Professional Malpractice

New Jersey Professional Malpractice Lawyer

When a person's carelessness or negligence causes harm, such as when a driver violates the rules of the road and causes an accident, that person may be required to compensate the victim for his conduct. The same holds true for professionals, such as such as doctors, nurses, nursing home employees and professionals who provide specialized services to individuals. These professions have rules, called standards of practice or standards of care, which these professionals are expected to follow. When the professional disregards these standards, causing injury, his or her negligence is referred to as malpractice.

My firm, the Law Offices of Francis M. Smith, Esq., represents victims of professional malpractice. Whether your doctor failed to diagnose your cancer, a surgeon performed unnecessary or unsuccessful surgery, a nurse gave you the wrong medication, or another failed to observe their standards of care or standards of practice, you may be are entitled to compensation for the harm you have suffered.

In order to prove negligence in your professional malpractice case, the standards of practice applicable to a particular profession must be determined in order to establishing that a breach of these standards has caused you injury. This is a complicated process that requires the services of an experienced New Jersey professional malpractice attorney in conjunction with experts who define the standard of care and delineate deviations from the applicable standard. My firm maintains offices in Westfield, Clinton, Morristown, and Newton, and serves clients in Warren, Essex, Scotch Plains, Union County, Somerset County and throughout New Jersey.

If you believe you may be the victim of professional malpractice, contact me at the Law Offices of Francis M. Smith, Esq. for a free initial consultation.