Morris County Medical Malpractice Attorneys
The information required to bring a medical malpractice lawsuit is extensive. Your Morris County malpractice attorney will need your complete medical records to determine whether you are a medical malpractice victim. We also need to identify responsible parties and determine whether your case is strong enough to file suit.
Medical malpractice cases are not easy to win, but our firm has many years of experience and numerous successes representing claims in this legal area. If you have been hospitalized, have undergone an operation, or seen various medical doctors, usually a huge stack of medical records awaits our evaluation.
Access to your own medical records is legal-we'll tell you how
Under
New Jersey state law, you have the right to obtain any or all of your medical records. Types of medical professionals who need to be contacted for records often include:
- Hospital administration
- Attending physicians
- Radiologists
- Image scanning experts (MRI, PET, CT scans, etc.)
- Anesthesiologists
- Private nurses
- Social workers
- Therapists
- Pharmacists
- Surgeons
- Medical specialists
Establishing your medical malpractice case through heavy documentation
Along with medical experts, our legal professionals review many different types of medical records to discover failures to meet reasonable standards of care. Our
Morris County malpractice lawyers must also be able to make a direct correlation between your injury and the medical failure.
The types of reports may include:
- General M.D. medical records
- X-ray and MRI films
- CAT, PET, EEG, EKG scans
- Fetal monitor records
- Lab tests
- Prescription records
- Diagnostic evaluations
- Hospital admission records
- Administrative in-patient records
- Administrative out-patient records
- Treatment records
- Anesthesiologist reports
- Pathology records
- Pre- and post-surgery reports
- Therapy reports
- Nurses notations
- Dietician's records
- Social Worker's reports
- Emergency room records
- Billing statements
- Prescription receipts
- Office staff notes or log
- Prescriptions
- Communications from your healthcare insurance carrier
- Health care insurance premiums and coverage records
Getting to the bottom of a medical situation requires skill
It can take the considerable knowledge and applied skills of our Morris County medical malpractice lawyers to discover liable sources, which ranges widely. In some cases, medical administrations fail, based simply on staff shortages and overworked professionals.
Contact the Morris County malpractice attorneys at Maskaleris & Associates
Arrange a consultation to discuss your malpractice case. Our firm offers confidential consultations at no obligation. Call
1-888-635-1397 or
contact us online today to connect with a
medical malpractice attorney in Morris County today.