Your Maine Failure To Treat Lawyers

Understanding the Impact of Medical Negligence on Patient Outcomes

Modern medicine offers hope for people with serious illnesses or injuries. With proper and timely treatment, doctors can fix many of the problems that ail us, allowing us to get better and return to our lives.

But all of the scientific and medical advancements in the world won’t help you if a doctor or other medical professional doesn’t take the steps needed to treat your condition. A physician’s failure to follow the appropriate standard of care in treating an illness or injury can allow a bad condition to become even worse, leading to lifelong disability or death. If you do go on to get the care you should have initially received, the avoidable delay can make your recovery much more difficult, painful, and expensive than it should have been or even worse, leave you permanently compromised or disabled.

Seeking Justice for Medical Malpractice: The Consequences of Failure to Treat

Failure to treat is one of the most common forms of medical malpractice, inflicting unnecessary pain and hardship on thousands of patients and their families every year. If you are one of those patients, or if someone you love passed away because of a doctor’s negligent failure to treat an illness or health condition, you deserve compensation for the needless losses you’ve incurred.

Negligence that results in the “failure to treat” can come in many forms

When doctors, radiologists, oncologists, or other healthcare professionals fail to follow the proper standard of care when diagnosing a patient and the patient suffers harm as a result, their negligence can be the basis for a medical malpractice claim for compensation. In fact, one study concluded that missed or incorrect diagnoses are the most common basis for medical malpractice claims.

• Failure To Diagnose Cancer
• Failure To Diagnose Heart Disease
• Failure to Diagnose Plaquenil Toxicity
• Failure To Diagnose Other Conditions

It can be difficult to know whether your healthcare provider should have diagnosed and initiated treatment for your condition earlier, whether they breached their duty of care, and whether that breach contributed to your suffering. The lawyers at Berman & Simmons, widely respected as the best medical malpractice and personal injury attorneys in Maine, can get you the answers to those questions, and will work tirelessly to obtain the full compensation you deserve for losses caused by a failure to diagnose.

Our record of success in medical malpractice cases is second to none. With attorneys who combine their legal talent with extensive medical knowledge and resources that give us access to the world’s leading and most highly credentialed medical experts, Berman & Simmons has received over $1.45 billion for our clients, including several of the largest medical malpractice jury verdicts and settlements ever obtained in Maine.

Unmatched resources and experience in medical malpractice cases

Berman & Simmons’ lawyers are widely acknowledged as the best personal injury lawyers in Maine. But for us, that it is not enough. With our unique resources and talent, we strive to be among the very best in the country.

We have obtained several of the largest medical malpractice jury verdicts and settlements in Maine, recovering over $1.45 billion in compensation for victims and their families. This record of success is a testament to the talents of our attorneys and the commitment of our firm to providing excellence in medical malpractice representation.

No other medical malpractice firm in Maine can match the depth of our experience and the breadth of resources we use to bring these complex cases to successful conclusions. We pride ourselves on taking on―and winning― cases that other firms turn down.

Call us for your free medical malpractice consultation

Maine has strict statutes of limitations for filing medical malpractice complaints, so it’s critical to consult with us as soon as possible if you think your physician failed to treat you properly. Our initial consultations are free, so even if another firm has told you that you don’t have a valid claim, there is no reason not to call us for a second opinion.

Please contact Berman & Simmons today at (207) 417-4199 to arrange for your free consultation. You pay nothing unless we obtain compensation for you by settlement or jury verdict.

Get Peace of Mind

It never hurts to consult an attorney regardless of whether you decide to move forward.

It never hurts to consult an attorney regardless of whether you decide to move forward.

• You may need to discuss whether an autopsy is necessary to prove that the negligence caused a love one’s death.
• Maine’s statute of limitations for medical malpractice cases is short in comparison to the statute of limitations for general personal injury claims.
• You’ll need help navigating your medical care and dealing with financial pressures.
• Obtaining complete medical records from hospitals and other providers is a daunting task.
• Important evidence may be lost or degraded over time.
• You need peace of mind to focus on your recovery.