Health care providers should be the safest people to entrust a loved one’s care to. When a doctor or nurse makes a serious mistake that leads to the death of a patient, he or she can be held financially responsible for that mistake in a wrongful death lawsuit. However, wrongful death cases based on medical malpractice can be challenging to prove. In some cases, the surviving family initially has very little information about how their close relative died. It may not be clear whether this was a medical error, an inevitable death caused by a medical condition or injury, or a mishap that was not the result of negligence on the hospital’s part. A medical corporation is very rarely willing to acknowledge that a patient’s death was caused by malpractice if the family has not already become suspicious. You will need a highly experienced Joliet, IL medical malpractice attorney to help you obtain the evidence you will need to prove your case.
