Hospital infection lawsuits on the rise
Hospital infections are on the rise and so are lawsuits that claim medical malpractice caused the infections. The Wisconsin Law Journal recently reported that "A new type of med-mal lawsuit is on the increase -- claims based on hospital infections." According to the Law Journal, "Plaintiffs' attorneys say that hospitals can no longer argue that these infections are inevitable."
Betsy McCaughy, founder and chair of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, said, "This is the next asbestos. Now that the evidence is overwhelming that nearly all infections are preventable, hospitals that don't follow the proven protocols are inviting lawsuits."
Sadly, most of these infections can be prevented through stricter sanitary and bacterial testing procedures.
If you or a loved one was diagnosed with a serious infection during or after a hospital stay, contact the Chicago medical malpractice attorneys at Hurley McKenna & Mertz at (312) 553-4900 to discuss your case.
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