Professional Negligence
Virtually everyone hires a professional at some point. Unfortunately, professionals sometimes do not meet the standard of care in their profession - conduct equating to professional negligence or malpractice. If you’ve been seriously injured or damaged as a result of a professional’s negligent conduct, contact us today for a free consultation.
Our attorneys have developed handling techniques designed to maximize our clients’ recoveries professional negligence or malpractice cases.
By far the most common form of professional negligence is medical malpractice. A related form of professional negligence is nursing home negligence and elder abuse. Unfortunately, often times when medical professionals make mistakes the resulting injuries are catastrophic. By contrast, when lawyers or architects or brokers or other professionals make mistakes, the losses are usually monetary; sometimes huge financial losses. The number of ways that professionals can make mistakes is infinite. We specialize in analyzing and proving when professionals have acted negligently.
Maximizing damages - It isn’t enough to establish liability, the outcome of a client’s case also depends on proving the full extent of damages. We know how to find the best experts to maximize damages. In injury cases, this would involve medical experts who can not only diagnose and treat the most sophisticated injuries, but just as importantly can effectively communicate their findings. We work with economists (to establish the monetary losses of our clients), vocational rehabilitationists (to establish the impact of the injury on the client’s earnings capacity), life care planners (to establish future care needs and the costs involved) and a host of other types of damage experts, all geared to maximizing our client’s recoveries. Use of experts and creativity is especially important to demonstrate the full measure of damages in malpractice cases resulting in wrongful death.
Managing Partner Stephen D. Phillips, has been recently rated by Avvo.com as the top Personal Injury Lawyer in Illinois.
Mr. Phillips was also ranked by Avvo.com as the highest rated Birth Injury Lawyer, Brain Injury Lawyer, Medical Malpractice,
Wrongful Death and Trucking Accident Lawyer in Illinois.