Medical Malpractice CALIFORNIA MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ATTORNEYS The breadth of our experience in medical matters includes obstetrics, gynecology, oncology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, plastic surgery, pediatrics, infectious diseases and cardiology.  Whether the problem involves a delay in diagnosis, a failed procedure or an operative complication, our medical malpractice lawyers can handle it. Our medical malpractice team is skilled in claims against physicians, nurses, hospitals and pharmacists.  We have successfully prosecuted claims for many years against healthcare providers.  Our medical liability attorneys specialize in cases against HMO’s, including Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, and Kaiser Hospitals. We have successfully represented both adults and children in medical negligence claims.  If your child has sustained brain damage or cerebral palsy because of a medical error, call us.  If you or a loved one has been the victim of a mis-prescription, call us.  If a loved one has died because of a missed diagnosis or a treatment error, call us. We provide comprehensive medical malpractice representation for clients injured while receiving medical care.  Our medical malpractice lawyers have successfully represented clients injured and clients who lost loved ones under a wide range of circumstances, including claims involving: Failure To Diagnose Birth Injuries Kaiser HMO's Negligence  Cerebral & Erb’s Palsy Emergency Room Negligence Surgical Errors Negligence by Nurses Nursing Home Negligence, Neglect Our medical malpractice attorneys have considerable experience examining, preparing, and presenting complicated medical evidence. We work with a dedicated team of medical experts to be sure every potential avenue of liability is explored in every medical malpractice case. EXAMPLES OF OUR SUCCESS Putting Lens into Eye Upside Down and Backwards – Confidential Settlement Our medical negligence team negotiated a confidential settlement on behalf of an elderly woman who suffered eye damage due to a botched surgical procedure.  Although the Defendants argued that the loss of eyesight was pre-existing and continuing to deteriorate due to the elderly woman having suffered from diabetes for years, our team negotiated a favorable settlement for our client with minimal stress, strain and attorney fees and costs to our client.  For example, we did not have to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars for an eye-doctor to testify on our behalf that the other eye-doctor was negligent.  Our medical liability team showed that although diabetes may have played a role and our client suffered from previous vision problems with her eye, that we would fight hard for our client, so the case settled favorable to our client without having to engage in costly litigation.  The settlement was very substantial, although confidential in amount. Failure to Diagnose Cancer – Confidential Settlement Our malpractice attorneys concluded a case on behalf of a woman who died of cancer. Our attorneys proved that both the woman’s primary care physician, and a laboratory which failed to follow up properly on biopsy slides, were responsible for the failure to diagnose and treat cancer in its early stages. Through the testimony of experts in pathology, our attorneys demonstrated that the proper tests were not conducted to find out whether or not our client had cancer.  Experts in cytology testified that the laboratory should have brought these abnormalities to the attention of the primary care physician. The settlement was very substantial, although confidential in amount. Botched Orthopedic Surgery – Confidential Settlement Our malpractice attorneys negotiated a settlement in a confidential amount on behalf of a middle aged man who suffered a fall on rollerblades and broke his arm.  Pins and screws were put into his arm to help to stabilize, strengthen and heal his broken arm.  However, one screw was misplaced and resulted in loss of movement of our client's arm.  Our client was put into physical therapy and told to rotate his arm, supination and pronation.  Although he could pronate fine, he could not supinate due to the misplaced screw.  A further surgery was necessary to remove the misplaced screw.  Although the Defendant had a medical expert to say that the standard of care was not breached, we fought hard to obtain a favorable settlement for our client and retained our own expert.  The settlement was very substantial, although confidential in amount. Botched Dilation and Curettage – Confidential Settlement Our malpractice attorneys negotiated a settlement in a confidential amount on behalf of a young woman who suffered a badly conjoined twins pregnancy.  She was advised that she would have to have an abortion to terminate the pregnancy.  The dilation and curettage operation was badly botched, the OB-GYN punctured her uterine wall which resulted in internal bleeding.  Although our client survived due to a successful blood transfusion, she may have lost the ability to have children as a result of the botched dilation and curettage procedure. Although the Defendant had a medical expert to say that the standard of care was not breached and that the mishap was a normal risk of the D&C procedure, we fought hard to obtain a favorable settlement for our client and retained our own expert to say that the standard of care was breached.  The settlement was very substantial, although confidential in amount.