Medical Malpractice Attorney
Sometimes, healthcare professionals fail to adhere to the required standard of care, or they make mistakes. Unfortunately, catastrophic injuries, permanent disability, and death can result.
The Providence, RI medical malpractice attorneys at Decof & Decof have the knowledge, resources, and experience to hold medical practitioners and professionals accountable for their mistakes and negligence.
Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Expertise
Our results from over three decades of medical malpractice litigation are exemplary. We have obtained multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements against doctors, nurses, surgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists, psychiatrists, dentists, and pharmacists—and with hospitals, hospital staff, and other medical professionals, as well—for the types of injuries caused by their negligence. These can involve the following medical issues and contexts:
- Pregnancy and birth injuries
- Brain injuries
- Spinal cord injuries
- Cardiac/heart complications
- Cancer
- Stroke
Decof & Decof's significant medical malpractice cases
Decof and Decof's medical malpractice lawsuits in Providence, Rhode Island include the following:
- * A confidential multimillion-dollar settlement, after three weeks of trial, on behalf of a man who suffered metastatic gastrointestinal cancer, as a result of a negligently performed pathology examination following the removal of his appendix
- * A $28 million jury verdict and judgment—Rhode Island's largest medical malpractice and wrongful death jury verdict—on behalf of the family of a 32-year-old woman who died as a result of the negligence of an emergency room physician at Newport Hospital who failed to properly recognize, diagnose and treat bacterial pneumonia
Please see Our Record of Success for additional medical malpractice verdicts and settlements. Our attorneys remain devoted to serving the victims of accidents, personal injuries, and medical malpractice in Providence, RI, other areas of the state, and Massachusetts.