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Wallace Wason, PLLC — Malpractice and Personal Injury Lawyers in VA, MD and Our Nation’s Capital Fighting to Secure Justice for Our Clients
If you or someone you love has been injured by a dentist, oral surgeon, doctor, surgeon, nurse or other healthcare professional, or you have losses due to a legal malpractice issue, you need a lawyer well versed in malpractice to evaluate your claims and to fight for you to win maximum compensation and justice for your suffering.
Wallace Wason, PLLC and our dedicated legal team have spent decades helping victims get justice for their injuries. We have offices conveniently located in old town Alexandria, VA directly across from the courthouse but we are not limited to filing cases in Virginia alone.
Malpractice Practitioners in Multiple Jurisdictions
We are well versed in dental malpractice, medical malpractice, legal malpractice and personal injury cases in Virginia and neighboring states and jurisdictions and we provide a no obligation case assessment to help you decide if a legal approach is right for you.
Give us a call at our Alexandria, VA offices to find out if you have a valid case in any of the locations we serve including Virginia, Maryland and D.C.
How May We Help You?
Do You Have a Valid Medical Malpractice Case?
Medical malpractice cases are a bit different from typical personal injury claims. Rather than having to establish a duty of care — a necessity in personal injury cases — medical malpractice claims must first establish that a doctor-patient relationship exists. This relationship in itself establishes a duty of care on the part of the medical practitioner. It’s also necessary to show that a healthcare provider failed to uphold an appropriate standard of care toward the patient. This means that they engaged in actions that are not considered standard in the broader medical community.
What many people fail to realize is that not all negative outcomes constitute negligence. There are times when bad things can happen, even when a healthcare professional does everything by the book. This element can make medical malpractice cases very complicated, and it is a major reason that victims should have an experienced medical malpractice attorney rather than a more general practitioner. For instance, what if someone dies after surgery? Was it because their disease was too far along already, or did serious surgical mistakes – such as wrong side surgery – occur during the procedure? While never events like this should happen very rarely, if at all, they sometimes do, leaving everyone involved trying to figure out what happened. This complexity is why Virginia requires a third-party expert certification for most malpractice claims.
An attorney at Wallace Wason, PLLC, may be able to help you with this and more. Whether you’re suffering due to a medication error that caused severe side effects or a missed diagnosis that kept you from getting the proper treatment, we will work hard to ensure you can afford the medical care you now need. Contact us today to get started on your medical malpractice case.
We are Well Versed in Dental, Medical and Legal Malpractice
We can help you decide if a malpractice lawsuit is the right response to your injury, whether your injury or loss is due to the professional negligence, neglect or malpractice of healthcare workers, or due to inaction on the part of an attorney. Our skilled and practiced intake team can handle your call and provide a free no obligation case evaluation when you contact us today.
Examples of the types of injuries and losses that lead to viable malpractice lawsuits:
- Dental nerve injury caused by dental procedures or negligence
- Lingual nerve or Inferior Alveolar nerve injury due to surgical error
- Orthodontic malpractice leading to root resorption and loss of teeth
- Medication errors causing illness, injury or death
- Birth injuries causing permanent disability or death
- Loss of normal dental function after dental restorations
- Loss of mobility or function due to surgical or other medical error
- Failure to diagnose, or delayed diagnosis of, cancer
- Financial loss due to a lawyer’s failure to meet filing deadlines.
Our attorneys are proficient in what it takes to vigorously pursue the awards that are due for medical injuries, dental injuries, losses due to legal malpractice. Whether you yourself or a family member has suffered such a loss or injury, it’s imperative to hold accountable those who are negligent, especially when they fail in their fields of specialty or expertise.
Personal Injury and Accident Attorneys
Wallace Wason, PLLC handles personal injury cases that result in catastrophic injury or in wrongful death. Some examples of personal injuries that result in viable lawsuits in Virginia and surrounding areas include:
- Multi-car and semi or heavy truck accidents
- Public hazards causing catastrophic injury
- Slip and fall accidents causing traumatic brain injury.
Contact Wallace Wason, PLLC today to talk with our intake team to start your personal injury case evaluation at no charge.
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Read MoreImportant Information for Family Members of Victims
It’s an unfortunate truth, but not every victim of healthcare negligence will be able to file a medical malpractice claim, even though such errors remain one of the leading instances of death in America.
If you’ve lost a loved one to birth injuries, anesthesia errors, or surgery for a medical condition, you may be entitled to seek compensation and justice on their behalf. However, Virginia requires that a personal representative of the estate file on behalf of the deceased person’s heirs. If no will was left specifying an executor, a friend or family member might be appointed to this position by the court.
If this claim results in compensation, the money will not go to the personal representative unless they’re a member of the family. And even in those instances, only specific parties would be entitled to financial recovery. These family members may include spouses, children, parents, siblings, or other relatives if the aforementioned parties are not available. It’s also worth noting that the wrongful death statute of limitations in Virginia is two years. Pay attention to this deadline if you’re even considering getting legal help. It doesn’t matter if a wrong side surgery or medication error led to death; failing to file within two years of your loved one’s death could remove your right to compensation.
To learn more about how medical malpractice attorneys can guide you through your legal claim to get the compensation you deserve, call our law offices at 703-420-3725. Our skilled, compassionate lawyers can help you recover damages after a medication error, wrong side surgery, missed diagnosis, or other major mistake injured you.
