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Personal Injury, Accidents and Malpractice

Personal Injury and Accidents: As individuals, we often take our physical and mental well-being for granted - until something goes wrong. When an accident happens a life can be forever changed. Simple pleasures become chores. Daily routines are disrupted. Economic losses are often devastating. Whether caused by an automobile accident, a defective product, medical malpractice, or other negligence, careless or reckless conduct, injuries alter lives forever. At Stevens, Littman, Biddison, Tharp & Weinberg in Boulder and Vail, Colorado, personal injury lawyers take responsibility for effective, aggressive investigation and representation, allowing the injured person to attend to health, family and economic issues, while the Firm pursues a variety of legal means to obtain the highest possible financial recovery, and to assure that your medical expenses and wage losses are paid.

The Firm provides free initial consultations on all personal injury/accident cases.

Professional Malpractice: No area of case preparation and litigation is more challenging than professional malpractice. Attorneys at the firm have handled professional malpractice cases both for the injured party and the professional accused of malpractice. Professional malpractice cases typically involve medical providers, such as physicians, hospitals, and nurses, dental providers and lawyers, but they may involve any profession, such as accountants, and architects. In general, most cases of medical malpractice that are tried before a jury result in verdicts in favor of the professional person. There are several reasons for this: (1) many times bad results are not caused by negligence on the part of the professional, (2) conduct is negligent only if it falls below that of other professionals in the same field or specialty, (3) obtaining good professional witnesses is often more difficult for the injured party, and finally, (4) preparation and trial of a medical malpractice case usually requires expensive commitment for medical expert witnesses and often there is a wide disparity between the costs an injured party can devote and those that the professional's insurance company is willing to spend.

While there may be professional malpractice attorneys who will take any malpractice case with the hope of getting some settlement for the potential disturbance factor, the attorneys of our Vail and Boulder law firm realize that an immense amount of hard work and expense may be risked representing the injured party. Professional malpractice cases are generally handled on a contingency basis, meaning that the malpractice attorney only gets paid if he or she is successful. Choosing good cases to pursue is also important to the client, since the client usually will invest substantial time and physical and emotional energy, as well as incur costs for expert opinions. Professional malpractice attorneys at our firm screen carefully for the following: (1) whether the professional was negligent (2) whether the negligence was a cause of the injury (3) whether the injuries are permanent or disabling (4) whether there is a likelihood of insurance recovery.

The firm's medical malpractice lawyers' practice is to first offer a brief discussion of the case by phone, then, followed by a free consultation in the office where merited. Preliminary history is taken. Thereafter, medical records and professional records are obtained and reviewed with qualified health care providers. If you and the lawyer determine that the case should be pursued, expert opinions will be obtained. It is important to know that even when the experts are of the opinion that malpractice has been committed, most cases go to trial.

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Contact Information:
Boulder office Phone: 303.443.6690, Facsimile: 303.449.9349
Vail office Phone: 970.479.9989, Facsimile: 970.447.0850