Emergency rooms are high-volume, high-pressure environments where mistakes can be deadly. Missed strokes, missed heart attacks, missed sepsis, missed infections, mis-triage of serious symptoms, premature discharges, and medication errors are all ER malpractice. The injury is often catastrophic because the very thing the ER was supposed to catch — heart attack, stroke, internal bleeding — progresses untreated.
Madison Law Firm PLLC · 579 5th Ave, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10017
We pull the full ER chart, triage notes, all imaging, lab results, nurse's notes, and discharge instructions. We also get billing records, which sometimes show what tests were ordered but never run.
We work with ER physicians and specialists who review the chart and tell us what should have been done. Most missed-stroke and missed-heart-attack cases turn on whether the ER ordered the right imaging or labs in the available window — and what they did with the results.
ER error cases often involve catastrophic outcomes — paralysis from missed stroke, permanent heart damage from missed heart attack, amputation from missed sepsis. We work with life-care planners to quantify lifetime medical, rehabilitation, and lost-earning damages.
Every case is different. The recoverable damages depend on your injuries, the insurance available, and the facts of your case.
Most NYC hospitals contract their ER staffing to outside companies (TeamHealth, US Acute Care Solutions, etc.). That affects who can be sued and which insurance policies pay. We map out the contractor chain in every case.
If your ER error happened at NYC Health + Hospitals (Bellevue, Elmhurst, Kings County, Lincoln, etc.) or a SUNY hospital, you have just 90 days to file a notice of claim. The clock starts the day of the error — not the day you found out about it.
Many ER cases are about what was sent home — chest pain sent home as 'anxiety' that was an MI; severe headache sent home as 'migraine' that was a bleed. We focus on the discharge decision, the discharge instructions, and whether the patient was given proper follow-up.
We answer 24/7. Free consultation. No fee unless we win.