PATIENT LAWSUITS AGAINST MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Preparing for the inevitability of being drawn in as a defendant in patient litigation.

When things go wrong in the medical environment, they tend to go horribly wrong. And when the aggrieved party is a patient, the result tends to be a large and costly lawsuit. And because of their exorbitant monetary demands, they rarely, if ever, are restricted to a single individual or entity. Instead, these lawsuits tend to name every person and business entity that might have had the slightest involvement in the incident, even if the connection is purely theoretical and undertaken without any substantive investigation.

Whether it occurs at the inception of a patient lawsuit or some time after court proceedings have been initiated, you and your business could find yourselves a participant of expensive patient litigation. These are never pleasant days, as the costs to you and your insurer in defending the court action will not be insignificant. Yet, hopefully you had previously instituted viable protections and safeguards into your medical technology, in consultation with your legal counsel, and your contractual arrangements shift much of the legal burden unto the parties utilizing your medical technology, that you have increased confidence moving forward with your legal defence and, where necessary, settling for a comparatively lower number.

For knowledgeable and experienced legal representation in advancing your medical technology business in a highly competitive and legally demanding business environment, contact medical technology lawyer Christopher R. Neufeld at 416-887-9702 or Chris@MedicalTechnologyLawyer.com.