Time Limits on Medical Malpractice

28 Oct Time Limits on Medical Malpractice

Texas has a statute of limitations on medical malpractice claims. You generally cannot sue any later than two years after the doctor breached their duties to you. This means that it's always best to act fast if you believe that you have been the victim of malpractice. To determine if you have been victimized by a negligent doctor, you need to talk to an attorney.

Texas Malpractice Lawsuits

Any medical malpractice claim filed in Texas has to meet certain criteria. It's one of the states where malpractice lawyers have to be very good at what they do to get results. For that reason, you'll want to make sure that you hire lawyers who have a lot of experience in winning lawsuits against doctors and hospitals.

Lawyers with experience dealing with Texas medical malpractice laws will be able to determine why you have a claim better than will those who lack that experience. You'll want not only experience, however. You'll want to make sure that the experience translates to case that the lawyer has actually won. If they've brought a lot of cases but haven't won a lot of claims, it might be best to look elsewhere.

Good layers will oftentimes work on contingency. This takes the risk out of the process for the client. If the lawyer successfully argues the claim and wins either a jury award or a settlement from the defendant, they get paid their legal fees. If they lose, they are owed nothing. This ensures that the client can go forward, even if they don’t have a lot of money. It also means that the attorney will not likely take a case that they don’t think has a good chance of winning.

Talk to medical malpractice attorneys if you're interested in seeing if a lawsuit might be an option for you. If it is, you need to act quickly, and putting together a lawsuit might take some time. The attorney will help you to determine how much you should sue for. In some cases, you may find that juries are amicable to giving significant awards. There are some cases of medical malpractice that are egregious and, quite often, juries find that the claimants in these cases are owed large sums of money because of what they have been put through by the doctor and the hospital that was supposed to be offering them competent and effective treatment for their conditions.