Who Can I Sue for Medical Malpractice in California?

When you visit a doctor's office, any number of things can go wrong. Depending on the reason for your visit, you may be seen by a nurse, a doctor, a specialist, and even clerical staff. If, after your visit, you discover that something very wrong happened to you as a result of the care you received during your doctor visit. Any one of the people involved in your visit may have played a role in your medical problems. Their supervisors or even the hospital may be attributed with some responsibility for your medical problems.

It is extremely difficult to determine at the outset exactly what went wrong. Commonly, more than one individual or organization will have been at least partly at fault for the harms you are suffering. For this reason, California has a law called "joint and several liability." This means that you can sue each and every party that was even partly responsible for your suffering, and that each of those parties are responsible to compensate you to the fullest extent of your economic damages. Another way of putting it is that each of those people are responsible individually and as a group for compensating you for your losses.

If you feel you have suffered at the hands of a doctor or any medical staff in California, you should immediately contact a California medical malpractice lawyer. Your lawyer will be able to give you a better idea of who you can sue to recover for your losses. Click on the California link to your left to find a qualified and experienced medical malpractice lawyer in California.