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We know what it’s like to feel helpless. We take medical malpractice personally.

In this powerful video, Allen Tittle shares a deeply personal experience of facing a medical emergency with his own child. He highlights the unique and complex nature of medical malpractice cases, emphasizing the importance of hiring lawyers with specific expertise in this area. Tittle’s firm, Tittle & Perlmuter, promises to go the extra mile to uncover the truth and provide families with the answers they seek in the wake of medical malpractice.

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Medical negligence can result in catastrophic injuries or wrongful death, prompting rightful lawsuits by the victims. According to the Journal of Patient Safety, between 210,000 and 440,000 patients die as a result of medical negligence or malpractice each year. In other words, medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in America. They fall behind heart disease and cancer, respectively. A medical malpractice lawyer is ready to help the victims of these errors.

After an injury caused by a doctor or other healthcare provider, you may be entitled to recover compensation for your losses. A dedicated personal injury attorney has handled numerous cases throughout the area. This is because our team is committed to fighting for the compensation you deserve. 

Medical malpractice can have devastating, lifelong effects. You will need to cover medical bills and other losses associated with injuries as a result of being a victim of medical negligence. Let us help.

What is Medical Malpractice?

Medical malpractice is defined as an error on the part of healthcare providers that results in an injury to a patient. Doctors, nurses, or another hospital employee can cause the injury. Medical negligence is another term for malpractice. To prove negligence, you must show the medical provider violated the accepted standard of care. 

You must also prove that this specific violation resulted in serious harm to the patient. In other words, malpractice occurs when a medical care provider fails to provide care within the requisite standard of care, which leads to injury or death.

It is important to note, however, that a poor outcome or surgical complication does not necessarily mean that the medical care provider was negligent. Our medical malpractice attorneys can help you determine if your healthcare provider did not provide acceptable care or if medical mistakes occurred.

When an unexpected death, brain injury, paralysis, loss of limb, or some other type of catastrophic injury occurs under medical care, a thorough investigation should take place. Of course, someone with healthcare professional negligence case experience should handle the investigation.

Tittle & Perlmuter has that experience. If you have been hurt or lost a loved one as a result of doctor error, call Tittle & Perlmuter. Our experienced Ohio medical malpractice lawyers have recovered millions of dollars for their clients and will pursue every dollar of compensation you deserve for your medical negligence case.

Allen Tittle Explains Medical Malpractice

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Types of Cases You Need Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Medical malpractice can come in a variety of forms, the effects of which can vary significantly. Typically it depends on the patient’s situation. The following are common causes of patient injury or death. Related injuries should be investigated to determine if a medical provider was negligent.

These claims can be made against any type of medical care provider including doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, chiropractors, hospitals, clinics, and other medical providers.

However, be aware that there are strict time limits you must meet to file a lawsuit. The courts strictly enforce these complex time limits. Generally, in Ohio, there is only one year to bring a medical negligence claim, unless an exception applies. It is in your best interest to speak to a lawyer who is familiar with physician malpractice as soon as possible.

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Medical Malpractice Frequently Asked Questions

Hey folks, Allen Tittle here, Cleveland’s medical malpractice lawyer. One topic that I would like to discuss today is anesthesia malpractice. Folks, when you go to have surgery, a lot of times you have to be given what’s called “general anesthesia.” That’s when you’re put asleep in order for the surgeon to carry out the operation.

Now, there are specific guidelines any anesthesiologist must follow in order to make sure that the patient is safe. One of those guidelines has to do with looking at the medical history of the patient. Specifically, you have to know what allergies the patient has. If that patient is allergic to the specific type of anesthesia that’s going to be given, you don’t want to give that type of anesthesia. The other aspect is you have to monitor the patient when they’re under anesthesia. If not, that patient could have a lack of oxygen to the brain and suffer a brain injury.

Folks, if you or a loved one feel that you’ve been a victim of anesthesia malpractice, please give us a call. Thank you.

Hey folks, Allen Tittle here. Cleveland’s medical malpractice lawyer. The topic that I’d like to discuss today is nursing home malpractice. Now folks, nurses are the backbone of our healthcare system and, for the most part, are hardworking and want to do what’s best for their patients. But occasionally, because of understaffing or just carelessness, things happen. Bad things. One example that we see from time to time, generally because of understaffing, is a failure to reposition or turn the patients. This leads to pressure sores. Other common mistakes are simply giving the wrong medication, failing to monitor the patient in a hospital session settings such as their pulse ox, or how much oxygen they have in their blood, or even their blood pressure. Last but not least, the most common source or example of nursing malpractice has to do with falls. They just aren’t monitoring the patient because they have, generally speaking, too many patients to deal with, and a patient may have to go to the restroom. They try to get up on their own, and they fall and break a hip. Or the order calls for what’s called a “two person assist,” and one nurse decides to try to move or transfer the patient by themselves. They drop the patient, and the patient fractures their hip. Folks, nursing malpractice is a serious issue in today’s healthcare system. If you or a loved one feel like you’re a victim of nursing malpractice, please give give us a call.

Hey folks, Allen Tittle here; Cleveland’s medical malpractice lawyer. One question that we get from time to time here in the office and also during jury selection and a trial is, ‘what is the difference between medical malpractice and medical negligence?’ The truth is they’re one and the same. There is no difference. This means that in order to be successful in a medical malpractice case we have to show that the medical professional did not act as a reasonable, prudent provider would under the same or similar circumstances. In other words, did that medical professional break the rules that they must follow? If you feel that you have suffered an injury or a loved one to suffered an injury as a result of a doctor, nurse, or anesthesiologist breaking the rules, please give us a call or visit our website. I hope that provided some more information on the difference or lack thereof of medical malpractice and medical negligence. Take care.

Hey folks Allen Tittle here. Cleveland’s Medical Malpractice lawyer. Of late we’ve been getting a lot of calls and inquiries about the tragedy that has affected close to a thousand patients, relating to the destruction of their eggs and embryos at university hospitals. First let me say that here at Tittle and Perlmutter our our hearts go out to the folks that were affected by this, but I do want to discuss what we know so far. First of all, we know that this destruction likely occurred, because of human error. First the facts that are out there in the public right right now tells us that number one, there was an issue with the alarm system, being physically turned off, by an individual. This alarm system would alert the folks at university hospitals that there was an issue with the temperature in the freezer. The second issue that we’re aware of has to do with the liquid nitrogen that keeps these freezers cool. Folks the facts are changing everyday. We now know things today that we didn’t know last week. My guess is there’s gonna be new facts out there a week for now from when I’m shooting this video. Here at Tittle and Perlmutter we are handling these cases, we are investigating every day, and we are getting to the bottom of what really happened. Let me let me talk for a moment on the class actions that have been filed, here at Tittle and Perlmutter we don’t feel that class actions are the best way to handle these cases, instead, each case will be handled on an individual basis. Its been my experience with my clients they who have been affected by this tragedy, that each one of them have very individual damages there is special only to them and I suspect that that’s how most cases are. So if you or a loved one has been affected by the tragedy through University Hospitals, have lost eggs and embryos through university hospitals, please give us a call or visit our website. Take care.

Hey folks, Allen Tittle here, Cleveland’s Medical Malpractice Lawyer. One of the biggest issues for potential causes of action that we see in medical malpractice cases has to do with misdiagnosis. Doctors must rule out or treat conditions that are the most life-threatening or most life-altering first. And when they don’t, patients can either die, become paralyzed, or lose a limb. A common example that we see in cases are cancer examples. So you have signs and symptoms of cancer, the doctor doesn’t act to treat or rule out, and then a year later that patient gets diagnoses with cancer and it’s no longer treatable. Other examples are much more short in a time frame. Things such as stroke, heart attack or a spine infection. These are conditions that are life-threatening or life-altering because it can cause paralysis permanently. If you or a loved one feel you are a victim of misdiagnosis, please give us a call or visit our website today.

One of the most common types of cases we see here in the office are cases involving sepsis. Now there’s really two types of cases involving sepsis. One, the failure to diagnose or a delay in diagnosing sepsis. Or two, a complete mismanagement of the condition. So folks, sepsis is very dangerous. It’s essentially blood poisoning. In other words, an infection has gotten into your bloodstream and it’s spreading throughout your body. Because of that, it’s very important that the condition is diagnosed timely and treated properly.

There’s really two things that we see here in the office that results, that can be caused, by a mismanagement of sepsis. Number one, because sepsis constricts the vessels, the arteries, constricts the blood flow to the limbs, because your blood pressure drops. And because of your blood pressure dropping, you then have to be put on pressers, which cause your blood pressure to increase. However, blood flow to the extremities is cut off. Folks, that leads to amputations. Your arms, your legs, might have to be chopped off if mismanaged. And because of that, I’ve seen cases where an individual had to have amputated both the legs and their arms as a result of these types of cases.

And obviously, if sepsis is really mismanaged, it can lead to death. Folks, if you or a loved one feel that sepsis was mismanaged, and as a result, your loved one or yourself had limbs amputated, or passed away please give us a call.

Folks, another type of case that we see a lot of times has to do with medication or prescription errors. The most common types of cases that we see are the wrong drug quantity; drug interactions with one another; when the medical provider knows that the patient has an allergy to the medicine yet still prescribes it. Those are the three most common that we see.

Some specific examples. There’s a drug by the name of Coumadin or Warfarin. It’s a very beneficial drug, because it prevents drug clots for those who have the heart condition called AFib. However, it can also be a very dangerous drug if not monitored properly. So, if you are on Coumadin or Warfarin, a doctor has to be monitoring that drug and your blood levels; meaning how thin or how thick your blood is in order to make sure that that drug is therapeutic. Otherwise there’s a big risk of you bleeding. And what I mean by that is, certainly if you fall and hit your head, you could have a brain bleed. But also just bleeding on its own. Again, a very dangerous drug but a very helpful drug that has to be monitored.

Another example that I saw in my own practice, had to do with a drug allergy. So in one specific type of case, a client of mine had to have some surgery. And she had an allergy to a specific class of drugs of anesthesia. She goes into the surgery, the drug allergy is in the system, but the anesthesiologist didn’t take the time to look at her drug allergy history. Gave her the drug. She had an anaphylactic reaction, anaphylactic shock. Oxygen was cut off to her brain and she suffered a brain injury as a result.

Folks, medication and prescription errors are very scary. And if you or a loved one has suffered an injury or death as a result of a medication or prescription error, please give us a call.

Folks, Allen Tittle here- Cleveland’s Medical Malpractice Lawyer. Another type of case that we see from time to time are surgical errors. Folks, there are simple rules that a doctor must follow when performing surgery. The most basic rule is that he or she must only cut when they know what they’re cutting! Unfortunately, that does not always happen. For example, I’ve had a case where an individual had to go in for gallbladder surgery. Unfortunately, the doctor cut through the wrong things- in this circumstance, something called the common bile duct, and rendered permanent, catastrophic injury to that patient because then that condition wasn’t discovered right away. Other types of things is the obvious, operating on the old body part. You go in for left knee surgery and they accidentally amputate your right. That happens more common than you think! But also, simple things like leaving instruments or sponges behind in the body after surgery. Folks, if you or a loved one has suffered medical malpractice as a result of a surgical error, please give me a call or visit my website today. Thank you, take care!

Allen Tittle, Cleveland’s Medical Malpractice Lawyer. I’ve discussed in the past that the third leading cause of death in America is Medical Malpractice. Let me repeat that. Right behind heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death is medical malpractice. This has to change. The most common types of medical malpractice that we see here in the office, and also, fortunately, studies have been done to show us what the most common medical malpractice claims are. In 2017, here in Ohio, 34% of medical malpractice claims had to do with Misdiagnosis, 24% had to do with surgical mistakes, 18% treatment mistakes, 10% birth injuries, 4% medication errors, 4% patient monitoring issues, and 6% other. Something has to be done to ensure that preventable deaths do not occur as a result of medical malpractice. One of the only ways that we can do that is through medical malpractice lawsuits. You folks that sit in that jury are the conscious of this community. If you or a loved one, or your father, your mother, husband, wife, feel that you are a victim of medical malpractice, please visit our website, give us a call, download our free E-Book. We have to do something to change this, and it starts with you. Take care.

Hey folks, Allen Tittle Cleveland’s Medical Malpractice lawyer here again. Another question we get is what is the statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims here in Ohio. The short answer is only one year, and so you have one year from the date of the malpractice to bring the lawsuit. Now there are some exceptions, the exceptions are its it can be one year from the date of when you discovered the medical malpractice, but you got to be careful with that exception. Because what the courts have said is that it’s not one year from when you actually discovered it but it’s one year from when you should have discovered it. The other exception is the termination of the physician-patient relationship relating to the condition that’s at issue. Say your doctor botched your surgery leading to your leg being amputated, then that doctor continued to treat you for that same condition aftercare, the follow-ups relating to that amputated leg. The one-year clock would start to tick when the doctor no longer treated you for that condition or your physician patient relationship was terminated. So I hope that answered your question about what is the statute of limitations here in Ohio. If you have any further questions please feel free to take a look at our website or give us a call. Thank you.

Hey folks, Allen Tittle here Cleveland’s Medical Malpractice lawyer. One question that we get from time to time here in the office and also during jury selection and a trial is, what is the difference between medical malpractice and medical negligence? The truth is they’re one of the same, there is no difference. This means that in order to be successful in a medical malpractice case, we have to show that the medical professional did not act as a reasonable prudent provider would under the same or similar circumstances. In other words did that medical professional break the rules that they must follow. If you feel that you have suffered an injury or a loved one to suffered an injury as a result of a doctor, nurse, anesthesiologist, breaking the rules, please give us a call or visit our website. I hope that provided some more information on the difference or lack thereof of medical malpractice and medical negligence. Take care.

“Allen Tittle here, Cleveland Medical Malpractice Lawyer. One of the most common questions we get is, “Allen, how do I know how to choose the best medical malpractice lawyer in Cleveland?” or “How do I know how to choose the top medical malpractice lawyer in the state of Ohio?” Well, first of all, there’s a few things that I would look for. But before I get into that, you need to know that, per our ethical rules, we cannot say that we specialize in medical malpractice. However, as a consumer, the first thing that I’d want to know is, as a lawyer, what is your focus? In other words, what is your practice focused on? Are you doing a divorce one day, a DUI the next, and then the third a personal injury case? OR, is your focus, in terms of your practice, on personal injury and medical malpractice cases? If it is, then that would be the first thing I would check off. The second thing I would ask is, “Have you actually went to trial in medical malpractice cases?” These cases rarely go to trial, but oftentimes, in order to hold that doctor or that hospital accountable, you need to hold their feet to the fire and go to a jury. So the second thing I would ask, “Have you actually tried medical malpractice cases?” The third thing that I would look for is, “Do you actually keep up with the latest trends of practice?” So, in other words, do you just sit back, you don’t learn the new tricks, OR are you innovative in your practice? Are you innovated in prosecuting these medical malpractice cases? Things like electronic medical records, audit trails, these things are always changing. You need to be up on the latest trends in medicine in order to successfully prosecute medical malpractice cases. And finally, I would take a look at past client reviews. Are former clients of that lawyer happy with what they got? And if they are, the next step is simply, do you connect with that lawyer? If you are going to hire a lawyer to prosecute a claim for the death of your wife, the death of your mother, you better feel comfortable with that person. I hope that gave some guidance on how to choose the best medical malpractice lawyer for you and your family. If you have any other questions, please visit our website or give us a call, (216)-230-7131. I’m Allen Tittle, Cleveland’s Medical Malpractice Lawyer. Take Care!”

Hey folks, Allen tittle here, Cleveland’s Medical Malpractice lawyer. Another question that we get time to time is, Allen how do you prove a medical malpractice case, how do you win these things? Well the answer is we first have to get doctors to come in and testify on our own behalf, so it could be one doctor, it could be a number of doctors. The other thing that we look at is medical literature, textbooks, guidelines, anything that we can get our hands on that is peer reviewed by other doctors. We use that to try to formulate what is the standard of care that doctors must follow, in other words what do doctors have to do in order to follow the rules that every single other doctor must follow. Once we have that established we’re able to determine whether or not the care in question followed those rules, and if not we’re able to prove the malpractice through the literature and also through our own experts. I hope that answered the question of how do you prove a medical malpractice case. If you have any further questions please visit our website or give us a call. Take care.

Hey folks, Allen Tittle here again Cleveland’s Medical Malpractice lawyer. Another question that we get from time to time is when do you file a medical malpractice lawsuit? That’s not an easy question to answer but what I’d like to sort of tell you folks is what our case criteria is for us to accept your case. So we get a lot of calls every single day, and we probably only accept two to three percent of the calls that we take. In order for our law firm to take your case one of the following things must have occurred: Unfortunately a loved one had passed away some type of paralysis, a loss of a limb, a brain injury, or some other type of catastrophic injury, such as leaving a surgical instrument in your body for a long period of time, that’s the best way that I can sort of answer is when should you file a medical malpractice lawsuit. So if you or a loved one have suffered any of those terrible things please give us a call or take a look at our website. Take care.

Process of a Medical Negligence Claim

Tittle & Perlmuter prosecutes these cases all throughout Ohio, including Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.  We treat each one of our cases with extreme care. You will never feel like “just a number” when you work with us. We have access to a network of medical experts who can weigh in and share the facts of your case. Let us do the work while you focus on healing.

At Tittle & Perlmuter, our Ohio medical malpractice lawyers only agree to take on the most serious malpractice cases. If we agree to accept your case, we do so with the confidence that your case is genuine and that you deserve compensation due to the negligence of a medical provider. Additionally, it means that we firmly believe that we can prove these facts at trial. In other words, when our firm accepts your case, it is because we are prepared. We are ready to investigate right away. Then, we will take your case to trial if the insurance company will not settle for a fair amount.

A Medical Malpractice Lawyers Can Help

We do not tolerate doctors or nurses who fail to follow the rules all others must follow, which is why we will fight hard for you to receive the justice and compensation you deserve. When you are ready to act, give us a call – it will cost you nothing to have your potential claim evaluated. We welcome the opportunity to hear your story.

For a free claim evaluation and consultation, call now or fill out our online contact form. We will respond promptly. We can arrange evening and weekend appointments, and we can come to you.

Don’t wait to act! A medical malpractice attorney has deep expertise, unshakable passion, and a record of success necessary to fight for you from the very first moment you decide to pick up the phone and call us, all the way to the best possible outcome we can earn. There is NO FEE if we don’t win, so call now!

How Hard is it to Prove a Medical Malpractice Case?

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Courts for Medical Malpractice Cases

1200 Ontario St., Cleveland, OH 44113

This court is located in the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland. The court advises you to allow for extra time to find parking because it is limited in the area. The Huntington Parking Garage is close but pricey for a day of parking. A more affordable option is the WareHouse District Parking closer to the Flats, but you’ll have to walk a few blocks. Another option to get to the court is to take the Rapid and avoid a downtown parking cost altogether. The hours of the court are Monday – Friday from 8:30 – 4:30. If you have any questions for the court, call 216-443-8560.

209 S. High St., Akron, OH 44308

The common pleas court for Summit County is located in the downtown Akron district, near the Akron Rubber Duck’s stadium. There are several parking lots and decks available around the area, with ticket pricing ranging from $1 – $6 depending on the location and how long you stay. An idea to keep in mind is that parking is not validated by the court. The court is open Monday – Friday from 8:00 – 4:00. For any questions or directions, give the court a call at 330-643-2162.

225 Court St., 6th & 7th Floors, Elyria, OH 44035

The Common Pleas Court for Lorain County is located in downtown Elyria in the Justice Center building. Clients who are going to the court for trial can find parking at the Washington Avenue Parking Lot nearby. Court hours are Monday – Friday from 8:00 – 4:00. If you have questions on how to find the facility or what you need to know before court, call the Justice Center at 440-329-5000.