Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Medical Malpractice Lawyers in Louisiana & Mississippi
Diseases and injuries can cause paralysis, but so can a medical provider’s failure to properly diagnose, treat, or monitor a patient. If this happened to you or a loved one, you may have a legal claim for medical malpractice.
The Bowling Law Firm can help you understand whether you have a medical malpractice claim for spinal cord injury, brain injury, or paralysis and what you need to seek justice. Our New Orleans medical malpractice lawyers have handled thousands of malpractice cases in Louisiana and Mississippi.
New Orleans attorney David Bowling and other lawyers at our firm have been recognized for their work with medical malpractice claims, including spinal cord injury, brain injury, paralysis, and other neurological injuries.
We have the resources and experience needed to help you pursue a paralysis medical malpractice claim.
To learn about whether you have a valid claim, you can get an initial attorney consultation with The Bowling Law Firm for free.
There is no obligation, and you won’t pay a fee unless your claim is successful.
What Are Common Types of Spinal Cord Injury, Brain Injury, or Paralysis Medical Malpractice Claims?
Different kinds of injuries to the central nervous system can result from incidents of medical malpractice.
Injuries to the cord and spinal nerves can cause paraplegia, which is the loss of movement and sensation in the lower body, and quadriplegia, which is the loss of movement and sensation in all four limbs.
Other types of paralysis that can stem from medical negligence include monoplegia, the paralysis of a single limb, and hemiplegia, paralysis on one side of the body.
Whichever type of spinal or brain injury you or a loved one has, in a medical malpractice case, you need to demonstrate that you were owed a duty of care by the medical professionals involved. A doctor-patient relationship must have existed.
Then you need to show that your care team breached that duty by not offering you the quality of care that medical professionals would reasonably provide in a similar situation.
Medical malpractice claims for brain or other neurological injuries could result from circumstances like these:
Surgical errors: Wrong-site errors, poor surgical techniques like cutting too deeply, or even positioning a patient the wrong way can cause paralysis during surgery.
Misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis: A medical professional missing signs of a stroke, tumors, or injuries to the spine or brain can misdiagnose a patient or take too long to notice a problem and provide treatment.
A nurse practitioner, emergency medicine physician, or other medical providers may fail to take steps to rule out conditions that can cause devastating neurological injuries, such as pediatric spinal meningitis, signs of cauda equina syndrome, spinal hematoma, and spinal epidural abscess.
Anesthesia errors: Using too much anesthesia, not carefully monitoring a patient’s vitals, or not properly placing an epidural needle or breathing tube can result in brain damage or other injuries along with paralysis.
The Louisiana and Mississippi medical malpractice lawyers at The Bowling Law Firm can represent patients who were wronged in multiple types of neurological injury medical malpractice cases.
Schedule a consultation with our team and learn more about your legal options.
Evidence in a Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Medical Malpractice Case
All medical malpractice claims need to be backed up with evidence. Simply stating that your paralysis is the fault of one or more health care providers isn’t enough.
Your medical records are fundamental to your claim. They can show what happened when you sought treatment, helping establish that there was a doctor-patient relationship and you were owed a duty of care.
Expert opinions are also important to your case. A medical expert can speak with authority about the actions of a surgeon or other medical professional and explain how they deviated from the standard of care.
In paralysis, quadriplegia, and brain injury cases, it can also be useful to have the opinion of a life care planning expert who could talk about your long-term care needs and the kinds of financial challenges you’re likely to face because of your injury.
If you had to modify your home, pay for mobility aids like wheelchairs, or acquire specialized transportation, those costs are relevant to a paralysis case.
Vocational rehabilitation and economic experts can help you document wages and earning capacity you lost.
A Louisiana medical malpractice lawyer from our firm can help you organize your evidence and pursue justice and fair compensation.
Do I Need a Lawyer for My Spinal Cord Injury, Brain Injury, or Paralysis Malpractice Claim in Louisiana or Mississippi?
The Bowling Law Firm does not recommend pursuing any kind of malpractice case without a lawyer.
It is complex and difficult to establish that a medical professional owed you a duty of care, that this duty was breached, and that this breach caused your injury and damages.
A doctor, surgeon, or any other health care provider is likely to argue that they offered the proper care under the circumstances.
They may say that a disease or injury caused the neurological injury, and not their actions or inaction.
A knowledgeable medical malpractice attorney is essential to demonstrate that your nervous system injury wasn’t just an unfortunate outcome beyond anybody’s control.
Your lawyer can also help you meet the unique requirements for filing a claim in each state.
Louisiana requires most potential lawsuits to go in front of a medical review panel, which issues a non-binding expert opinion on whether the provider met the standard of care. A claimant can still file suit after an unfavorable opinion, though the opinion may be used as evidence at trial.
Mississippi requires you to provide a notice of intent to sue a health care professional and a certificate of consultation with a knowledgeable expert prior to filing a medical malpractice suit. A lawyer can help with this and help ensure that your claim meets the state’s standards from the beginning.
Contact us at our office in New Orleans or at our Mississippi office in Gulfport (open by appointment only) if you believe you have a claim for medical malpractice resulting in spinal cord injury, brain injury, or paralysis.
Why Work with The Bowling Law Firm on a Neurological Injury Claim?
The medical malpractice attorneys of The Bowling Law Firm have been helping people across Louisiana and Mississippi with medical malpractice claims for more than 40 years.
We know the challenges of pursuing justice when a doctor, nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or any other health care professional may have violated the duty of care.
To build a brain injury, spinal cord injury, or paralysis medical malpractice claim, work with a law firm with experience and recognition in the legal profession, like The Bowling Law Firm.
We also have experience with personal injury cases that could involve paralysis, like motor vehicle accidents and construction injuries.
No matter how your neurological injury occurred, we are ready to help you seek justice.
Speaking to a medical malpractice lawyer from The Bowling Law Firm won’t cost you anything up front. You won’t pay an attorney fee unless you make a recovery.
Why Choose The Bowling Law Firm After Suffering Emergency Room Negligence
Handling emergency department and emergency room cases is a significant part of The Bowling Law Firm’s medical malpractice practice.
Other attorneys frequently ask the firm’s lawyers to assist with these cases. Bowling Law Firm attorneys regularly present educational seminars for attorneys on emergency room malpractice and the examination of medical expert witnesses.
Emergency room negligence can cause serious, lasting harm. The Bowling Law Firm pursues justice on behalf of clients harmed by emergency departments. We work to hold negligent providers accountable.
You only pay legal costs or fees if you make a recovery.
