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Wrongful Death Lawsuits

• Factors in a Massachusetts Wrongful Death Lawsuit (Part A)
• Factors in a Massachusetts Wrongful Death Lawsuit (Part B)

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Anesthesia Errors Due to Negligence (Part A)

When you're recovering from surgery, anesthesia errors might not be immediately apparent, especially if the effects build over the long term. That's bad news in the case of anesthesia injuries caused by negligence. Most states have a 2-year statute of limitations for filing lawsuits related to medical malpractice. This controls the number of claims in the courts. So does the high expense of bringing a malpractice suit to trial-most lawyers can only take cases that have a good chance of financial success.

That means that you must compile the facts surrounding your anesthesia-related problems with care and weigh them against legal criteria for negligent behavior by a care provider.

Negligence may be proved when:

• A duty of care was promised in exchange for a fee AND
  
• The care provider failed to perform to accepted standards AND
  
• This failure caused a physical or mental personal injury AND
  
• The injury damaged the individual financially, mentally or physically.
  
  

To satisfy these criteria in court, you'll need to present medical bills or copies of insurance premium payments. Your attorney will have to locate an expert witness or two to define accepted standards and the deviance from them. More medical testimony may be necessary to show that the behavior caused your specific injuries. You may need further professional corroboration to demonstrate that the injuries left physical or mental debilitation. If you lost money or peace of mind over it all, you can request economic reparation over and above your medical bills.

If you believe that your injuries warrant this type of effort, you may be able to sue individual medical professionals, the hospital and/or product manufacturers. As you consider the facts of your surgical experience and elements of your claim against the provider, remember the criteria for negligence that they must fulfill. Without satisfying them, a jury cannot make a decision in your favor.

A personal injury attorney that specializes in medical malpractice in Boston, Massachusetts can advise you on the legal issues relevant to your claim. It is important that the lawyer has handled these types of cases and that the attorney understands complex medical malpractice issues.

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Massachusetts personal injury lawyer, Thomas M. Kiley, is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and is a respected member of the American Association for Justice and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

The personal injury attorneys at the Law Office of Kiley Law Group are dedicated to helping the victims of:

• Car, motorcycle, truck, van or bus accident
• Single vehicle accidents such as SUV or 15-passenger van rollovers
• Pedestrian accidents such as a hit and run
• Defective products such as ineffective airbags or seatbelts, prescription drugs with unpublicized side-effects, or hazardous children's toys
• Child injury and child abuse such as negligence
• Birth injuries such as trauma during labor or cerebral palsy

We Serve Clients Across the State of Massachusetts
The firm's headquarters are in Andover, MA and serves the following cities in Massachusetts: Boston, Danvers, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Methuen, Middleton, Reading, and Salem, MA and Salem, New Hampshire.