Puyallup Medical Malpractice Lawyer

When healthcare professionals fail in their duty to provide adequate care, patients can suffer lasting damages. Medical errors like surgical mistakes, improper treatment, childbirth injuries, failure to diagnose serious conditions, medication overdoses, and other forms of negligence can completely disrupt your life.

After an incidence of medical malpractice, you need an experienced lawyer to address the complex legal, medical, insurance, and emotional issues involved in seeking justice. The dedicated medical malpractice lawyers at Moseley Collins Law have spent over 40 years helping injured clients and grieving families recover damages after poor medical care. We understand how to navigate these very sensitive cases to uncover the facts, determine accountability, and pursue maximum compensation for your losses.

This page explores key aspects of proving and filing a medical malpractice lawsuit in Puyallup, WA. It explains your legal protections, how we build strong cases, the types of damages you may recover, and why our representation makes a difference for injured victims.

Medical malpractice claims must clearly establish professional negligence occurred under Washington state laws. According to RCW 7.70.040 outlining professional negligence standards, as a plaintiff you must prove:

• A patient-provider relationship existed where the healthcare provider owed you a duty of care yet failed to abide by that duty.
• The provider breached the accepted standard of care by not treating your condition with the degree of skill, care and learning expected of an average healthcare professional in their field of medicine.
• This breach of duty directly caused you identifiable physical injury.
• You suffered extensive damages due to the injury stemming from the breach.

Some poor medical outcomes do not necessarily indicate negligence. However, if your doctor or other provider made serious, preventable errors falling below professional standards of medical care, resulting in harm, then malpractice may apply.

An experienced medical malpractice lawyer can pursue strict accountability through legal action when healthcare professionals fail patients. Victims of negligence deserve fair remedies to help rebuild stability after suffering damages.

The knowledgeable medical malpractice lawyers at Moseley Collins Law have handled negligence cases across a wide range of specialties and health settings. Each malpractice case depends on its distinct circumstances regarding standard of care breaches and resultant injury. But some frequent examples we see involving potential malpractice when poor healthcare causes significant patient harm include:

• Surgical errors - Botched operations, mistakes during invasive procedures, anesthesia oversights, and other surgical missteps often severely impact patients.
• Childbirth injuries - When medical teams fail to adhere to proper protocols during prenatal care or delivery, infants and mothers can experience devastating outcomes.
• Cancer & disease misdiagnosis - Failure to promptly recognize emerging conditions through testing delays, oversight of symptoms, or test result misinterpretation contributes to patient mortality and morbidity.
• Nursing home neglect - Elderly residents often suffer harm when staff fails duties to prevent falls, treat bedsores, ensure proper nutrition and hydration, give correct medications, plus address other medical needs.
• Emergency room oversights - Busy ERs rely on split-second decisions, but failing to diagnose serious presenting symptoms or order prudent tests constitutes negligence.

And more. Hospitals, specialty clinics, doctors’ offices and individual practitioners all carry malpractice liability. We devote all resources necessary to prove each case and determine any source of accountability.

Some of the major health facilities serving in Puyallup area include:

Part of the expansive MultiCare system, Good Samaritan offers emergency, cancer, stroke and other critical community care.

Located just 12 miles west in Tacoma, many Puyallup residents visit CHI Franciscan's St. Joseph for specialty treatment.

For advanced cancer diagnosis and treatment including complex surgeries, clinical trials or chemotherapy, locals often travel to Seattle Cancer Care Alliance facilities.

No one expects to become another heartbreaking medical negligence statistic. Yet errors still occur even at reputable institutions under quality clinicians. If you or someone you love suffered harm from lapses in standards of care, Moseley Collins Law can provide knowledgeable, empowering support. Our lawyers invest all necessary assets so truth prevails and those responsible make amends. But securing your best path ahead starts with an initial conversation.

Successfully resolving a medical malpractice lawsuit allows innocent victims to claim extensive financial compensation where applicable. Monetary remedies cannot erase scars or rewind time, but they can ease burdens moving forward. Damages we pursue might cover:

• Medical expenses from hospitalization, surgeries and long-term treatment
• Rehabilitation and at-home healthcare
• Lost income from missed work time
• Loss of future earnings due to disability
• Plus all other quantifiable costs

• Physical pain and emotional distress
• Disfigurement from scarring or amputation
• Loss of consortium and family stability
• Physical impairment impacting mobility
• Plus other qualitative lifestyle effects

We retain finance and vocational experts to accurately calculate economic damages you now face following life-altering effects of medical errors. Then our legal team works diligently toward recovering full punitive remedies from those responsible. You concentrate on healing while we handle legal complexities.

Moseley Collins Law stands uniquely equipped to champion our Puyallup area neighbors facing medical dispute hardships. For over 40 years, our lawyers have provided compassionate, personalized support through litigation complexities. We remain dedicated to protecting client interests every step, including:

• A Proven 40+ Year Record of Results - Our accumulated expertise successfully resolving healthcare negligence cases involving all manners of damages translates into effective representation tailored to your situation.
• We Prepare Thorough, Methodical Cases - Meticulous legal preparation includes consulting renowned independent specialists to reinforce arguments essential for pursuing your rightful remedies.
• We Handle Cases on a Contingency Basis - This means no upfront payments. We collect no fees at all unless successfully resolving your case, providing extra incentive to secure you maximum available compensation.
• We Have the Substantial Resources It Takes - Medical malpractice cases demand extensive assets for evidence analysis, expert testimony, negotiations, potential trial needs and more which we readily dedicate because your hardship fuels our advocacy.
• Most of All: We Care - Our lawyers appreciate trauma that medical errors cause. We remain dedicated to professionally yet compassionately helping you overcome this life hardship.

The pain stemming from medical negligence presents plenty burden without fighting legal battles. So let us shoulder those challenges for you. Contact our office so we can launch urgent case investigation and give you hope again.

A wide range of errors could potentially qualify as medical malpractice, including surgical mistakes, improper treatment, failure to diagnose conditions, medication errors, childbirth injuries, and more. A lawyer can assess if negligence caused your injury.

Top malpractice lawyers work on a contingency fee basis - meaning they only collect if they win your case. This spares clients any upfront costs. Our goal is securing the largest possible settlement or award.

You may recover all economic costs stemming from the malpractice, plus pain and suffering damages. With an expert lawyer fighting for patient rights, settlements often reach millions of dollars depending on case circumstances.

With over 40 years of proven success on complex medical malpractice cases, we possess substantial experience, resources and determination to win difficult cases. We’ve recovered millions for injured clients thus far. Our record delivers results.