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A Medical Malpractice Lawyer Can Recover The Compensation You Need

Medical malpractice often results in devastating consequences: prolonged illness, injury or wrongful death. The toll it takes on the injury victim and their family is indescribable. Your trust and faith in health care providers may be permanently tainted. Your expenses and losses will likely be exorbitant.

What can you do after a doctor fails you? Turn to an experienced medical malpractice lawyer. Attorney Laura Kalur has more than 20 years of experience handling medical malpractice claims. In addition to her legal knowledge, she has considerable medical knowledge. She also has the trial experience necessary to pursue these cases. Insurance companies spare no expense to defend cases, even when indefensible; attorney Kalur believes that plaintiffs should get the same advantage so she fronts the costs of pursuing the case. Opposing lawyers know that she will go to trial when that is in her clients’ best interests, so they are often more willing to offer a favorable settlement.

Experienced In Many Areas Of Medical Malpractice

There are numerous types of medical malpractice, including:

  • Failure to provide timely, adequate care and treatment
  • Surgical errors
  • Birth injuries and OB/GYN malpractice
  • Orthopedic malpractice
  • Cancer misdiagnosis
  • Medication errors
  • Defective medical devices
  • Brain injuries
  • Kidney injuries and misdiagnosis

Any of these situations can result in severe injuries or wrongful death, which causes enormous expense and trauma for the malpractice victim and their family.

What Constitutes Medical Malpractice In Oregon?

For you to have a valid medical malpractice case in Oregon, your attorney must prove the following:

  • There was a professional duty owed to you by the health care provider.
  • The duty was breached.
  • The breach led to an injury.
  • The injury caused serious harm or wrongful death.

This type of medical negligence must be proven before you can recover damages from the provider and/or health care corporation.

How Do You Know If You Have A Medical Malpractice Case?

There are things to look for in a possible malpractice case, such as the following:

  • Your diagnosis did not align with your symptoms.
  • The treatment is not helping you improve.
  • The treatment or lack of proper treatment resulted in injury or prolonged your illness.
  • Your doctor did not run the normal tests for your condition.
  • Another doctor has a different diagnosis.

These are just a few signs that you may have a medical malpractice claim. When you speak with attorney Kalur, she will explain how these cases are investigated and resolved.

Medical Malpractice Is Also About Holding Health Care Providers Accountable

When doctors, nurses, technicians or corporations do not practice within the reasonable standard of care for their profession, it can result in terrible consequences for the injured patients. In addition to recovering compensation for the victims, these cases can hold providers liable for the damage they caused.

It Is Best To Contact A Medical Malpractice Attorney Right Away

These cases are complex and can take time to settle or go to trial, so do not delay contacting a lawyer as soon as possible. In Oregon, you generally have two years from the discovery of the injury or when it should have reasonably been discovered to file a malpractice claim. However, there are multiple exceptions depending on the age of the plaintiff (children), public vs. private hospitals, and different states can have different time limits from Oregon.

Call Kalur Law in Portland at 503-568-1847 today or send an email to set up your free consultation.