Faraci Lange's Stephen Schwarz and Elizabeth Zorn recently co-published the following article in the Summer 2016 issue of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants' Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting about the screening process of medical malpractice cases.
Plaintiff firms, such as Faraci Lange, must recognize medical malpractice cases that are likely to fall short on liability, causation, or damages, as these claims are difficult and time consuming to pursue.
Experienced medical malpractice attorneys reject most medical malpractice inquiries. Although there is no central repository of statistics, at our firm we reject 90 to 95% of all potential malpractice cases because we don't believe there was any negligence or don't believe we can prove it.