When patients seek medical care, they deserve treatment that meets or exceeds the standard of care for the medical profession. Unfortunately, in many cases just the opposite occurs.

Because of human error, as well as systemic problems, there have been reports of increasing numbers of people maimed or killed each year by medical errors, exceeding those hurt in workplace injuries.

Medical malpractice occurs when a doctor or other health care provider deviates from the standard of care. This means that they did not provide the type of care that other members of the profession would have under the same or similar circumstances.

Christopher Patrick Ford has years of experience representing patients and their family members in cases arising from medical malpractice. Because of our zealous representation, we have obtained substantial recoveries on behalf of those who have been catastrophically injured or killed due to medical errors.

Mr. Ford has handled cases involving infants who have sustained birth injuries, specifically Cerebral Palsy and Erb's Palsy, as well as patients whose physicians have failed to diagnose and properly treat cancer.

Mr. Ford has obtained successful verdicts against hospitals and doctors in a variety of contexts including:

• $17.5 million dollars in a medical malpractice case for 33 year old man who suffered strokes in his brain and spine after open heart surgery, resulting in tetraplegia.
• $5.2 million dollars in a medical malpractice case for a man who lost his leg due to the failure to diagnose appendicitis, leading to sepsis and arterial clot in the leg.
• $4.75 million dollars in a medical malpractice case for a man who sustained paraplegia due to medical care provider's failure to diagnose a spinal infection.

In addition to verdicts, Mr. Ford has obtained substantial settlements in a variety of medical malpractice cases including:

• $4.5 million dollars in a cancer treatment malpractice case resulting in a forequarter amputation.
• $2.75 million dollars in an emergency room malpractice case involving the failure to diagnose a coronary artery dissection resulting in the death of a mother.
• $1.85 million for a 74 year old man who had neck surgery to cure numbness in his hands, and became a incomplete quadriplegic due to a post-surgical infection.