Umatilla Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Have you or someone you care about suffered harm due to medical errors in Umatilla County, OR? Perhaps there was a delayed diagnosis of a serious illness, a surgical mistake that caused disfigurement, a medication error, or a birth injury that resulted in permanent damage for an infant. Whatever the specific circumstances may be surrounding suspected medical negligence by a healthcare professional in Umatilla County, you likely feel confused and overwhelmed in the aftermath.

Reactions commonly include grief over loss of prior health and mobility, anger at avoidable mistakes made by trusted physicians, uncertainty over legal options available, and even pressure to "just move on" without addressing what happened. But taking action does not mean fruitlessly dwelling on an unchangeable past. It means fighting for the best possible future under difficult circumstances not of your own choosing.

The knowledgeable medical malpractice lawyers at Moseley Collins Law devote decades of exclusive experience toward representing victims injured by healthcare negligence. Our lawyers have the expertise to thoroughly investigate incidents of substandard medical treatment, build strong legal cases demonstrating breaches in standards of care, and pursue maximum financial compensation from any and all liable parties on your behalf.

If an Oregon healthcare provider's negligence severely harmed you or someone you love, please read on to learn more about how the accomplished medical malpractice lawyers from Moseley Collins Law can help victims and families in Umatilla County.

With extensive backgrounds representing victims of negligence, the legal team at Moseley Collins Law has seen hundreds upon hundreds of instances where substandard medical care or downright negligence caused preventable patient harm both locally and across the country. Some of the more frequent medical errors we have encountered include:

Failure to Diagnose/Delayed Diagnosis

Missing early disease symptoms through inaccurate interpretations of imaging scans, lab results, patient-reported complaints and more causes conditions like cancer, infections or cardiovascular disease to rapidly advance past the point of intervention. Catching breast cancer, stroke, appendicitis and other diagnoses early makes a profound difference.

Surgical Mistakes

Errors in the operating room that breach standards of reasonable care remain among the most catastrophic types of medical negligence we see at Moseley Collins Law. Severe disability and loss of limb functionality occurs when safety rules get ignored, such as operating on the wrong body part, leaving foreign objects inside after surgery, employing improper technique that damages healthy tissues, or failing to prevent postoperative infections.

Childbirth Injuries

When healthcare professionals make poor decisions or demonstrate recklessness during prenatal care through delivery, newborns often sustain brain bleeds, cerebral palsy, brachial plexus injuries like Erb’s palsy and Klumpke's palsy, fractures, and other permanent damage. Any departure from accepted birthing standards must be addressed to help families secure lifelong medical resources, therapies and personal care for affected infants.

Hospital-Acquired Infections

We have seen many heartbreaking cases over four decades where vulnerable hospitalized patients contracted serious bacterial infections like MRSA and sepsis due to unsterile medical facilities or instruments, dangerous superbugs, and lapses in staff hygiene protocols. These wholly preventable illnesses often require long intensive hospital stays, isolation, high-powered IV antibiotics to treat and sometimes result in rapid health decline or death.

Medication Errors

Hospitalized patients rely on nurses, physicians and pharmacy staff to correctly prescribe, dispense and administer all drugs. But errors and oversights still frequently happen involving patients given incorrect medications, incorrect doses dispensed or delivered, overlooked harmful drug allergies and contraindications, inadequate monitoring of side effects, and other mishaps that severely compromise patient health and wellbeing when simple diligence could prevent such harm.

And other types of medical errors -- our extensive legal experience includes seeing many kinds of routine breaches in standards of care that bring preventable, but often catastrophic, injury or accidental death to patients. We know how to prove when healthcare professionals negligently cause harm and what it takes for victims to receive justice.

Here is an overview of the major cities and towns throughout Umatilla County which the experienced medical malpractice lawyers at Moseley Collins Law help provide legal advocacy for victims:

• Pendleton
• Hermiston
• Stanfield
• Umatilla
• Echo
• Milton-Freewater
• Pilot Rock

And more Umatilla County cities, towns, and remote census-designated places - wherever preventable medical negligence causes injury or death, our lawyers offer compassionate legal guidance helping local residents and families pursue compensation covering added medical costs, lost wages, home healthcare aides, therapies, funeral expenses, and other significant injury-related costs when substandard care forever alters lives.

Although smaller in total population than Oregon’s western counties, Umatilla County still offers quality healthcare facilities providing vital medical services to families and visitors every day. Below represents a sampling of major hospitals and specialty medical providers delivering essential health services across Umatilla County currently:

Good Shepherd Medical Center - Based in Hermiston and serving Northeastern Oregon since 1949, this regional hospital provides award-winning care including 24-hour emergency medicine, cancer treatment, orthopedic joint surgery, diabetes & nutrition help and a Level III trauma center.

CHI St. Anthony Hospital - Part of the larger Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) network, St. Anthony has served Pendleton since 1896 offering ER services, orthopedic surgery, oncology, maternal child birth services and senior care.

Pendleton Family Practice - This outpatient clinic operated by CHOICES Regional Health Network provides compassionate family medicine, internal medicine, chronic disease case management, lab tests and school physicals to Umatilla County residents.

Eastwood Clinic - Independent specialty clinic operated by Pendleton Medical Group offering family medicine, pediatrics, orthopedics, oncology, nephrology, rheumatology, and other services.

Morrow County Health District - Although just beyond Umatilla to the northwest, this critical access hospital offers emergency stabilization plus caring primary rural health clinics conveniently serving nearby Umatilla County towns.

And many more public health clinics, private family medical offices, workplace occupational health centers, tribal health programs, and solo rural health practitioners delivering needed healthcare across vast Umatilla County.

Successfully winning fair and full compensation in an Oregon medical malpractice case hinges foremost on having an experienced medical negligence lawyer demonstrate through facts that substandard medical decisions or oversight caused preventable patient injury, disability or accidental death.

Key legal aspects the Moseley Collins Law lawyer team must conclusively establish to prevail in medical negligence litigation include:

Duty of Care - A direct doctor-patient relationship existed establishing a legal duty requiring healthcare providers to furnish competent medical treatment adhering to widely accepted professional standards.

Breach of Duty - The involved medical professionals and institutions demonstrably failed in their clearly defined duty to meet well-established standards of medical care. Their negligent actions fell measurably below what all reasonable medical practitioners would have provided given symptoms and history presented by the patient.

Causation - The identified breaches from accepted medical practice standards caused or significantly contributed to the patient’s subsequent catastrophic injuries, disablement or wrongful death. The grievous harm connects undeniably to medical negligence through expert analysis.

Damages - The injured patient and family continue facing profound suffering and mounting financial losses associated with resulting physical harm, mental anguish over disability changes, lost household wages, reimbursement for extra healthcare costs, and reduced life expectancy - which altogether warrant fair financial damages through accountability and negligence deterrence.

Successfully proving medical negligence cases relies substantially on assembling convincing expert opinions from independent doctors, nurses and specialists able to authoritatively show - based on close review of patients' medical charts - exactly where healthcare standards failed, why no reasonable excuse existed for such failures, and how negligent medical decisions or oversight then led to patient catastrophe.

The accomplished medical malpractice lawyers at Moseley Collins Law leverage over 40 years litigating hospital negligence claims to build robust arguments demonstrating medical accountability on behalf of each injured client. We leave no potential detail unexamined when investigating how patients ended up catastrophically impacted by medical errors.

Our legal team collaborates closely with injured clients, consulting medical experts, hospital records staff and liability insurers throughout such rigorous analysis to ensure gathering all pertinent facts until consensus builds confirming case merits that compel a fair financial settlement. This passionate dedication leads to real results for local victims.

With hundreds of online 5-star patient reviews and millions in financial recoveries for past medical negligence clients over 40+ years, the Oregon medical malpractice lawyers at Moseley Collins Law possess extensive expertise litigating even highly complex hospital and healthcare facility liability legal claims. Our lawyers and medical staff know intricately what effective legal advocacy entails when dealing with situations of preventable patient harm.

Benefits we offer injured victims and bereaved families in Umatilla County and across Oregon struggling in the aftermath of medical errors include:

• Decades of Litigation Excellence - Substantial experience successfully resolving negligence cases from early investigation through settlement or trial when necessary helps maximize outcomes for local victims facing healthcare systems with vast legal resources.
• Client-First Approach - Every injured client works directly with lead partners from our law firm ensuring personalized lawyer attention while we communicate case progress regularly in terms that clients easily understand at their own pace.
• Meticulous Litigation Preparation - We leave no potential detail overlooked while gathering expansive medical evidence and testimonies then utilizing multiple independent specialists to precisely analyze records which proves how breaches of standards caused patient damage.
• Reputation for Successful Results - Our proven mediation and courtroom track record compels higher pre-trial settlements as opposing counsel respects our willingness to try cases before Oregon civil court juries when just compensation for clients remains unmet. We persistently fight for victim rights.

The call or online inquiry is 100% free at Moseley Collins Law to initially discuss your potential Umatilla County medical negligence legal claim. Please reach out 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via call 800-426-5546 or through our simple online contact form. We stand ready to guide victims and grieving loved ones toward truth and justice after medical errors cause catastrophic loss.

By Oregon statutes ORS chapter 677, medical malpractice represents when a licensed healthcare professional fails to meet widely accepted standards of medical care through negligent actions or lack of appropriate actions, resulting in otherwise preventable patient injury or accidental death. Doctors, nurses, surgeons, pharmacists or other providers legally commit medical negligence whenever substandard care, skill, judgment or attentiveness violates the trust duty owed directly to a dependent patient under care which then brings harm.

Absolutely not. Medicine inherently deals with complex uncertainties where risks remain ever-present and some procedures hold only probability of success, not guarantees for any given patient. However in those instances where clear-cut negligence, incompetence or reckless oversight occurs and directly results in catastrophic injury or wrongful death to a patient, reasonable grounds may support a medical negligence legal claim pursuant to ORS chapter 31 laws.

An intricate analysis would follow assessing whether standards of care was breached and whether such breach definitively caused subsequent patient harm rather than an unavoidable complication occurring. Skilled medical malpractice lawyers guide victims through this detailed investigative process.

Successful verdicts and settlements secured by the accomplished medical malpractice lawyers at Moseley Collins Law aim to recover fair compensation for victims covering all tangible plus intangible losses tied to the proved medical negligence. This includes not only property losses, medical costs and lost wages, but also recovery for loss of enjoyment of life, disabilities, disfigurement, physical pain, mental health therapy expenses, in-home nursing care costs and other negligence-related losses covered under Oregon law.

Additionally for wrongful death claims, families may also pursue fair monetary damages connected to grief over loss of companionship and love, funeral costs and other death-related impacts. Our lawyers devote substantial legal resources toward compiling life care plans from specialists which fully portray the true costs medical negligence imposed upon our clients long-term.

With over four decades nationally representing victims of medical negligence and consistently delivering record results through settlements and jury verdicts, Moseley Collins Law holds extensive legal experience specifically handling medical injury cases from early investigation through trial. Dedicated clients gain representation by a proven advocate ready to stand up to large negligent healthcare networks. Recoveries for clients regularly reach seven and eight figures due to reputation precedents and refusal to settle for less.

Attorney John Kinney

1012 SW King Ave Suite 104

Portland, OR 97205

Phone: (503) 210-1990