Have you or a loved one been injured due to Medical Negligence?

Every year in the United States more Americans are killed through medical negligence than die in auto accidents1. Generally, when illness or injury forces you to visit a physician or go to the hospital, you can usually be assured that the doctor's years of experience and training will result in excellent treatment of your ailment. But in truth, physicians are only human, and as such errors are always possible.

Medical malpractice is when a medical provider, whether a doctor, surgeon, nurse, or other health care professional, acts in a manner that deviates from the accepted standard of care in that medical community. To talk with a Pensacola medical malpractice attorney about your case, please fill out our medical malpractice case evaluation form located to the right.

Medical Malpractice Includes:

An error in diagnosis, treatment, or illness management. If such negligence results in injury to a patient, a case could arise against the doctor if his or her actions deviated from the generally accepted standards of practice; against the hospital for improper care, such as problems with medications, sanitation or nursing care; or against local, state or federal agencies that operate hospital facilities.

Medical Malpractice Vedicts & Settlements:
$5.2 million - Annuity Pay-Out of $47 million - Obstetrical Medical Malpractice Case - Brain Damaged Baby
$3.5 million - Obstetrical Medical Malpractice Case - Brain Damaged Baby
$1.1 million - Medical Malpractice
$800,000 - Medical Malpractice - Injury to Bile Duct - Federal Court
$600,000 - Medical Malpractice - Sponge Left in Resulting in Colostomy.
$195,000 - Medical Malpractice - Misdiagnosed Breast Cancer - Federal Court

Our firm handles medical malpractice claims involving:

Anesthesia errors
Medication & prescription errors
Birthing injuries & other pregnancy issues
Brain injuries & spinal cord injuries
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI)
Emergency room errors and delays
Mistaken diagnosis
Negligent treatment
Failure to diagnose - cancer, breast cancer, heart attack, meningitis, stroke
Misdiagnosis or late diagnosis
Obstetrical and gynecological malpractice
Paraplegia & quadriplegia
Surgical errors
Failure to adequately monitor a patient after surgery

Successful representation of medical malpractice victims often requires a law firm with both legal and medical expertise. Staples Ellis + Associates has doctors and nurse consultants available. They review potential cases as they come in, meet with clients to examine and discuss medical issues, and assist the medical malpractice lawyers in developing technical arguments.

Get the Compensation you Deserve!

Medical malpractice, ruins lives everyday! It also destroys the trust and confidence many people place in their medical care professionals. The effects of medical malpractice are often long-term and devastating.

We understand how difficult this can be in a family's life. The medical malpractice cases we take on are led by medical malpractice attorney Tom Staples, whose 30+ years of litigation experience in medical malpractice cases has resulted in his obtaining for our clients some of the largest medical malpractice recoveries in the state of Florida along with numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements.

Staples, Ellis + Associates, P.A. represents numerous such cases where the victims have suffered unnecessary permanent injury, total disability and even death. If you believe you may have been the victim of medical malpractice, contact our medical malpractice attorneys as soon as possible to discuss the facts of your case and receive a professional evaluation of your situation.

1 Medical malpractice kills as many as 98,000 people each year in the U.S. (The Institute of Medicine, To Err is Human; Building a Safer Health System, 2000) as opposed to 45,000 (on average) people who are killed in automobile accidents each year.

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Staples, Ellis + Associates, P.A.
41 North Jefferson Street, Suite 400
Pensacola, FL 32502
(850) 432-4143

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The above is not legal advice. That can only come from a qualified attorney who is familiar with all the facts and circumstances of a particular specific case and the relevant law.

Staples, Ellis + Associates
Pensacola Florida Medical Malpractice Attorneys