 Practice
Area -- Professional Negligence / Medical Malpractice
The
firm of Spinella & Associates views the representation of people who have
been harmed while receiving medical care as an important mission and goal
of its practice. The firm carefully screens each potential case; it has
access to a team of physicians all over the country who provides objective
opinions as to the efficacy of each particular factual scenario.
From
negligence by a pediatric cardiologist, to breach of standards by HMOs,
hospitals and hospice care institutions, Spinella & Associates have
been involved in many medical malpractice cases, which have served to
redress the damage done to clients who have been seriously injured by
medical negligence. You'll find some of these cases listed elsewhere on
this site. (Click to list of PROFESSIONAL
NEGLIGENCE CASES.)
The
general types of cases in which Spinella & Associates have been successfully
involved, include the following:
-
wrongful death case against a pediatric cardiologist
-
breach of care by optometrists of a little girl who developed double
vision at age 2
- negligence
by various dentists in extracting teeth, utilizing implants and performing
other forms of surgery
- malpractice
by a plastic surgeon on a nose
- malpractice
by a maxillofacial surgeon on a jaw and mouth
- negligence
by orthopedic surgeons performing hand and shoulder surgery
- negligent
provision of managed health and hospice care
- negligence
by an HMO resulting in injury to eyesight because of failure to diagnose
and treat glaucoma
No
professional should be immune from injuries inflicted on patients resulting
from his or her carelessness or deviation from the acceptable professional
standard of care. It should be noted, that in addition to taking on medical
malpractice cases, Spinella & Associates has also been active in the areas
of legal malpractice and general professional malpractice.
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