Medical Malpractice/Pharmaceutical Litigation

Personal Injury
Litigation

Medical Malpractice / Pharmaceutical Litigation

Personal Injury
Litigation

Medical Malpractice /
Pharmaceutical Litigation

If a patient is harmed by negligent medical care, treatment, or surgery, there may have been medical malpractice. Medical malpractice cases—including doctor malpractice, surgical malpractice, and hospital malpractice—cover a wide range of conditions and situations. Patients can also suffer harmful side effects (including death) from using certain drugs. In some instances, the manufacturer is required to recall the drugs due to defects injuring numerous patients. Patients (and their families) can sue the pharmaceutical companies when such harmful side effects occur.

Trief & Olk has earned a reputation for success in complex litigation and may be able to help you recover damages resulting from medical malpractice or pharmaceutical side effects.

Our firm is experienced in complex medical malpractice cases. We handle a wide variety of cases, with special expertise in these areas:

Birth Injuries: Shoulder Dystocia and Erb’s PalsyTrief & Olk's has
significant experience with birth injuries.
To learn more, please visit our birth injury page or our Erb’s Palsy website.

Improperly performed laparoscopic abdominal or gallbladder surgery.
Trief & Olk's represent clients whose surgeons have damaged or cut the bile
duct during laparoscopic gallbladder removal, resulting in a severed connection between
the liver and the intestines. To learn more, please visit our Laparoscopic Surgery page or Gallbladder website.

Orthopedic Malpractice.
Trief & Olk's represents clients who suffered from a wide variety of orthopedic
or neurologic injuries as a result of inadequate surgical or orthopedic care.

Failure to properly and promptly treat heart attacks.
Trief & Olk's represents clients who suffered serious injuries as a result of inadequate
care for a heart attack, where the medical providers did not meet the critical need
to diagnose the condition correctly and treat the condition promptly.

Birth Injuries: Shoulder Dystocia
and Erb’s PalsyTrief & Olk's has
significant experience with birth
injuries. To learn more, please visit
our birth injury page or our Erb’s
Palsy website.

Improperly performed
laparoscopic abdominal or
gallbladder surgery. Trief & Olk's
represent clients whose surgeons
have damaged or cut the bile
duct during laparoscopic
gallbladder removal, resulting
in a severed connection between
the liver and the intestines. To learn
more, please visit our
Laparoscopic Surgery page
or Gallbladder website.

Orthopedic Malpractice.
Trief & Olk's represents clients who suffered from a wide variety of
orthopedic or neurologic injuries as a result of inadequate surgical
or orthopedic care.

Failure to properly and promptly
treat heart attacks.Trief & Olk's
represents clients who suffered
serious injuries as a result of
inadequate care for a heart attack,
where the medical providers did
not meet the critical need
to diagnose the condition
correctly and treat
the condition promptly.

Personal injury cases involving the practice of medicine (whether a medical malpractice case or pharmaceutical injury case) require experience, attention to detail, and a substantial financial investment for a variety of reasons:

It can be difficult to determine the exact cause of the injury:

For a malpractice case, we must determine exactly who was responsible
for the malpractice, whether the hospital, one or more doctors, nursing staff,
administrative staff, etc.

For a pharmaceutical injury case, we must determine if the specific drug
actually caused the injury.

It can be difficult to determine the exact cause of the injury:
・ For a malpractice case, we must determine exactly who was responsible for the malpractice, whether the hospital, one or more doctors, nursing staff, administrative staff, etc.
・ For a pharmaceutical injury case, we must determine if the specific drug actually caused the injury.

Medical malpractice and pharmaceutical injury are
expert-intensive areas of law.

Medical records are often hard to decipher and the attorneys overseeing these
cases must be able to interpret the records and notations and evaluate
whether the patient’s injuries or illness were caused by the
alleged malpractice or drug at issue.

The matters at issue are often quite technical requiring
specific trial expertise.

Medical malpractice cases are especially challenging due to extensive
injuries that dramatically impact the lives of the patients and their
families, or result in death.

It can be difficult to determine
the exact cause of the injury:

・ For a malpractice case, we
must determine exactly who was responsible for the malpractice,
whether the hospital, one or
more doctors, nursing staff,
administrative staff, etc.

・For a pharmaceutical injury
case, we must determine if
the specific drug actually
caused the injury.

Medical malpractice
and pharmaceutical
injury are expert-intensive
areas of law.

Medical records are often hard to
decipher and the attorneys
overseeing these cases must be
able to interpret the records
and notations and evaluate
whether the patient’s injuries
or illness were caused by the
alleged malpractice or drug
at issue.

The matters at issue are
often quite technical
requiring specific trial
expertise.

Medical malpractice cases
are especially challenging due
to extensive injuries that
dramatically impact the lives
of the patients and their
families, or result in death.

Medical Malpractice Successes:

Trief & Olk’s has successfully represented numerous clients in a broad range of medical malpractice cases including:

Multi-million dollar structured settlement negotiated after victory at trial for an
infant who was diagnosed with Erb’s Palsy after the delivering obstetrician
pulled on the infant’s head when the shoulder was stuck.

Multi-million dollar annuity for baby following vaginal delivery in which the physician
failed to properly estimate the fetal weight and missed numerous other indications
that the baby was too big to deliver without performing a caesarian section,
leading to numerous medical complications, including Erb’s Palsy.

Multi-million dollar settlement for woman who suffered from septic shock
and infections after transection of common bile duct during laparoscopic
cholecystectomy.

Jury verdict of more than $500k for patient who suffered permanent knee damage
when physician ignored complaints of pain following knee surgery, resulting in delayed treatment causing infection that destroyed most of the patient’s cartilage.

Medical malpractice cases are especially challenging due to extensive
injuries that dramatically impact the lives of the patients and their families,
or result in death.

Multi-million dollar structured
settlement negotiated after victory
at trial for an infant who was
diagnosed with Erb’s Palsy after the delivering obstetrician
pulled on the infant’s head when the shoulder was stuck.

Multi-million dollar annuity for
baby following vaginal delivery
in which the physician failed
to properly estimate the fetal
weight and missed numerous
other indications that the baby
was too big to deliver without
performing a caesarian section,
leading to numerous medical complications, including
Erb’s Palsy.

Multi-million dollar settlement for
woman who suffered from septic
shock and infections after transection
of common bile duct during
laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Jury verdict of more than $500k
for patient who suffered permanent
knee damage when physician ignored complaints of pain following knee
surgery, resulting in delayed
treatment causing infection that destroyed most of the
patient’s cartilage.

Medical malpractice cases are
especially challenging due to
extensive injuries that dramatically impact the lives of the patients
and their families,
or result in death.

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