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What is pharmaceutical malpractice or
pharmaceutical negligence?
When should I suspect that my injuries were
caused by hormone replacement therapy drugs?
How can I find out if I have a case?
How
would it benefit me to hire attorneys who are also doctors or
nurses?
What will it cost me to hire a lawyer?
What factors are important in choosing a lawyer?
Is there a time limit on bringing a malpractice
claim?
Will my case settle?
What is pharmaceutical malpractice or
pharmaceutical negligence?
Although the legal definition may vary
slightly from state to state, as a general rule pharmaceutical
malpractice (also known as pharmaceutical negligence) means that
a drug company caused injury or death to a consumer by failing
to act within the applicable standard of care.
In other words, a drug company commits malpractice and is
negligent when it fails to act reasonably under the
circumstances and the unreasonable conduct causes harm. This
could be because the drug was not designed or tested properly.
It could also be because the company did not provide effective
and appropriate warnings to the doctors who prescribed the drug,
and to the consumers who took them.
When should I suspect that my injuries
were caused by hormone replacement
therapy drugs?
Not all people who are
injured from a hormone therapy drug may have a claim, but if you
or a loved one has suffered serious injury or death, you should
question whether the drug company acted responsibly. You owe it
to yourself and your family to know the truth and to hold the
drug company responsible for the harm it caused caused. Millions
of dollars may be at stake.
If you suspect drug company wrongdoing,
contact us
now - toll free and with no obligation. Our staff, including
physician attorneys and nurse attorneys, are here to help.
How can I find out if I have a case?
The best way to tell if you have a case is to hire an
experienced medical malpractice and pharmaceutical liability
law firm to examine the medical care you received.
(Click
here to read about some of our verdicts and settlements.)
At the Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC
that analysis begins with a simple telephone interview with one
of our experienced malpractice attorneys.
(Click
here to read how you can benefit from having M.D./J.D.’s
working for you.) With this call we want to learn what you
already know about your medical care and injuries.
Unless one of our physician/attorneys (“M.D./J.D.’s”) determines
from this initial interview that we are unable to assist you,
the next step is for you (or the injured person) to hire our
firm on a no risk/contingency fee basis. This means that if
we do not win money for you, you owe us nothing-- no fees, no
expenses.
After you have hired the Medlaw Legal Team, our medical records
department (which includes a registered nurse paralegal) will
immediately go to work for you obtaining the relevant medical
records for examination and evaluation by our
physician/attorneys. Then, if our M.D./J.D.’s conclude you have
a viable medical negligence claim, we locate experienced and
well credentialed medical experts in the appropriate fields of
medicine to review the medical records, with the assistance and
guidance of our M.D./J.D’s and/or our registered nurse/attorney.
Once these experts complete their analysis and report whether
they hold the opinion that the health care providers breached
the applicable standard of care (meaning they were negligent)
and caused your injuries, we confer with you, the client, with a
recommendation on how next to proceed.
Put the
Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs,
LLC
to work for you.
How would it benefit me to hire attorneys
who are also doctors or nurses?
Click
here for the answer to this question.
What will it cost me to hire a lawyer?
NOTHING. The Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC
operates on a contingency fee basis. This means that our fee
is based on a percentage of the recovery we win for you.
Moreover, representation of clients outside of Maryland, the
District of Columbia and Pennsylvania is undertaken in
association with local counsel (and if suit is filed, with
permission of the applicable court) at no additional legal fees
to the client. Therefore, unless we are successful for you, you
owe us nothing.
Moreover, we have such confidence in our team of experienced
malpractice attorneys and “M.D/J.D’s” that we advance the
expenses necessary to pursue a medical negligence case at no
risk to you. This is very important for most of our clients.
For example, to assemble and pursue a strong birth injury case
for you, with nationally renowned experts in the fields of
obstetrics, neonatology, pediatric neurology, pediatric
neuroradiology, pediatrics, placental pathology, obstetrical
nursing, vocational rehabilitation, life care planning, and
economics, can cost in excess of $100,000. We know that the
parents of a brain damaged child cannot afford to finance such
litigation. Therefore, we advance the costs and you are not
responsible for reimbursing us unless we win for you.
What factors are important in choosing a
lawyer?
Five factors are of prime importance in selecting an attorney:
A) Experience; B) Results; C) Reputation; D) Resources; and E)
Commitment.
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A. Experience: In a serious medical malpractice case
too much is at stake to trust your future (or the future of
a loved one) to inexperienced counsel.
The Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC
has over 100 years of combined legal experience in
representing people who have been injured by medical
negligence. The experience we bring to aggressively pursuing
medical malpractice claims includes formal medical training.
When you hire the Medlaw Legal Team you have physician and
registered nurse attorneys fighting for you. You are able to
tap into their reservoir of medical training and knowledge
to quickly analyze your potential malpractice claim. In
fact, the Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC
has uncovered viable malpractice claims that other attorneys
have missed.
Experience also counts once the negligent doctor or nurse
hires “experts” to defend their care. These defense
“experts” have been known to try to confuse inexperienced
and untrained counsel (and the jury) with medical terms and
erroneous statements concerning what is acceptable medical
practice and sound medical science. That is when you want
lawyers who are trained doctors or nurses fighting for you—
advocates who understand medicine and can cut through the
smoke and reveal the truth to the jury.
Finally, experience counts when the battle crosses over from
medical issues to legal issues. You want attorneys who are
experienced in performing thorough legal reasearch and
producing compelling legal briefs. Through its research and
advocacy, the Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC
has worked to create new law expanding the rights of the
injured, such as: Establishing the right of brain
damaged children to receive compensation for future life
care expenses when their parents’ claim for those expenses
is barred; Enabling malpractice victims to hold negligent
physician-employees of the District of Columbia accountable
even when their employer is immune from being sued; and,
Declaring that physician fraud in concealing the cause of
death will extend the deadline for filing a wrongful death
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B. Results: Even though the value of a case is dependent
upon the facts of the particular matter, and thus, past
successes do not necessarily indicate what future results
will be, when you look to hire a medical malpractice and
pharmaceutical liability law firm you should consider
whether the firm has a proven record of success in handling
serious medical malpractice actions.
The Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC
has obtained record setting verdicts and settlements
that have been reported in USA Today, Dateline NBC, the
Washington Post, by television affiliates of ABC, CBS and
NBC, and in other national media.
(Click
here to read about some of our verdicts and
settlements.) |
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C. Reputation: In selecting the lawyers who will be your
representatives, you want aggressive advocates with a
reputation for high professional standards, high ethics and
success.
The Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC
is recognized among the most distinguished law firms in the
United States in the Martindale-Hubbell®
Bar Register of Pre-eminent Lawyers™ and has received the
highest rating for ethical conduct and professional
excellence offered by Martindale-Hubbell®
(“AV”). This rating is based upon responses to surveys
conducted of attorneys and judges.
You can read about the firm’s success in representing the
seriously injured by
clicking here. |
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D. Resources: Pursuing a single medical malpractice
claims can cost over One Hundred Thousand Dollars
($100,000.00). Therefore, you want lawyers working for you
who are willing and able to invest the money and effort
necessary to hire nationally renowned experts, to take the
required discovery, and to put you into the best position
for success.
If you have suffered a serious injury from medical
malpractice, the Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC
has the resources to pursue your case aggressively and
thoroughly. |
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E. Commitment: You want a law firm with a passion for
seeking justice on behalf of people who have been injured by
the carelessness of others.
The
Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC has
this commitment and is dedicated to battling for the
injured. Put the Medlaw Legal Team to work for you. |
Is there a time limit on bringing a
malpractice claim?
YES. Each state (and the United States for health care provided
by the federal government or its agencies) has its own statute
of limitations establishing a deadline to pursue a malpractice
claim. These limits vary greatly from state to state, and often
are affected by whether the injured party is an adult or a
minor, or whether the negligence was caused by a private health
care provider or a public entity (for example, a city, state or
federal hospital or clinic or its employees).
Therefore, if you suspect medical negligence do not wait to
consult experienced medical malpractice counsel-- The clock is
ticking.
Will my case settle?
Most medical negligence cases handled by the Medlaw Legal Team
of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC
settle prior to trial; however, your goal should not be mere
settlement. Your goal should be to obtain that sum of money
which fully and fairly compensates you for your injuries. To
meet that goal requires aggressive representation. From the
beginning, your attorneys must investigate and pursue your claim
with an eye toward presenting the strongest possible case before
a jury. Only when the negligent doctor and hospital know that
your attorneys are able to win a major verdict against them will
you be able to obtain, through settlement, the compensation you
deserve.
The Medlaw Legal Team of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC
provides that type of aggressive representation — we work to
maximize our clients’ potential for a full and fair settlement
because we prepare each case from the outset as if it were going
to trial. Thus, if negotiations fail, our attorneys are
poised and ready to present a strong and substantial case to the
jury on behalf of our clients.
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