Santa Fe and Las Cruces Malpractice Attorneys

What information to provide your attorney

If you believe you have been injured as the result of medical malpractice, it is in your best interest to contact a Santa Fe or Las Cruces malpractice attorney. The malpractice attorneys in Las Cruces and Santa Fe at The Perrin Law Firm can help you determine if your situation meets the requirements for filing a claim.

Some of the basic requirements for filing a medical malpractice lawsuit include:

• A relationship between you and the medical practitioner existed. This simply means that you must have hired this professional and they must have agreed to have been hired. So you cannot sue a doctor you met at Starbucks that gave you some advice.
• The medical practitioner was negligent in some way. Just because you do not like the way you were treated does not mean you have a case. You have to be able to prove that the medical practitioner failed to fulfill his or her duty.
• Negligence led to injury or harm. The incompetence of the medical practitioner’s incompetence must have led to injury or harm. You must prove that it is “more likely than not” that your injury was caused by failure from the medical practitioner’s failure to fulfill their his or her required duties.

Saving evidence

Some of the things you can do to give your case a better shot chance of at success include:

• Writing a journal. The more you write down about your experience, the more likely some of the information will be useful in court. This can include names of hospital staff, dates, times, locations, and a timeline of events. Even if things seem trivial, writing them down can prove helpful in the long run.
• Save everything and stay organized. Save all hospital bills and records. Any document associated with your case should be saved and filed away in an organized manner so that it can be easily located if your attorney deems it useful.

Contact a malpractice attorney if you believe your injury is the result of medical malpractice

For more than 30 years, our malpractice attorneys in Santa Fe and Las Cruces have been fighting for New Mexico medical malpractice victim rights, holding health care professionals accountable for victim injuries. Call us toll-free at 1-866-606-1201 to schedule your initial consultation or simply use our convenient online form to tell us about your injury. You pay us nothing unless we recover for you. We serve clients in New Mexico with a focus on Las Cruces and Santa Fe in southern New Mexico as well as Roswell. We also practice in the courts of Texas and can help with medical and legal malpractice cases and personal injury cases in Texas.