Nearly $5 million was awarded to a Hammond, Indiana family in a medical malpractice case earlier this year. Roger Vuckovich, just twelve hours after being released from St. Catherine’s hospital in East Chicago, died of an adbdominal aortic aneurysm.
The abdominal aorta supplies blood to the abdomen, pelvis, and legs. Dr. Rajeev Sareen completed an emergency procedure on Mr. Vuckovich on December 22, 2001 and in the opinion of a jury in December of 2005, Dr. Sareen failed to complete a CT scan that could have shown the risk of Mr. Vuckovich’s aneurism. According to Barry Rooth, the Vuckovich’s attorney, Mr. Vuckovich was misdiagnosed and treated for having a kidney stone.
Vuckovich’s wife, Cynthia, received $2.2 million in the settlement and his three daughters each received $750,000. Rooth stated that he felt “heartened that the jury understood that the care required a CT under these circumstances.”
Personal injury attorneys work for clients who have been injured, especially cases in which there is another person at fault for the injury. Personal injury attorneys assist their clients with injury documentation, representation in court or other legal proceedings, and seeking compensation for pain and suffering.
Personal injury attorneys are also known as:
injury lawyers
injury attorneys
personal injury solicitors
personal injury lawyers
If you are injured and believe someone else might be at fault, it is important to contact a personal injury attorney immediately. Your case will be stronger if the attorney can document your injury, and your attorney will make sure to file a claim in the time allowed by your state or area. Personal injuries can result in major medical expenses. Having health insurance is important, and knowing your rights is sometimes more important. When someone else is at fault for your injury, your medical expenses may not be your responsibility. Your responsibility when you are injured includes:
receiving immediate medical treatment
keeping up-to-date and accurate records of
when the injury occurred
how it occurred
the resulting injuries
the medical treatment you received
the costs involved
your healing process
Taking this information to a personal injury attorney can help you determine if someone else is responsible for your medical bills. Personal injury attorneys assist clients with every step of the personal injury legal process. This includes:
seeking appropriate medical evaluations and treatments
documenting the injury and the circumstances under which it occurred
filing a personal injury claim
filling out all necessary paperwork
interpreting all applicable laws
communicating with all other parties involved in the claim
representing the client during court and other legal proceedings
seeking compensation for pain, suffering, lost wages, future lost wages, future medical expenses, and any other expenses related to the injury
Personal injury attorneys often specialize in a few select areas. Some specialize in medical malpractice, others in car accidents, offshore injuries and certain types of cancer. Many advertise what type of law they specialize in, and law firms might have several different specialties that they handle.
Most personal injury attorneys will take your case without requiring payment until a judgment is received or a settlement is reached. Contact a few attorneys to decide who is right for you. Finding a local firm might be important if you want to meet your attorney in person, and to help cut down travel costs for court cases and hearings. Tell them about your case, and if they are interested, here are a few questions you can ask:
What is your specialty?
What kind of experience do you have with injuries like mine?
How many cases have you handled?
What was the outcome?
How do you handle payment?
What is the percentage you require from the settlement or judgment?
It is important to differentiate between an accident and an injury. An accident means no one is at fault, or you were injured purely because of your own actions and decisions. An injury, especially a “personal injury” in legal terms, was acquired because of someone else’s negligent or inappropriate actions.
Accident attorneys represent people who have sustained a personal injury. They are also called:
injury lawyers
injury attorneys
personal injury solicitors
personal injury lawyers
Accident and personal injury attorneys assist their clients with injury documentation, representation in court or other legal proceedings, and seeking compensation for pain and suffering.
If you are injured and believe someone else might be at fault, it is important to contact a personal injury attorney immediately. Your case will be stronger if your accident attorney can document your injury, and your attorney will make sure to file a claim in the time allowed by your state or area. Personal injuries can result in major medical expenses. Having health insurance is important, and knowing your rights is sometimes more important. When someone else is at fault for your injury, your medical expenses may not be your responsibility. Your responsibility when you are injured includes:
receiving immediate medical treatment
keeping up-to-date and accurate records of
when the injury occurred
how it occurred
the resulting injuries
the medical treatment you received
the costs involved
your healing process
Taking this information to an accident attorney can help you determine if someone else is responsible for your medical bills. Accident attorneys assist clients with every step of the personal injury legal process. This includes:
seeking appropriate medical evaluations and treatments
documenting the injury and the circumstances under which it occurred
filing a personal injury claim
filling out all necessary paperwork
interpreting all applicable laws
communicating with all other parties involved in the claim
representing the client during court and other legal proceedings
seeking compensation for pain, suffering, lost wages, future lost wages, future medical expenses, and any other expenses related to the injury
Accident attorneys often specialize in a few select areas. Some specialize in medical malpractice, others in car accidents, offshore injuries and certain types of cancer. Many advertise what type of law they specialize in, and law firms might have several different specialties that they handle.
Most accident attorneys will take your case without requiring payment until a judgment is received or a settlement is reached. Contact a few attorneys to decide who is right for you. Finding a local firm might be important if you want to meet your attorney in person, and to help cut down travel costs for court cases and hearings. Tell them about your case, and if they are interested, here are a few questions you can ask:
What is your specialty?
What kind of experience do you have with injuries like mine?
How many cases have you handled?
What was the outcome?
How do you handle payment?
What is the percentage you require from the settlement or judgment?
Personal injuries occur during accidents, traumas, medical malpractice and workplace incidents, and they result in major medical expenses.
Having health insurance is important, but knowing your rights is sometimes more important. When someone else is at fault for your injury, your medical expenses may not be your responsibility. Receiving immediate medical treatment, keeping up-to-date and accurate records of when the injury occurred, how it occurred, and the resulting injuries, is very important.
While a personal injury attorney can help you determine if someone else is responsible for your medical bills, your responsibility when you are injured includes:
Receiving immediate medical treatment
Keeping up-to-date and accurate records of:
When the injury occurred
How it occurred
The resulting injuries
The medical treatment you received
The costs involved
Your healing process
Your most important responsibility after taking care of yourself is to take this information to a personal injury attorney who can help you determine if someone else is responsible for your medical bills. A qualified, winning attorney will thoroughly evaluate your case, and at no risk or obligation to you.
You will never regret making this positive, life-changing decision.
Personal Injury Law is the defense of victims suffering physical or mental pain due to the negligence of a company or individual.
Personal Injury Law is a unique form of law. Successful personal injury lawyers are often very aggressive, highly experienced and actively seek the long-term well being of their clients.
Your Future Is On the Line.
Personal Injury Lawyers hold in their hands the future well being of their clients. In many cases, success or failure of a case determines the financial, emotional and physical well being of their clients, and therefore personal injury attorneys do everything in their power to succeed for you. If you have been injured or are experiencing physical or mental pain due to the negligence of someone else, a personal injury attorney can help you obtain the resources you need to ease your suffering.
Seek Advice Now; Don’t Wait. You Will Never Regret Getting Free Information.
Many people make the mistake of believing minor pain caused by an accident will go away on its own. However, studies show that major injuries can begin with symptoms as minor as a headache, and some people experience no symptoms at all. Unfortunately, once people realize the minor pain is not going away but is in fact getting worse, it’s often too late to file a claim and seek compensation. Medical bills increase, and many do not have the means to pay for all the expenses. Contacting a personal injury attorney immediately after an accident is free, convenient and one of the smartest things you can do.
You will never regret getting accurate information that might change your life or the life of the one you love.
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