
• Under Kansas law, medical malpractice claims are evaluated by screening panels that offer essential information before court proceedings start.
• The law allows medical patients to receive only $250,000 in compensation for their pain and suffering.

Missouri:

• Submitting a healthcare provider’s affidavit of merit for medical malpractice cases becomes mandatory three months after you file the claim.
• Claims for noneconomic loss in wrongful death suits must not exceed the amount of $350,000 under Kansas law. Under Missouri state law, discovery exceptions apply for cases involving minors combined with rules that allow discovery when foreign objects remain inside the body.
• Medical malpractice expertise in both states allows Mark Grover to assist you with every part of your procedure.

Common Types of Medical Malpractice Cases We Handle

At GroverLawKC, we have experience handling a wide range of medical malpractice claims, including:

• Anesthesia Errors: Medical complications occur when healthcare professionals administer incorrect amounts of anesthesia, delay delivery, or neglect to check patients under anesthesia.
• Diagnostic Mistakes: Hospital staff members sometimes fail to properly diagnose critical illnesses such as cancer, strokes, and heart attacks.
• Surgical Mistakes: Medical errors during procedures often cause preventable patient complications and medical injuries.
• Medication Errors: The wrong prescription and inappropriate drug administration lead to patient harm.
• Birth Injuries: Failure to maintain proper care during childbirth operations causes cerebral palsy and brachial plexus injuries.

Every case is unique. Contact our team for a free consultation if you’re unsure whether your situation qualifies as medical malpractice.

How GroverLawKC Can Help You

The team at GroverLawKC dedicates itself to defending medical malpractice victims while you cooperate with them to achieve complete justice. Here’s what we offer:

• Comprehensive Case Evaluation: We examine medical records and use expert consultations to determine if medical negligence happened.
• Clear Communication: Your legal options will be explained while our team maintains complete transparency about your case status.
• Aggressive Advocacy: Our firm handles insurance negotiations and courtroom appearances to ensure you achieve the highest possible compensation.
• Contingency Fee Basis: You don’t pay unless we win. Our payment structure is a percentage of your final settlement amount, meaning you never have to pay anything in advance.

Compensation You May Be Entitled To

Victims of medical malpractice may be eligible for various types of compensation, including:

• Economic Damages: Medical expenses, rehabilitation costs, lost income, and future earning capacity.
• Noneconomic Damages: Pain and suffering, emotional distress, and loss of enjoyment of life.
• Punitive Damages: Rarely awarded, but possible in willful or malicious negligence. cases

Don’t Wait to Seek Justice

All medical malpractice claims have specific time restrictions for filing. Kansas and Missouri provide two years for filing claims, although their laws differ slightly or have special provisions. Once you learn about medical malpractice, you must act quickly to protect your rights and create a solid legal case.