Medical Malpractice

Until you have been involved in a medical negligence suit, you probably will not appreciate how time consuming, expensive, and difficult they usually are. This is intended only as the most general overview of what these suits entail and is based generally on the laws and procedures in Pennsylvania, where the authors practice.

Medical Malpractice Discovery

The “discovery” stage is then underway. The three primary discovery (investigatory) methods are requests for documents, interrogatories (written questions requiring written responses under oath), and depositions (oral questions offered by the parties’ attorneys before a court reporter). The first and last are probably the most important. Full and complete records lay the groundwork for a case, and depositions often are not fully prepared for by the deponent and allow best for “truth testing.”