“Portraits of a malpractice system that is stricken with frivolous litigation are overblown,” said David Studdert, leader of a team of researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. The team explored a study wherein 1,452 randomly selected U.S. lawsuits were studied in the analysis of “frivolous lawsuits”. It was found that few people were capable of filing a lawsuit against a doctor frivolously, and those who did rarely recieved payment for their so called “losses” – only one in six medical malpractice cases actually recieve compensation.
Researchers found that 97% of the cases studied involved patients who had actually been injured. Of these, about a third involved cases in which the patient’s injury was not clearly linked to medical negligence, a wrong prescription, or a misdiagnosis. The great majority of these claims were properly denied compensation.
The fact of the matter is that people in general will not go to the efforts of taking their problems to court unless the problems are serious. Most of the victims of medical malpractice have been devastatingly injured, or in some cases a member has actually died from a doctor’s errors and the family is fighting to pay the damages caused by the person’s absence. While personal injury litigations can be made easier with the right personal injury lawyer, going through the courts system is no picnic.
If you or someone you know is interested in more information concerning medical malpractice, feel free to contact a personal injury lawyer such as Jim S. Adler of Houston, Texas.
