Medical errors can happen when healthcare providers are overworked or fatigued, due to lapses in communication between staff members, or because doctors refuse to listen to patient concerns. If you’ve been injured because your doctor made a mistake, it’s important to hold them accountable. The experienced Mississippi medical malpractice attorneys at Singleton Schreiber can help.
When you choose Singleton Schreiber, you put local lawyers and national resources in your corner. We’re fearless advocates who help everyday people hold healthcare providers, hospitals, and insurance companies responsible for life-changing errors. Our case results - including over $3 Billion in monetary awards - are a testament to how much we care.
Call our Mississippi law office to discuss the details of your medical malpractice case with our award-winning legal team of Mississippi injury attorneys. There’s no charge for your initial case evaluation.
How Does Mississippi Define Medical Malpractice?
Broadly speaking, medical malpractice refers to a healthcare provider’s negligent, careless, reckless, or wrongful actions.
This might involve:
- Misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, or a missed diagnosis
- Birth injuries
- Errors in administering anesthesia
- Brain injuries due to lack of oxygen
- Prescription medication errors
- Emergency room errors
- Failing to order necessary diagnostic tests
- Improper analysis of patient lab results
- Surgical errors, including wrong-site surgery
These types of actions cause a patient’s injury or death, the healthcare provider can be sued for resulting damages.
In Mississippi, most medical malpractice lawsuits are a matter of negligence. As a plaintiff, you will have the burden of proving the following elements:
- Duty of care: The healthcare provider must have owed you a duty of care. A duty is established when a legitimate patient-provider relationship exists.
- Breach of duty: The provider breached this duty because the care provided fell short of expected standards within the medical community. Typically, the standard of care is what a reasonable provider of the same specialty would have done under the circumstances.
- Causation: The provider’s mistake, error, or other actions were the direct and proximate cause of an injury or death that was not a reasonably foreseeable risk of the care provided.
- Damages: You’ve suffered damages - such as medical bills, disability, emotional distress, or disfigurement - due to the provider’s actions or inactions.
Ultimately, you’ll need to prove that your healthcare provider did not demonstrate the level of care, skill, or knowledge that would be expected of them and, as a result, you were injured.
When you choose Singleton Schreiber as your advocate, you won’t have to worry about how to build a successful legal claim.
We’ll handle the rest, beginning with a prompt independent investigation into your case. You’ll be able to trust our medical malpractice attorneys in Mississippi will gather key pieces of evidence, craft an expert affidavit to demonstrate the legitimacy of your case, interview members of your medical team, and enlist the help of independent medical experts and specialists to consult on your case.
You’ll benefit from the full force of our law firm and our attorneys’ considerable experience litigating medical malpractice actions like yours and have the time you need to focus on getting better.
What Damages Can Be Awarded in a Medical Malpractice Claim?
When you file a medical negligence lawsuit against a doctor, hospital, anesthesiologist, pharmacist, or another healthcare provider in Mississippi, you’ll be able to seek compensatory damages to help you move forward.
Compensatory damages - which include economic awards and non-economic awards - can help you recover money for:
- Present and future medical expenses
- Temporary and/or permanent disability
- Lost wages, income, and benefits
- Costs paid out-of-pocket
- Nursing care
- Rehabilitation
- Funeral and burial expenses if you’ve suffered the wrongful death of a family member
- Disfigurement and physical scarring
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Emotional distress
- PTSD
- Chronic physical pain
- Pain and suffering
- Inconvenience
- Loss of consortium
Against a private healthcare provider, there is no limit on economic awards, which are intended to make you financially whole. However, Mississippi does limit non-economic awards, which are intended to compensate for harder-to-value consequences, to $500,000 in medical malpractice cases. A limit of $500,000 total for all damages applies against a state hospital or provider.
Medical professionals can also be ordered to pay punitive damages in some situations. If a medical malpractice lawsuit goes to trial, a Mississippi jury can award these additional damages if there’s clear evidence that the provider acted intentionally or displayed a conscious disregard for a patient's safety.
Our Mississippi personal injury lawyers will actively work to help you recover the full value of your medical malpractice claim. If the defense won’t make a fair settlement offer, they’ll have no choice but to go head-to-head against our award-winning Mississippi trial attorneys in court.
How Long Do I Have to Sue For Medical Malpractice in Mississippi?
Mississippi medical malpractice lawsuits are subject to a two-year statute of limitations. This generally begins to run on the date the malpractice occurs.
The statute of limitations can be tolled if there’s a delay in discovering an actionable injury. In cases where a foreign object is left in the body or when the negligence or injury has been discovered later, such discovery can extend the time for bringing a lawsuit.
You will lose the right to hold your doctor accountable for their mistakes if you miss the filing deadline.
Victims of Medical Negligence in Mississippi Trust Singleton Schreiber
It can be intimidating to accuse your doctor of making a mistake and suing the Mississippi hospital where you received care. The good news is that you don’t have to go through the process on your own.
In fact, you shouldn’t. You are significantly more likely to win your medical malpractice lawsuit with an experienced Mississippi personal injury lawyer at your side.
Injured patients and families in Mississippi choose Singleton Schreiber because we’re award-winning legal advocates with a proven ability to win top results - including billions in settlements and jury verdicts. It’s why we’re recognized as one of the nation’s leading personal injury law firms by Super Lawyers, The National Law Journal, the Daily Journal, and other respected organizations.
Don’t settle for less than your medical malpractice case is worth. Trust our top-rated medical malpractice attorneys in Mississippi to fight for the best possible outcome. We represent clients on a contingency fee basis, so there’s no cost unless we win your case.
Call our Mississippi law office to set a time for a free case evaluation. Members of our team are available to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
