Medical malpractice cases involve claims against doctors, hospitals, dentists, nursing home personnel, and a host of other health care providers. From a legal standpoint, medical malpractice occurs when a doctor, hospital employees or other care givers fall below the applicable standard of care when treating a patient. From a real world perspective, malpractice occurs when doctors violate any one of the many patient safety rules that are in place to guide doctors in the care of patients, causing injury to the patient.

When a doctor or other healthcare professional falls below the standard of care and patient is injured or suffers other adverse consequences, the patient is entitled to bring a claim for damages resulting from that professional negligence. Damages for medical malpractice claims include compensation for past, present, and future medical expenses, pain and suffering, emotional distress and anguish, disfigurement and/or deformity, disability, lost wages, impairment of the patient’s ability to function as a whole person, and loss of consortium. If you believe that you or a family member has been injured as a result of medical negligence, please call for a free consult. We will be happy to discuss Indiana medical malpractice law with you and help you evaluate your claim.

David J. Cutshaw has been litigating medical malpractice cases since 1982. Leslie Gibson has been actively litigating these cases since 2005. They are assisted by an experienced and thorough Nurse Paralegal, Cheryl Keene and attorney TaKeena Thompson. Please see their individual biographies for more information.

Although the Firm is able to litigate virtually any type of medical malpractice case (with the aid of physician consultants), the following are examples of cases we have successfully litigated in the past: