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You go to the doctor full of hope and promise expecting to leave feeling better than you did before you went. The doctor told you not to worry, this was a routine procedure. And then it happened. Have you, a family member, or a loved one ever felt betrayed by a doctor, nurse, physician’s assistant, dentist, or pharmacist? Have you ever felt like something just was not right with your medical complications? Thomas Robl has the understanding and experience to handle your potential medical malpractice claim. Thomas Robl will analyze and research your records scrutinizing the doctor’s and insurance company’s actions (or lack of action). Consult Thomas Robl concerning your medical malpractice claim today.

When you boil things down the insurance company does not want to pay. The insurance companies have adjustors and lawyers looking at your medical files daily attempting to find anyway to deny you coverage. Believe it. If there is a way for the insurance company to not pay for your operation, prescriptions drugs, or other medical procedure, they will not pay for it. The more egregious notion behind this “money-only” insurance company thinking is that they do not care how much you need the medical procedure. Rather, the only concern is whether that procedure is listed in the fine print of your policy. Nonetheless, the insurance may deny your coverage and then blame you for not choosing a policy that included the specific procedure which you seek to have. Insurance companies provide a service, but they only care about their side of the equation. They do not look out for your interests as they never take their eyes off THEIR bottom line. Thomas Robl is here to represent YOUR interests. It helps to have an experienced attorney on your side when the insurance company and all their resources are pointed against you.

Medical malpractice continues to grow in this country. Doctors and insurance companies continue to blame disgruntled patients and lawyers for the rise in medical insurance premiums. However, doctors still seem to draw huge salaries and the insurance companies are still bringing in large profits. The fact is that insurance companies and doctors do not pay litigants for medical malpractice claims that have no merit. If the claim is “frivolous” then why would they pay?

What the insurance companies and doctors are really mad about is that there are good people out there, like Thomas Robl, that say if you make a mistake while treating patients, and then that patient is hurt as a result, then the patient deserves to be compensated for the doctor’s shortcomings. Doctors have chosen their path to heal people and it is an admirable cause. However, they must be held to standards. This is the path Thomas Robl has chosen. He will make sure that the doctors who are negligent or reckless pay for the damage done to your body and/or mind. If you bring your car to the mechanic for an oil change and then the mechanic tells you, “Oh, I made a mistake and you need a new radiator,” should not the mechanic be responsible for the repairs? You only went there for an oil change and now they are telling you need a four hundred dollar radiator. The same reasoning applies to doctors.

Most people are not sure if medical malpractice is common. It is. The Institute of Medicine performed a study in 2000 finding that “[D]eaths due to preventable adverse events exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516).” Institute of Medicine (IOM), To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (2000). Can you believe that? More people die from medical malpractice each year than car accidents! If you suspect that a doctor, medical professional or insurance company has betrayed you, act now. In Virginia, medical malpractice actions must be brought within two years of the date of your injury. VA Code Ann. §§ 8.01-230 and 8.01-243(A) (LEXIS 2003). Moreover, if you have been injured due to medical malpractice you may be able to hold the hospital liable as well as the doctor, so long as the targeted doctor is an employee and not an independent contractor. McDonald v. Hampton Training School for Nurses, 254 Va. 79, 486 S.E.2d 299 (1997). Thomas Robl can help you make this distinction and discern through legal research and experience who is responsible for your injury.

If you believe that a medical professional’s negligence has done you harm, call Thomas Robl today. Thomas Robl represents injured clients in Prince William County, Fairfax County, Loudon County, Clarke County, Winchester County, and Leesburg. Allow Thomas Robl to enter you life and make a difference. Your consultation is free.

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  Description: Medical malpractice in the United States is a growing problem that erodes at patients’ confidence in their doctors and leads to costly problems.

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