The doctors and nurses you trust to care for you can make mistakes that endanger your health and even cause life-changing injuries. Surgical errors, birth injuries, and misdiagnoses can all lead to malpractice lawsuits. Those suits can be difficult to win. Doctors bury their mistakes, hospitals cover up for them, and insurance companies fight you to avoid paying fair settlements. But a San Jose medical malpractice lawyer can help you take them on.

A medical negligence case involves a complex mix of hard numbers and subjective factors that lawyers and insurance companies argue over for months or years. The most important are the economic damages, which include all medical expenses and lost wages associated with your injury. Future costs matter, too, if you need ongoing treatment or will have to live with a permanent disability.

San Jose Medical Malpractice Lawyer: Protecting Your Rights

Pain and suffering is harder to quantify, but a skilled attorney can get around California’s cap on non-economic damages (currently $350,000) by building your case on the foundation of lifetime medical care. We work with families in cases involving a variety of medical malpractice issues, including anesthesia malpractice, birth injuries, cancer misdiagnosis, and defective medical devices. We also help clients through Kaiser Permanente’s arbitration system.

We have won significant compensation for victims of various types of malpractice, including anesthesia mistakes, hospital errors, cancer misdiagnosis, and obstetrics malpractice. Our results speak for themselves, but more importantly, our clients testify about the quality of our work by describing how we have helped them rebuild their lives.