New Orleans Medical Malpractice Lawyer
You trusted a doctor, a hospital, a nurse, and you left more injured than when you arrived. Medical malpractice cases are among the hardest personal injury claims in Louisiana: the law protects providers with special procedures, damage caps, and short deadlines, and the defense is funded by institutions that never run out of lawyers. That is exactly why experience matters. Thomas Corrington has held Louisiana medical providers accountable since 1998.
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What Counts as Malpractice, and What Doesn’t
A bad outcome alone is not malpractice; medicine carries risk even when done well. Malpractice is when a provider’s care falls below the accepted standard – what a reasonably competent provider would have done and that failure causes harm. Proving it requires medical records, expert testimony, and a lawyer who knows how to build the comparison. Common cases we evaluate:
- Misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis, cancer, stroke, and heart attack above all
- Surgical errors, including wrong-site surgery and retained instruments
- Medication and anesthesia errors
- Birth injuries to mother or child
- Emergency room negligence and failures to treat
- Lack of informed consent, treatment you never actually agreed to
Louisiana’s Medical Review Panel: The Gauntlet Before the Lawsuit
Louisiana requires most malpractice claims to pass through a medical review panel; three physicians who evaluate the claim before you may sue a qualified provider. Filing correctly, on time, and with persuasive expert support at the panel stage shapes everything that follows. Unrepresented patients routinely lose winnable claims here on procedure alone. We prepare panel submissions the way we prepare trials.
Damage Caps and Why Full Documentation Matters
Louisiana caps most malpractice recoveries against qualified providers, with future medical expenses handled separately through the state’s patient compensation fund. Working within the cap makes rigorous documentation of future care costs; often the largest real-world loss, absolutely essential. We build that record with treating physicians and life-care planning experts.
Deadlines Are Brutally Short
Malpractice claims in Louisiana generally must be filed within one year of the negligent act or its discovery, and no later than three years from the act itself, among the shortest windows in Louisiana law. If you suspect malpractice, the time to find out is now, not after another opinion, another bill, another month.
Free, confidential case review by an attorney, not a screener
Frequently Asked Questions
How hard is it to prove medical negligence?
Hard, it requires showing the standard of care, the provider’s deviation from it, and the harm that deviation caused, nearly always through expert medical testimony. Hard is not impossible: with complete records and the right experts, meritorious cases succeed. The free consultation tells you which kind you have.
How much does a medical malpractice lawyer cost?
Nothing up front. We take malpractice cases on contingency, advance the substantial expert and record costs, and collect a fee only from a recovery.
Can I sue a hospital, or only the doctor?
Potentially both, plus nurses, pharmacists, and other providers, depending on who deviated from the standard of care and who employed them. Louisiana’s qualified-provider system affects how each defendant is pursued, part of what we sort out early.
What is my malpractice case worth?
It depends on the harm caused, your future care needs, and Louisiana’s damage caps. Because caps limit some categories, maximizing the uncapped and fund-covered components, especially future medical care, is where an experienced malpractice lawyer earns the fee.