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Most medical malpractice cases do take longer than a typical personal injury case. This is because the medicine tends to be more complex and the medical malpractice insurance companies will spend a lot of money defending every case. Also, you must have expert witnesses in order to prove a medical malpractice case and it can take time to obtain expert witnesses and have them thoroughly review the records before giving your attorney an opinion as to whether malpractice has occurred. Finally, the trial of the medical malpractice case may take longer than a typical automobile accident case. Again, in large part this is because the issues tend to be more complex.