If your family lost a loved one to COVID-19, a wrongful death attorney can help you seek justice for medical malpractice.
Here are some of the things you can do to help your wrongful death attorney hold the medical professionals who let your loved one down accountable.
Misdiagnosis
When COVID-19 swept spread around the globe, it exposed significant flaws in our health care infrastructure and gaps in our medical practices. In many cases, patients suffered because their COVID-19 symptoms were misdiagnosed as the flu or the common cold.
Timeline:
A wrongful death attorney may be able to file a medical malpractice lawsuit against a health care provider for initially misdiagnosing COVID-19. In order to build their case, however, they will need help constructing a definitive timeline between the symptoms, the misdiagnosis, and the passing of your loved one. If you communicated with your loved one when they first suspected they had contracted COVID-19 and/or you can obtain communications they had with other individuals from their phone, gather them and turn them over to your wrongful death attorney. The same goes for emails, letters, or other forms of communications you can find that help pinpoint the exact date they began to feel symptoms. After clearly establishing this date, your wrongful death attorney can work forward to the fateful day when your loved one lost their battle with COVID-19.
Charts:
Granting access to your loved one's medical charts will be very important. Depending on where you live, you might need to file specific paperwork to grant access to your loved one's medical charts to your wrongful death attorney. This access should include all records held by both the healthcare provider and the health insurance company. Not only will your wrongful death attorney attempt to show when the misdiagnosis occurred but they construct a health history that helps prove that your loved one might have survived if they had received a proper diagnosis.
Pain and Suffering
One of the most tragic aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic was that many victims died in complete isolation without having the chance to say goodbye to loved ones. Your wrongful death attorney can seek damages for the pain and suffering your loved one endured before they passed away.
Last Words:
What were the last words you heard from your loved one? If your wrongful death attorney can show that they felt scared, confused, isolated, or alone, your case for pain suffering will be virtually assured.
For more information, contact a local wrongful death attorney.
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