How Can You Prove Negligence in a Medical Malpractice Claim?

Proving negligence in a medical malpractice claim is a bit of a complicated matter. In addition to simply showing what a doctor or a nurse or a hospital did, we need to hire experts who can testify as to what we call the standard of care.

In other words, what a reasonable physician would do under those circumstances. And we need to then compare that reasonable thing to do with what the hospital did, and that’s how we go about proving medical malpractice when those two things don’t match up.

So, in other words, the hospital didn’t do what a reasonable hospital or a reasonable doctor would do under the same circumstances.