Decades of Experience in Emergency Room Medical Malpractice Cases
At Polewski & Associates, many of the cases we’ve handled involve medical malpractice by doctors or nurses in an emergency room.
A partial list of the emergency room medical malpractice cases we have handled:
- Discharge of patient with cauda equina syndrome (an emergency injury to the spinal nerves)results in delayed treatment and permanent paralysis (multiple cases)
- Failure to diagnose a heart attack leads to death of patient (multiple different cases)
- Failure to diagnose appendicitis leads to death of patient from burst appendix
- Failure to treat a child with meningitis results in severe brain damage to child (multiple cases)
- Misdiagnosis of heart failure as "indigestion" results in death of patient
- Medication error causes death of child
- Failure to admit or transfer patient with colloid cyst in his brain results in death of patient
- Failure to treat or transfer a patient with sepsis results in death of the patient
- Failure to diagnose abdominal aneurysm (an emergency blood vessel condition) results in patient's death
- Release of patient with serious internal injuries results in death of patient
- Failure to properly evaluate patient results in missed heart infection and the patient's death
- Discharge of patient with brain tumor results in patient's death
- Failure to admit or transfer patient with ruptured duodenal ulcer results in patient bleeding to death
- Failure to diagnose compartment syndrome lead to loss of patient's leg (multiple cases)
- Failure to diagnose appendicitis results in burst appendix and near death of patient (multiple cases)
- Doctor thinks patient is "faking" symptoms and allows patient to become paralyzed without care (multiple cases)
- Doctor delays obtaining care for patient with spinal injury, leading to permanent paralysis
- Nurse in ER gives patient overdose of morphine, causing patient's death
- Doctors and nurses fail to recognize that patient is dying of infection and send him home without treatment (multiple cases)
- Doctors and nurses fail to treat bowel obstruction, resulting in death of patient
- Doctor gives overdose of Dilaudid, causing respiratory arrest and coma
- Doctors and nurses give overdose of morphine
- Doctors and nurses miss symptoms of bowel obstruction and patient dies
- Doctors and nurses fail to recognize necrotizing fasciitis and patient dies
- Emergency room doctors diagnose dangerous brain swelling--but fail to get patient treatment, patient dies
We’ve seen clients who lost a child or a father because of delays in treatment, patients hurt and killed by administration of the wrong drug, and people who died because doctors and nurses thought they were "fakers". We've seen cases about fathers having a heart attack who were diagnosed with "indigestion". Some of our clients ended up paralyzed because their symptoms were ignored. Some of our clients lost a loved one because because emergency room doctors didn't listen when the patient told them what was going on.
If your case is about negligence in an emergency room, it is very likely we're handling a case like it right now.
Experience Matters
In order to win an emergency medical malpractice trial or settlement, you need:
- A legal team who can obtain and understand the medical records---including when the records are incomplete, or altered. It is common for hospitals and doctors to give patients less than the whole record. Your lawyer better be able to know what's missing.
- A legal team who knows the difference between normal and abnormal test and laboratory results, and competent or negligent conduct. Your lawyer needs to know what doctors and nurses should be doing when he reads the medical records. If he doesn't, he won't know if you have a case or not.
- A legal team with access to the best emergency medical experts who can help present and analyze your case. At the Polewski Firm, our consultants are some of the best doctors in the country.
- Lawyers who are experienced and skilled at the presentation of medical evidence and expert testimony to a jury or to a mediator.
In Arkansas, there are very, very few law firms who can do all of these things. The Polewski Firm is one of them, and we can prove it: see about us and our client reviews.
When you sue an Arkansas doctor or hospital, the one thing you can be sure of is that the people you sue will have the best medical malpractice defense lawyers money can buy. These cases are no place for rookies, divorce lawyers, car wreck lawyers or your friend from church. You don't want a local lawyer who plays golf with the doctor you need to sue, or whose wife is in the country club with the doctor's wife.
Making Things Better
Emergency doctors and nurses-- and the hospitals who employ them--all have malpractice insurance to compensate patients hurt by medical malpractice, just as drivers have insurance to compensate people injured by driving mistakes. It is only fair that the people who hurt your family use their insurance to make things right.
Your emergency room malpractice case is also about protecting other people in your community. When our clients stand up and say "this can't happen again", they may save a life that otherwise would be lost. When people don't insist on change for the better, nothing gets better.
We're proud to have represented so many clients who insisted on justice and safety.
We'd be proud to represent you, too.
Contact Us Today
If you or your family have suffered due to emergency medical malpractice, we can help. Call Polewski & Associates today at 501-404-0062.
Please don't wait. Arkansas law has very strict deadlines that may prevent you from bringing even the most righteous case if you are even one day late. Delay can mean evidence is lost, or a witness forgets crucial information. There is no reason to wait: the consultation with us is always free. If we take your case, you never pay a dime unless we get a recovery for you--and then we're paid out of the settlement.
You don't have to worry about having to come up with money to pay for your case--ever.
