Tampa, Florida, Medical Malpractice Lawyer
The law firm of Valenzuela & Stern, P.A. has served as lead counsel on many of Florida's most significant medical malpractice verdicts and settlements. Medical malpractice lawsuits break out into two primary categories. Serious injuries or wrongful death are directly the result of either physician errors or hospital liability. When doctors make mistakes or fail to diagnose and treat medical conditions in a timely, appropriate manner, the patient may seek money damages for any financial losses and damages resulting from related catastrophic injuries. If a hospital policy or a mistake made by a nurse or orderly resulted in delayed or improper treatment, the patient may have a valid claim for damages, as well. In either case, an experienced medical malpractice attorney must be able to prove that the negligence directly resulted in serious injury, and that the injury directly resulted in loss or damages to the victim.
Representative medical malpractice cases
Contact our office for a no-cost opportunity to discuss your specific medical malpractice injury claim. It is important to remember that medical negligence may be proven anytime a physician or healthcare provider either fails to do something that should have been done or does something that should not have been done which results in serious injury or death. Doctors and other healthcare providers must follow certain standards when caring for patients. While a simple mistake is not enough to constitute negligence, an injury or death caused by the failure to provide reasonably appropriate or common standards of care, or the failure to diagnose a detectable condition, may be malpractice.
Free consultation - No attorney fees unless you recover compensation for your claim
Our firm provides more than 20 years of medical malpractice litigation experience on behalf of injury victims and their families. Medical malpractice litigation is a highly specialized area of trial law. Attorney Henry Valenzuela is a Florida Board-Certified Civil Trial Specialist and our firm has received the AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.* We call on our extensive skills, knowledge, and independent professional resources to present the strongest case possible when seeking maximum damages for medical malpractice injuries and wrongful death lawsuits.
We aggressively investigate and pursue claims for catastrophic injuries and death arising out of:
- Failure to diagnose cancer and other diseases
- Birth injuries, cerebral palsy, Erb's palsy
- Nurse errors
- Surgical errors
- Anesthesia errors
- Medication errors, dangerous drugs
Contact us to schedule a free consultation about your medical malpractice injury or wrongful death claim. You will pay no attorney's fees unless you receive money damages for your claim.
*CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards, and policies.
Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories—legal ability and general ethical standards.
