Medical Malpractice & Professional Negligence
When a doctor or other healthcare provider makes a medical mistake, the results for the patient can be devastating. Injuries caused by medical negligence can have life-long impacts on the patient and their families. These injuries may result in significant medical bills, costs for future medical care, lost wages, and physical and emotional pain, suffering and mental anguish.
Medical malpractice claims are among the most complex personal injury claims because of the complicated medicine involved and the unlimited resources of the hospital and insurance companies defending the claims. The medical malpractice attorneys at Silverman Thompson have the experience and resources to successfully advocate for our clients in this complicated arena, while compassionately guiding them through a difficult and painful experience.
Senior Partner Andrew G. Slutkin leads the firm’s medical malpractice department and has over 30 years of experience litigating high-stakes, complex medical malpractice matters against many of the largest and most world-renowned hospitals and healthcare institutions in the country. Mr. Slutkin is assisted by Partner Ethan S. Nochumowitz, who has more than a decade of experience successfully prosecuting catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims arising out of medical negligence. Mr. Slutkin and Mr. Nochumowitz collectively have recovered more than six hundred million dollars for their clients.
Mr. Slutkin and his team have successfully resolved hundreds of medical malpractice cases in a variety of areas, including:
- Wrongful birth
- Brain injuries
- Spinal cord injuries
- Cardiac arrhythmia
- Misdiagnosis
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Our Process
Our investigation of your malpractice claim starts with a detailed conversation with one of our experienced medical malpractice attorneys so we can learn more about what happened to you. From there, we will order all of the relevant medical records, organize them, and review them in detail.
The next step is to have the medical records reviewed either by our legal nurse consultant (who is a Registered Nurse), or by an expert physician in the relevant field of medicine. One of the resources that we have that sets us above most other medical malpractice attorneys is our access to top, highly trained medical experts who were educated at the country’s most prestigious medical schools and work at world-renowned hospitals.
If after reviewing the medical records, our experts are able to certify that in their opinion, the healthcare provider violated the standard of care (acted negligently under the circumstances), we will make a pre-litigation claim or file a lawsuit against that healthcare provider which begins the process of obtaining the compensation that our clients deserve.
It should come as no surprise that doctors, the hospitals that employ them, and the insurance companies that insure them, have essentially unlimited resources to defend medical malpractice claims in an effort to avoid providing fair compensation to patients and their families. It is therefore crucial that victims of medical malpractice hire attorneys like Silverman Thompson who have the knowledge, risk tolerance, and the resources to take on the healthcare institutions and their insurance companies.
As a result of Silverman Thompson’s significant track record of success in these case, and our demonstrated willingness to take medical malpractice cases to a jury trial, when necessary, hospitals and their insurers take us—and by extension, our clients— seriously.
Significant Verdicts and Settlements
As a result of our wealth of knowledge and experience handling medical malpractice cases, we regularly obtain multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements for our deserving clients who have been injured and harmed by medical mistakes. The following is just a sample of those recoveries:
- $7,600,000 for failing to properly interpret a prenatal sonogram
- $5,000,000 for wrongful death due to the failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism
- $4,000,000 for failure to diagnose a spinal cord condition
- $3,500,000 for negligent implantation of a spinal cord stimulator
- $3,100,000 for failure to timely diagnose and treat lymphoma
- $2,999,000 for failure to prevent pulmonary embolism
- $2,900,000 for failure to diagnose infection resulting in leg amputation
- $2,500,000 for failure to diagnose infection resulting in leg amputation
- $2,500,000 for failure to prevent stroke following vascular surgery
- $2,000,000 for failure to diagnose a chromosomal abnormality
A more comprehensive list of Silverman Thompson’s significant verdicts and settlements can be found here.
As a result of verdicts and settlements such as these and others, hospitals and their insurers consider Mr. Slutkin and his team to be among the most highly respected medical malpractice attorneys in Maryland.
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