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Birth Injuries in North Carolina

March 15, 2023 | AS Personal Injury Lawyers

Birth Injuries in North Carolina

The birth of a child is one of the most exciting times in a parent’s life. Under the best circumstances, you enter the hospital and leave the next day with your newborn infant to begin your new family life together. Unfortunately, sometimes birth does not go as you had hoped. A mistake made during the delivery process could result in a birth injury to your child. Some birth injuries may be minor, but some are more serious and could even cause a lifelong disability. If your child suffered an injury during labor or delivery, you could be owed money for damages.

Common Birth Injuries

New Court Ruling Allows Nurses to Be Held Accountable in Personal Injury Claims

September 28, 2022 | AS Personal Injury Lawyers

Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “What can you sue for in a personal injury case?”

New Court Ruling Allows Nurses to Be Held Accountable in Personal Injury Claims

Determining Medical Malpractice in North Carolina

June 5, 2019 | AS Personal Injury Lawyers

Charlotte Injury Lawyer Matt Arnold answers the question: “What is Maximum Medical Improvement and how does it effect my claim?”

When we seek the advice of a medical professional, we are trusting them with one of the most important things to us — our health and well-being. Putting your life literally into someone else’s hands takes a lot of trust. That is why it is difficult when healthcare providers do not do their duty and injuries or illnesses are made worse. Mistakes happen, but when mistakes are made with medical care, there can be life-altering consequences. When healthcare providers are negligent in their care, a legal remedy to those affected is a medical malpractice lawsuit. You have probably heard this term before, medical malpractice, but it can be difficult to determine what exactly constitutes medical malpractice. Additional resources related to personal injury can be found here.

Medication Mistakes All Too Common According To Recent Study

January 12, 2016 | AS Personal Injury Lawyers

Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matthew R. Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Do I have to sign a release allowing the insurance company to get my medical records?”

Everyone has heard horror stories of what can go wrong in surgeries. These tales often involve scalpels or bandages left behind inside a patient’s body or amputation of the wrong appendage. Though these mistakes are gruesome and terrible, they’re also fairly rare occurrences. Though medication errors may not be nearly as attention getting as some of the more extreme examples of medical malpractice, experts say they present a far greater danger to patients, occurring with alarming regularity and potentially causing serious damage when the mistakes do occur.