Medical Malpractice New Jersey Lawsuits

The medical care givers win far more cases than they lose, sometime as much as 80-100% in any given month. Medical malpractice and provable medical malpractice are very different. Unfortunately, "provability" is no small problem, given the many excuses and explanations available to the malpractice care provider. Beyond that is the hard fact, provability is only one of the hurdles to overcome. A courtroom full of hurdles awaits the injured plaintiff that must be cleared before he or she can convince the jury that he or she deserves a positive verdict.

Medical malpractice New Jersey Lawsuits are quite common because New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the in the nation, and the only state that has had every one of its counties deemed "urban" as defined by the Census Bureau's Combined Statistical Area. Since many people living in New Jersey commute to New York City for medical services, malpractice cases are going to be fluent between the two states. Therefore it is important for your medical malpractice New Jersey lawyer to be sufficient in both medical malpractice New Jersey law and medical malpractice New York law.

Winning a medical malpractice case requires convincing the jury that plaintiff's definition or description of proper care is correct, as opposed to the explanations thrown at the jury by the defense. If the plaintiff can clear that hurdle, then he or she must prove that the medical malpractice caused the bad outcome, and not the initial injury, disease or "unavoidable" but predictable complication of the treatment or injury.

When a person needs medical attention and seeks the assistance of a medical caregiver, the language of medicine is not the usual vocabulary of the patient. If there is a medical malpractice dispute, the defense wants it fought in the defendant medical care giver's language, with the defendant knowing what happened but not how to put it into words. Thus, the injured person must have his medical malpractice case argued, to a degree, in a strange land in a strange language. The "art" of it is for the plaintiff's attorney to translate what happened into terms and actions that are not so foreign, but rather descriptive of what happened, but should not have.

For the first time American’s for Insurance Reform has produced a comprehensive study of medical malpractice insurance in New Jersey, examining specifically what insurers have taken in and what they’ve paid out over the last 30 years. The study makes two major findings: 1. Over the last 16 years, the amount that medical malpractice New Jersey insurers have paid out including all jury awards and settlements, has approximately tracked rates of medical inflation or fallen. 2. Medical insurance premiums charged by insurance companies over the last 30 years in New Jersey have not corresponded to increases or decreases in payouts. Rather, premiums have risen and fallen in concert with the state of the economy. Insurance premiums (in constant dollars) have increased or decreased in direct relationship to the strength or weakness of the economy, reflecting the gains or losses experienced by the insurance industry’s market investments and their perception of how much they can earn on the investment “float” that doctors’ premiums provide.