Santa Fe Medical Malpractice Attorneys

Holding Negligence Medical Providers Accountable for Catastrophic Injuries

Medical professionals must use the utmost caution and care when working with patients because a single mistake can be disastrous. All it takes in some situations is one moment of medical malpractice to cause the patient to suffer a catastrophic injury or even pass away. Medical negligence and hospital errors are one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the country, year after year, including here in Santa Fe.

McGinn Montoya Love Curry & Sievers and our team of Santa Fe medical malpractice lawyers are here to help you understand and use your rights if you or a loved one were hurt due to negligence that led to medical malpractice. Medical practitioners and the medical institutions that employ them are often protected by major insurance companies and New Mexico legislation designed to lower their liability after a mistake. If you want to fight for the compensation owed to you with confidence, then you should team up with us right away.

On This Page:

• The Difference Our Counsel Can Make
• Different Medical Malpractice Types
• Bad Medical Outcomes
• Value of Your Medical Malpractice Claim
• Learn How to Start a Medical Malpractice Claim

We have the talent and experience needed to create powerful medical malpractice claims. Call (505) 405-4441 to learn more.

See the Difference Our Counsel Can Make

Many law firms will tell you that they can handle a medical malpractice claim, but not as many can actually back those words up. At McGinn Montoya Love Curry & Sievers in Santa Fe, we have intentionally built our practice to focus on catastrophic, life-changing injury claims, like those most often seen after medical malpractice. We have more than 35+ years of experience working on difficult cases like yours and a long history of impressive case results to show that we know what we are doing. When you have to file a claim against a medical provider and possibly a nationwide insurance company, you know that you can trust us with the challenge.

Different Medical Malpractice Types

McGinn Montoya Love Curry & Sievers and our Santa Fe medical malpractice team have been helping wrongfully injured patients for decades. We have seen all sorts of problems and mistakes that constitute medical malpractice and “never events.”

A few common forms of medical malpractice are:

• Causing a birth injury during labor and delivery
• Completing triage in the wrong order
• Failing to diagnose a patient in a timely manner
• Giving a patient unsafe medication
• Misdiagnosing a serious medical condition
• Mixing up a patient’s record with another patient’s
• Not using diagnostic tests to reach an accurate diagnosis
• Operating on the wrong body part
• Reading diagnostic test results incorrectly

No matter how rare the circumstances of your medical malpractice case might be, you can trust that our firm will be ready to help. We never back down from a challenge, especially when we know that our clients are relying on us. For that reason and more, we prepare every single case for litigation. Indeed, many medical malpractice cases will go to trial, even if a settlement is later offered.

Bad Medical Outcomes

Most people have been to the doctor and left unhappy with the care that they received. Does receiving a bad medical outcome to what you thought would be a routine treatment constitute medical malpractice? Usually, no, a bad medical outcome isn’t enough to justify a medical malpractice claim.

No treatment prescribed by a medical professional is guaranteed to go exactly as planned and help the patient, so there is always a risk of treatment failure or unexpected outcomes. Therefore, a bad outcome isn’t medical malpractice in most cases. Again, for medical malpractice to occur, the medical provider must have done something that another medical provider would not have done in the same situation. If the bad outcome happened but your treatment was acceptable, then you might not have a case.

However, don’t assume that you don’t have a claim. You should always take a moment to talk to our Santa Fe medical malpractice attorneys. It might be possible that a bad outcome is just the start of things that went wrong but shouldn’t have.

Value of Your Medical Malpractice Claim

McGinn Montoya Love Curry & Sievers knows how to carefully calculate the compensation owed to you as a victim of medical malpractice, or as someone who lost a loved one to medical malpractice. As attorneys who focus on cases that involve catastrophic, life-changing injuries, we are no strangers to claims with significant values that exceed six or seven figures. Depend on us to fight for the compensation owed to you. While we deal with insurance companies and defendants, you can focus on taking care of yourself and resting.

Let us fight for compensation in your name that helps pay for:

• Lessened enjoyment of life
• Lost wages and income
• Pain and suffering
• Past and future medical treatment costs
• Permanent disability hardships
• Shortened life expectancy due to terminal illness

Learn How to Start a Medical Malpractice Claim

If you only listen to your medical provider, then you could be convinced that medical malpractice doesn’t happen. Before you give up on your claim before it has a chance to start, call (505) 405-4441 at any time and talk with our Santa Fe medical malpractice lawyers. We can discuss what happened to you during a no-cost, confidential consultation and determine if a medical malpractice lawsuit could be justified.