Toledo Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Birth Injuries · Laboratory Errors · Brain Injuries

At the Law Offices of Gary Osborne & Associates, we aggressively investigate medical malpractice and nursing home abuse cases and pursue the compensation our clients need and deserve. As experienced Toledo medical malpractice attorneys, we hold the medical community accountable for doctor errors that result in serious injury or death.

Birth injuries : If your child suffered an injury in the delivery room, it is critical to evaluate whether preventable errors occurred in the management of the pregnancy or birth.

• Cerebral palsy : A type of brain injury that can result from lack of oxygen during pregnancy or during labor and delivery.
• Erb's palsy : Injury to the shoulder and surrounding nerves that often occurs when excess force is used during delivery or if a doctor fails to perform a C-section for a large baby.
• Forceps or vacuum injury : The negligent use of forceps or vacuum extraction during delivery can result in birth injuries including brain damage, shoulder dystocia, spinal cord damage and skull injuries.

Catastrophic injuries: We have the experience and the resources necessary to help injured people and their families in complex cases involving devastating injuries, including:

• Brain injuries : Patients in hospitals suffer brain damage because of ischemia or hypoxic injury (lack of oxygen to the brain) resulting from anesthesia errors and other medical mistakes. Brain injuries can lead to a coma, which is a very difficult situation for any family.
• Spinal cord injuries : Spinal injury victims are likely to suffer irreparable, serious disabilities including paraplegia or quadriplegia.
• Wrongful death cases : We handle lawsuits involving emotional situations where a family member died due to surgical errors or misdiagnosis.

Hospital negligence : We hold hospitals accountable for failure to monitor patients adequately (nurse malpractice), medication errors, radiology and other lab errors, understaffing or hiring unqualified personnel and failure to promptly treat infections.

• Emergency room errors : When emergency room doctors and nurses fail to promptly and properly assess a patient, they may be liable for the consequences of their negligence. This often comes into play in cases of untreated heart attack or stroke symptoms.
• Anesthesia malpractice : Anesthesia errors may include intubation errors before or during surgery or in the post-operative recovery room, use of the wrong anesthetic, dosage errors and failure to monitor vital signs of a patient under anesthesia.
• Misdiagnosis : Serious injury or death can result when a doctor fails to diagnose a serious condition, such as cancer.
• Surgery malpractice : Failure to properly prepare a patient for surgery can result in serious complications, such as a pulmonary embolism. Before, during and after surgery, proper safety measures must be followed.

Medication errors/prescription errors : If the wrong drug is prescribed or a prescription is filled incorrectly, the effects can be devastating. We are ready to help in these situations.

Dangerous/defective medical devices : We handle cases involving defective defibrillators, defective stents, DePuy hip implants, defective prosthetics and much more.

Nursing home neglect : Injured nursing home residents or their family members often come to us to hold negligent facilities accountable and help ensure that future nursing home residents will not suffer a similar fate. We handle cases involving abuse, neglect, bedsores, nursing home falls, and nursing home death.

Contact a Lucas County Wrongful Death Attorney

Schedule a free consultation at your convenience to discuss an injury or death that may have been a result of negligence or misconduct on the part of a doctor, nurse, therapist, hospital, or nursing home. Call the Law Offices of Gary Osborne & Associates at 419-318-3749 or contact our Toledo law firm online.