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Try having a child that has brain damage because of medical malpractice. What do you think of your $2500 cap?

I know I have a child with a medical malpractice potential suit. We can't even find a lawyer because they say it isn't worth it. After you pay the lawyers, there isn't much left.

It sucks, and my daughter is the one who is going to suffer. Everyone agrees that the doctors screwed up, but no one (except us) wants to help her. If insurance covers occupational therapy, speech therapy, phsysical therapy, it's limited. If the school cover occupational therapy or speech therapy, it's limited.

No one pays for tutors to help. No one is going to pay for her when she can't get a job.

It sucks!!!!!!!!!!!! Her doctor's were lazy. She was 6 weeks old, and all they had to do was put her in the hospital and run some tests. She was vomiting, and the nurse praticioner just sent us home with sugar water because they were out of pedialyte. This caused her electrolytes to get imbalanced, along with some other mistakes and she has permanent brain damage.

Some lawsuits are frivolous, and some aren't. An adult getting burned by hot coffee is frivolous. A baby getting brain damage from a lazy doctor is not.

We can't even find a lawyer because they say it isn't worth it

If the sad case of your child is malpractice then there should be economic loss of a lifetime of at least average earnings which would be a whole lot of money and certainly enough for an attorney to take the case.

There must be more to the story if no attorney will take it.

Whatever the facts, I am sorry for you and your child.

The proposed cap is for non-economic damages. The case you outline seems to be for economic damages, namely the huge cost of care you will incur in helping your daughter live a normal life. I wish you and yours the best and you will be in my prayers.

Hmmm.....if no lawyer is willing to take the case, then I have to say you probably don't have a good one.

I am an attorney and just got done with a stint with a plaintiff's firm--if there's ANY way to get almost anything they will. I am wondering about proof issues, etc?

An adult getting burned by hot coffee is frivolous. A baby getting brain damage from a lazy doctor is not.
I couldn't agree more. I detest useless litigation and all the money it costs all of us but I have mixed emotions on this one. Especially after hearing about your little girl. I wish you luck finding a lawyer who CARES about his clients. Pray for strength for yourself and your child.

I sincerely hope you are not posting a tragic bogus story to prove a point.
I have never heard of a doctor's office giving out sugar water. Pedialyte can be purchased in any grocery or drug store without a prescription. If a parent knows what pedialyte is I would assume that they would purchase it themselves if they were advised that none was available at the doctors office. If a doctors office was not correctly treating a vomiting child a trip to the emergency ward at a near by hospital would be the next course of action for most parents.
I'm sorry but you story does not ring true.

First they need to hold doctors and nurses, legally responsible. If they are proven negligent, send them to jail. If it is a probable accident, then insurance should kick in to take care of the consequences. Whatever happened to less Fedgov? Now we will have more laws passed down from on high. The opposite of conservatives stated beliefs.