When Medication Mistakes Cause Death or Serious Injury
Modern prescription medicine is a powerful medical tool when properly prescribed and administered, but there can cause serious or fatal physical harm to patients when doctors and nurses fail to properly prescribe them.
At the Fairfield County law firm of Tooher Wocl & Leydon, LLC, our attorneys represent clients in a wide range of medical malpractice cases. Our attorneys are recognized throughout Connecticut for their skill with the investigation and proof of personal injury and wrongful death claims resulting from medical negligence.
Our extensive experience with anesthesia and medication-related injury claims in particular enables us to evaluate the facts and determine whether there is a viable claim for compensation under Connecticut law. Contact us in Stamford or Bridgeport to learn more about our practice and how we can help you obtain full compensation for your losses.
Stamford Medication Error Lawyers ∙ Bridgeport Anesthesia Error Attorneys
Our law firm works with medical, nursing, toxicological and pharmacological experts to develop our clients' claims and describe the full extent of the damages our clients have suffered as a result of:
- Anesthesia errors resulting in death, coma, heart attack, stroke, brain damage, blindness or other serious injuries to surgical patients. These adverse results happen for reasons that include failing to properly administer an anesthetic, administering the wrong dosage, using the wrong type of anesthetic, and failing to carefully monitor the patient during and immediately after the surgery in the PACU (post anesthesia care unit)
- Medication errors committed by health care facilities, hospital staff, nursing homes, and pharmacies. Medication errors are responsible for thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands "adverse drug events" each year. These outcomes can occur when the wrong drug or the wrong dosage of a drug is prescribed, when prescriptions are misread, or when patient medical histories go unread
In a civil action for negligence involving an anesthesiologist's error prior to C-section delivery which resulted in the coma and death of the mother, our attorneys recovered an award of $2.5 million for malpractice damages.
Establishing a claim for negligence damages against a medical or pharmacological professional depends on close collaboration between your lawyers and a team of consulting experts from the same professional specialties as those involved in your potential claims. Your claim for medical malpractice damages will be provable in court if our experts find that your loss was caused by a medical error on the part of your doctor, nurse or pharmacist that also represented a violation of an applicable standard of care.
Once we have established your basic right to maintain a malpractice action, our lawyers then develop and present the evidence necessary to prove it to the satisfaction of the defense attorney and doctor's insurers, or when necessary to a trial jury. Tooher Wocl & Leydon, LLC, has a demonstrated record of success with medical negligence claims throughout the state, including those related to negligence by prescribing physicians, anesthesiologists and nurses administering medications.
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If you believe that medication or anesthesia errors played a role in causing the death or serious injury of someone in your family, contact an experienced Connecticut medical malpractice attorney at Tooher Wocl & Leydon, LLC, in Stamford or Bridgeport.
We represent clients statewide and handle all of our medical malpractice cases on a contingency basis. There are no legal fees to pay unless we win.
