Mechanicsville medical malpractice lawyers

Mechanicsville Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Experienced representation for patients and families when doctors and other healthcare providers cause injuries due to negligent care

Doctors, hospitals, and other medical providers have a duty to provide competent medical care – medical care according to the standards for their type of medical practice. At Phelan Petty Injury Lawyers, we hold medical professionals accountable when they fail to properly diagnose your health condition, perform surgeries incompetently, provide the wrong medications and treatments, and make other medical mistakes.

Our Mechanicsville medical malpractice lawyers work with medical professionals who understand why medical malpractice caused your injuries or took the life of a loved one. We seek compensation to maximize your recovery and pay for the damage medical mistakes cause. Contact us today to get started.

Our medical malpractice results

While we cannot guarantee results, we have obtained many strong recoveries for our clients in medical malpractice cases. Some of these recoveries include the following:

  • $3.5 Million. We obtained this sum for a client when a radiologist misread a patient’s X-rays after a car accident. The radiologist missed an obvious and treatable bowel injury.
  • $3 Million. We secured this recovery in a birth injury case resulting in cerebral palsy.
  • $3 Million. We obtained a jury verdict for hospital negligence that led to the death of a 37-week-old baby. The mother was negligently discharged, her medical history was ignored, and in the end, her uterus ruptured, leading to the death of her son.
  • $2.4 Million. Our firm obtained a medical malpractice verdict against an orthopedic surgeon who failed to properly order diagnostic testing and emergency surgery for a patient with a tibial plateau fracture and dislocated knee. The patient suffered life-threatening complications that resulted in 46 days of hospitalization, more than 20 surgeries, and a functionally useless leg that is likely to require either multiple knee replacements or above-the-knee amputation in the future.

Past results do not guarantee or predict future outcomes. Every case is different.

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Our Case Results

$3.75 Million
Wrongful Death Settlement - Swimming pool drowning
$3.5 Million
Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict - Misread x-ray led to failure to diagnose bowel injury

How can we help?

What is medical malpractice?

Each type of healthcare provider (specialists, family doctors, hospitals, anesthesiologists, nurses, physical therapists, pharmacists, radiologists, and other medical professionals) has specific standards they must meet for their type of medical practice. Patients can file a personal injury case for medical malpractice if the following conditions apply:

  • There was a doctor/patient relationship.
  • The medical provider breached the duty of care (to act competently according to the medical standards for their type of practice) owed to a patient.
  • The breach of care caused a preventable injury.
  • The injury caused physical, financial, or emotional harm.

Medical malpractice can include active negligence (doing something improperly, such as prescribing the wrong medication) or passive negligence (failing to do something, such as failing to make a correct diagnosis).

At Phelan Petty Injury Lawyers, we work with medical professionals in the same or similar specialties who understand the applicable standard of care and who can help show that medical malpractice occurred. Medical malpractice is essentially negligent medical care.

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What types of medical malpractice cases do your lawyers handle in Mechanicsville?

Our Mechanicsville medical malpractice lawyers represent patients who suffer medical malpractice and families who suffer death due to medical malpractice. We have the working relationships to handle the following types of medical malpractice claims:

  • Amputation injuries
  • Anesthesia and pain management mistakes
  • Birth injuries, including cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy, stillbirth, and fetal death
  • Brain injuries
  • Bariatric surgery complications
  • Bladder and bowel injuries
  • Bile duct injuries during gallbladder surgery
  • Diagnosis mistakes (improper and/or delays in diagnosis)
  • Emergency room mistakes
  • Hospital-acquired infections/ sepsis claims
  • Medication mistakes
  • Radiology negligence
  • Surgical mistakes
  • Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital, subject to federal law and special procedural rules
  • The need for corrective surgeries and/or treatments due to medical malpractice
  • Diseases and disorders that cannot be treated due to medical mistakes, which could otherwise have been treated
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What are the causes of medical malpractice?

Some of the many causes of medical malpractice include:

  • Communication errors
  • Lack of proper training, education, and licenses
  • Failure to obtain a full medical history
  • Failure to conduct a complete medical examination
  • Failure to order the correct diagnostic tests
  • Failure to follow acceptable medical standards
  • Failure to anticipate complications
  • Failure to prescribe or properly administer medications
  • Not properly monitoring a patient
  • Negligent hiring and medical credentialing practices
  • Many other types of medical mistakes
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Who is liable for medical malpractice in Mechanicsville?

At Phelan Petty Injury Lawyers, we can hold the healthcare providers responsible for your injuries, health disorders, diseases, other types of harm, or death. The responsible healthcare providers may include one or more of the following:

  • Hospitals
  • Specialists, such as obstetricians, orthopedists, oncologists, and cardiologists
  • Surgeons and ambulatory surgery centers
  • Family doctors
  • Anesthesiologists
  • Pain management doctors
  • Nurses
  • Lab technicians
  • Midwives
  • Pharmacists
  • Long-term care facilities, including nursing homes
  • Other healthcare providers

Some of the local hospitals in Mechanicsville and Richmond, according to Healthgrades, include the following:

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How do your Mechanicsville medical malpractice lawyers advocate for injured patients and families?

At Phelan Petty Injury Lawyers, we have 20 years of experience representing medical malpractice victims in Virginia. We treat our clients like family, which means we want to know about your needs, hopes, abilities, frustrations, and concerns. Our seasoned medical malpractice lawyers:

  • Work with medical experts who can help show that you meet the criteria for a medical malpractice claim (a duty of care, a breach of that duty based on failing to comply with acceptable medical standards, and injuries due to the breach).
  • Work with medical experts who help identify what health disorders are preventable, what corrective treatments may be available, what complications may arise, and how the malpractice is affecting your daily life.
  • Conduct discovery. This means we can formally question (in writing and in person) the healthcare providers who failed to provide you with competent medical care. We can review what actions the health providers took, what steps they failed to take, and why their actions were negligent.
  • Prepare formal demands for compensation, which include verification of your financial losses and assertions regarding your physical and emotional trauma. This verification may include bills and estimates from health care providers, your employer, life planners, financial professionals, and other experts.
  • Negotiate with health care providers and their insurance companies. Many settlement negotiations include back-and-forth offers and counter-offers until there is a settlement or until it’s clear that a jury must decide your case.
  • Present your case before a judge and jury. This presentation includes jury selection, your testimony, the testimony of expert witnesses, questioning the witnesses and experts for the defendants, introducing documents, and arguing your case before the jury.

The head of our medical malpractice department is Jonathan Petty. His prior experience includes representation of doctors and hospitals, which means he understands what arguments and defenses the defendants are likely to assert.

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What is the value of a medical malpractice case in Virginia?

While each patient or family’s case is different, our Mechanicsville medical malpractice lawyers usually request the following compensation for your past, current, and future damages:

  • Medical bills. These include emergency room care, hospitalizations, surgeries (including corrective surgeries), doctor visits, rehabilitative therapy, medications, and assistive help.
  • Medical review. This expense includes the cost to hire medical professionals who can review your medical care and provide reports and testimony about medical malpractice.
  • Lost income. This amount includes lost wages, benefits, and business income for as long as you cannot work.
  • Pain and suffering. We can seek compensation for all your physical pain and emotional trauma for every day you suffer.
  • Additional damages. We can also seek compensation for any scarring and disfigurement, loss of bodily function, inability to enjoy life’s pleasures, and loss of consortium.

If medical malpractice causes the death of a loved one, we can seek wrongful death damages. These damages include:

  • The funeral and burial expenses.
  • The financial support your loved one would have provided the members of the family.
  • The loss of comfort, companionship, education, and love that your loved one would have provided to the members of the family.
  • The value of the services your loved one would have provided.
  • Any outstanding medical costs.

Virginia law caps total damages in medical malpractice cases. For injuries occurring between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, the cap is $2.70 million, regardless of the number of defendants or theories of liability.

We may seek punitive damages in cases involving willful or reckless disregard for patient safety, subject to Virginia’s $350,000 statutory cap on punitive damages.

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How much time do injured patients have to file a medical malpractice claim in Virginia?

In Virginia, patients have two years from the date of the malpractice to file a personal injury claim. The time limit for wrongful death claims is two years from the date of death. We can explain what exceptions may apply if a foreign object is left inside a patient, cases of intentional misrepresentation or fraud, or other conditions apply.

We recommend that patients and families contact us as quickly as possible so that we can help them obtain a prompt, competent medical review.

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Do you have a Mechanicsville medical malpractice lawyer near me?

Yes. We can meet with patients and families at our nearby Richmond office, located at 3315 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23230. Our medical malpractice lawyers also consult with new clients by phone and through online video. If your health prevents you from traveling to our office, we can make arrangements to meet you at your home or another location.

We can answer your questions and guide you calmly and clearly through the claims process.

Get help from our accomplished Mechanicsville medical malpractice lawyers today

We understand how upset you are. You thought medical care would improve your health, and now you are in more pain than before you sought help. At Phelan Petty Injury Lawyers, we can hold negligent doctors and other healthcare providers accountable for medical malpractice.

Get in touch with our Mechanicsville medical malpractice attorneys today or complete our contact form to schedule a free consultation. We represent medical malpractice victims in Virginia on a contingency fee basis. We serve clients throughout Virginia.