Medical Malpractice Defense
Medical Malpractice Defense involves representing healthcare providers, hospitals, and insurers in claims alleging professional negligence, focusing on risk assessment, compliance with medical standards, and strategic defense to mitigate liability and protect reputations.
Why RHP
RHP has defended our clients’ interests against medical malpractice claims for decades. Our attorneys represent physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, osteopaths, nurse practitioners, physicians’ assistants, physical therapists, medical clinics, diagnostic laboratories, other healing arts professionals, ambulance companies, and all other health care providers in these claims.
Approximately 70 percent of all medical malpractice cases in the jurisdictions in which the firm practices are either won by jury verdict or dismissed prior to trial. RHP attorneys understand how high the stakes are in a medical malpractice case. It has been our firm’s experience that when a case is properly prepared and presented with credible testimony from highly qualified experts, a medical malpractice case can be won with a jury, regardless of the jurisdiction in which the case is tried.
Our attorneys are often readily familiar with the medical issues involved in a malpractice lawsuit and have connections with many qualified experts across the country. Through in-depth investigation, identification of medical issues, and consultation with experts, our attorneys form effective and detailed defense strategies.
RHP attorneys have defended cases alleging all types of medical malpractice, such as failure to diagnose and treat, birth defects, surgical complications, and many more.