As many as 19,000 medical malpractice suits are filed each year according to the National Practitioner Data Bank. Many of those are due to such things as inappropriately diagnosis, surgery errors and poor treatment of illness or injury. While nobody wants to think that they could suffer at the hands of a trained and trusted medical professional, it does happen and when it does it is vital that you arm yourself with a qualified attorney who will protect your rights.
O’Shaughnessy, Walker & Buchholz, P.A. have the experience needed to help you maneuver through what can be a complicated legal process to get you the best results possible. They will protect your rights while working to develop a strategy for moving forward. Medical malpractice can cause long term injury, illness and even death. Families of those who have suffered from medical malpractice may also be entitled to compensation for their suffering and any loss that may have come from the harm caused by a member of the medical community. It is important to act quickly once you have discovered medical malpractice has occurred.
The typical statute of limitations for filing medical malpractice is 2 years from the date at which the malpractice was discovered or should have been discovered by the patient. This means that individuals who have suffered at the hands of an inaccurate diagnosis should file the complaint within 2 years of discovering that they had been misdiagnosed. O’Shaughnessy, Walker & Buchholz, P.A. work with victims throughout the state of New Hampshire to help them get the compensation they deserve due to medical malpractice. Their Manchester office is centrally located to enable them to serve individuals in northern areas such as Conway as well as those in the southern section of the state such as Salem.