How Do You Start A Medical Malpractice Lawsuit In New York?
• Understand what a lawsuit is. Lawsuits seek to compensate you for your injuries. They compensate you for: your lost wages, and your future lost wages, your medical expenses, both past and future, and your pain and the suffering it caused in the past, and for the future. Lawsuits do not directly seek to harm anyone’s reputation. A doctor who is sued will not lose their medical license if the lawsuit is successful. A lawsuit attempts to compensate the injured victim, and at the same time, try to ensure that the same type of bad treatment is not repeated in another patient. • Don’t worry about paying for an attorney. You don’t have to pay any money up front to an attorney to handle your case. There is no hourly fee. Medical Malpractice and injury cases are generally handled on contingency. That means that the attorney fee depends upon you winning your case. If you lose, the attorney loses as well, and receives no fee. The expenses that the attorney pays to prosecute your case are techni
