What is a Hi-Low Agreement in a Medical Malpractice Case
Gary Silverstein
March 30, 2015
What is a Hi-Low Agreement?
What is a Hi-Low Agreement?
If you file a case against a doctor for medical practice in the state of New York, then does the New York State Department of Health automatically begin an investigation against this doctor?
With hundreds of thousands of patients passing through every year, emergency rooms in New York can be busy and hectic places. Although there may be many patients in serious condition who come in at once, each individual patient is still entitled to receive proper care and treatment by emergency room staff.
Women in New York might be concerned about a recent breast biopsy study. Getting a second opinion after a breast biopsy has become more critical since the subject has been studied extensively and the findings show that specialists often misdiagnose them. This is according to a study that was published in an issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association on March 17, which included 240 breast biopsy specimens and 115 U.S. pathologists.
What type of damages can you claim by filing a medical malpractice lawsuit?
Suppose someone in your family is dead and you believe his death was because of someone else’s carelessness. It could be the doctor treating your family member was careless, or the other driver who caused the auto accident was careless.
In a medical malpractice case, the defense hires a medical expert, and this expert gives a negative review, meaning there is liability and responsibility. Then in such a situation will the defense give up?
What is the Purpose of having Patient Safety Rules?
When you have filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in the state of New York, there are number of ways of getting the doctor’s medical chart into evidence. One of the ways is known as a business record exception. This means, the doctor’s records kept in the ordinary course of business, when the doctor was treating this particular patient. Since the doctor keeps these records in the ordinary course of his business, we are allowed to enter such records into evidence.
One of the most common defenses that doctors and their attorneys use in medical malpractice cases is the judgment call defense. When you bring a lawsuit against a doctor, claiming he did something wrong, the doctor could say at trial that it was his medical judgment to treat this patient in the way he was treated.
