Medical Malpractice

Hunter Maclean's Medical Malpractice attorneys have been representing hospitals, physicians and other medical care providers in medical malpractice actions for over 20 years. The Firm's attorneys have substantial experience in the following types of matters:

Defending healthcare providers against claims that they or their employees were negligent or deviated from the applicable standard of care in the treatment of their patients or visitors.

Representing physicians in front of the Georgia Composite State Board of Medical Examiners relating to medical licensor issues.

Counseling and assisting healthcare clients in methods of potentially reducing their exposure to future medical malpractice claims, including providing educational in-service programs to employees on such issues as documentation and medical charting.

Defending manufactures of medical devices.

Legal Focus Highlights

Successfully defending a hospital in a medical malpractice claim asserted against the hospital and a local radiologist by a patient who had become a paraplegic, allegedly as a result of a spinal abscess. The plaintiff alleged that the radiologist who reviewed his MRI at the hospital misread the films and that the hospital was liable for the doctor's alleged negligence. Early in the case, Hunter Maclean was able to obtain summary judgment for the hospital on the basis that the radiologist who reviewed the films was not an employee or agent of the hospital.

Obtaining a defense verdict for a hospital in a trial in which the plaintiff alleged negligence on the part of the hospital's nurses in failing to properly care for a patient's wounds following heart surgery.

Obtaining summary judgment on behalf of an emergency room physician staffing firm in a federal wrongful death action wherein the plaintiff claimed that one of the employed emergency room physicians failed to admit a patient with chest pain who soon thereafter expired.

Obtaining summary judgment on behalf of a pharmacy in a federal malpractice action in which an employed pharmacist dispensed the wrong medication to the plaintiff who alleged she became a diabetic as a result of taking the wrong medication. Summary judgment was awarded on the basis the plaintiff was unable to present medical testimony that the dispensing of the wrong medication actually caused the plaintiff to become diabetic.

Obtaining summary judgment for the maker of an allegedly defective medical device, decision was affirmed on appeal.