Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Trials
Massachusetts and Boston's surrounding suburbs are a difficult place for medical malpractice claims. Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly recently reviewed every medical malpractice case tried in Massachusetts Superior Court's in 2009. The end result showed how difficult it is to win your case against a Boston or Massachusetts area hospital or doctor. The experienced personal injury attorneys at the Boston Law Office of Neil Burns know first-hand how difficult it is to win at trial. "The survey done by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly simply demonstrates what we know firsthand," says Boston personal injury attorney Neil Burns.
The survey is sobering. There are 10 counties in Massachusetts, and Barnstable County (encompassing Cape Cod and the Islands) has returned the highest percentage of medical malpractice verdicts at 25%. Half of the counties in the survey did not return a single plaintiff's verdict for all of 2009. As stated in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly following their survey, "it was nearly impossible to win medical-malpractice claims."
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