Toledo Medical Malpractice Attorneys

Medical malpractice can happen to you.   It can be caused by the negligence of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, hospitals, and nursing homes. This negligence can result in severe injuries or even death.   So what is your recourse?   How can you get your financial and emotional resources met after a tragedy from medical malpractice?

The Ohio and Michigan medical malpractice lawyers at Gallon, Takacs, Boissoneault & Schaffer aggressively and successfully handle medical negligence cases. We have relationships with strong medical experts required to analyze and prosecute complex medical malpractice claims.

According to published reports, an average of 195,000 people in the United States die every year from preventable errors in hospitals alone, while 1.5 million people are harmed by prescription errors (7,000 die from these errors annually).   If you or a family member is a victim of medical malpractice, contact us!

Know your rights and protect your family. Contact us or call Gallon, Takacs, Boissoneault & Schaffer now for a free consultation with a Michigan and Ohio Medical Malpractice Lawyer at one of our convenience locations.

Medical Malpractice Sample Cases

Examples of the types of medical malpractice cases our lawyers have successfully handled in Toledo, Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan include:

Cardiology – error in prescribing medication that resulted in the patient’s death.

Radiology – failure to properly detect and report a suspicious spot in the lung, resulting in delayed diagnosis of lung cancer and ultimately the patient’s death.

Anesthesia – failure to take appropriate pre-operative precautions resulting in the patient aspirating gastric content and suffering brain damage.

Hematology – failure of a hematologist to recognize and properly treat a patient who had been given an overdose of Heparin, a blood thinner, in a hospital who then bled to death in her hospital bed.

Nursing – failure to properly triage a patient’s phone call for assistance, resulting in the patient’s death.

Defective medical device – implanted medical device broke inside a patient’s body leading to numerous, very serious, life-altering complications.

Plastic surgery – negligent use of a medical laser resulting in a permanent, disfiguring scar.

Hospital administration – hospital policies were inadequate to notify a recent emergency room patient of a markedly abnormal test result once the patient had been discharged, resulting in the patient suffering a serious bout of pancreatitis, development of ARDS (a serious lung condition), three weeks in a coma, and an extended recuperation period.