Medical Malpractice Attorneys in Greeneville and Kingsport

Dedicated Trial Lawyers Protecting the Injured and Their Families

Medical malpractice occurs when a doctor or other health care provider supplies care that does not conform to industry standards and that results in injury to a patient.  Examples include the following:

• Misdiagnosing or failing to diagnose a disease or condition
• Failing to provide proper treatment
• Treating a patient with unreasonable delay

If you suspect a medical professional provided you inadequate care and this led to your injury, a Kingsport and Greeneville medical malpractice attorney from Evan Meade & Associates can help.  Our firm has taken on doctors and hospitals and obtained substantial settlements and verdicts for past clients.  If you placed your health and well being in the hands of medical professionals expecting to get better, but instead walked away injured, it is your right to receive compensation for any resulting damages.

Steps involved in filing a malpractice case

The Greeneville and Kingsport malpractice attorneys at Evan Meade & Associates want you to be aware of the basic steps involved in filing a malpractice case.

Contact a malpractice attorney

Medical malpractice law is complicated, and proving that a health care provider acted negligently requires the assistance of malpractice attorneys in Johnson City.  The first thing a lawyer from our firm will do is conduct a rigorous investigation in order to determine if there is enough evidence to file suit. Your attorney will seek to establish:

• Duty
• Breach of that duty
• Injury
• Causation

In plain terms, this mean a case is not worth pursuing if an attorney does not think there are reasonable grounds to establish that substandard medical services were provided and that your injury occurred as a direct result of that service.

Obtain a Certificate of Good Faith

Recent changes in Tennessee law require that you and your Kingsport medical malpractice attorney give any defendants 60 days' notice of your intention to file a lawsuit.  Then, within 90 days of the filing of your lawsuit, your attorney must file a Certificate of Good Faith from a medical expert acknowledging that your lawsuit has merit.

File suit

Your Kingsport malpractice attorney will file the paperwork necessary to start a lawsuit.  This is followed by a period where the opposing party builds his or her defense and both parties interview witnesses and experts.  After that, settlement negotiations may take place.  If a mutually agreeable settlement cannot be reached, your medical malpractice attorney attempts to reach a favorable verdict in court.

Speak with Greeneville malpractice attorneys about your case

Evan Meade & Associates are Johnson City lawyers known as fierce litigators, which is why we are so successful at obtaining large settlements for our clients.  If you have injuries that you believe are the result of medical negligence, contact us to discuss your case.