Clinical Negligence, Health Care and Health Law
As courts expand the concept of “professional responsibility”, so grows the span of our experience. No professional relishes the prospect of a claim being made against them, most of all medical and health care practitioners.
We work to resolve matters on the best possible terms for all stakeholders.
Lawson Smith expertly advises in clinical negligence, health care, and health law matters having successfully acted and resolved disputes and claims involving:
- general medical practitioners, specialist physicians and surgeons
- allied health professionals and physiotherapists
- chiropractors
- dentists
- hospitals
- pharmacists
- psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists
- veterinarians
Lawson Smith has developed outcomes and delivered results:
- in obstetrics cases
- faced with allegations of practitioner negligence
- in professional misconduct and breaches of ethics
- for missed diagnoses, late diagnoses, and wrong diagnoses
- involving informed consent
- on failure to warn issues
- where there are boundary violations
- for breaches of patient confidentiality and privacy
- in claims arising from adverse outcomes
- for cosmetic surgery and scarring
- related to drugs and drug reactions
- where equipment malfunction has been an issue
- for pathology failures and errors
- relating to prescription errors
- for psychiatric injuries
- involving surgical and treatment mishaps
- for surgical complications and adverse drug reactions
- arising from system failures
- involving threats, intimidation, and bullying by health care practitioners
- where improper or corrupt conduct of health personnel is alleged