Why Hire Us?

• We care about our clients and put their needs above our own.
• We are effective both in negotiations and during trial.
• Our attorneys are Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) — an honor held by only 3% of attorneys in the country. Board certification requires rigorous qualifications demonstrating expertise and the passing of a 6-hour exam.
• Our team includes members of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), having secured over 20 verdicts and meeting rigorous qualifications.
• We are members of the prestigious Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum — membership limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements, representing fewer than 1% of U.S. lawyers.
• Our attorneys have been recognized as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers multiple consecutive years.
• We have been named among America’s Top 100 Attorneys through a rigorous multi-phase selection process evaluating professional achievements and significant results.
• Our attorneys have been recognized by the National Trial Lawyers as a Top 25 Medical Malpractice Attorney in Pennsylvania — a distinction directly relevant to your case.
• We have achieved numerous settlements featured in the Top PA Verdicts and Settlements, including years 2012, 2013, 2016, and 2019.
• We are admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Federal District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
• We are often featured by media outlets for our legal insight and case results.

• Misdiagnosis occurs when the symptoms from which a patient suffers are mistaken for symptoms of a condition, illness or disease that the patient does not have. Delayed diagnosis occurs when a correct diagnosis is eventually made, but not as promptly as the diagnosis would have been made by a reasonably skilled physician under the same circumstances. A delayed diagnosis can cause a disease to progress or spread. Failure to treat occurs when there is a diagnosis, but the physician’s course of care does not meet currently accepted medical standards.
• Childbirth injuries include systemic damages to a newborn infant that occur when mistakes are made while delivering a baby. Injuries to newborns can also arise from improper prenatal care.
  Anesthesia errors occur when an anesthesiologist administers the incorrect amount of anesthetic or an anesthetic to which a patient has a known allergy. This type of negligence can result in serious health complications, including brain damage, cardiac injuries, and death.
• Medication errors include injuries sustained when a doctor prescribes a medication to which a patient has a known allergy, causing the patient to suffer an adverse reaction. Prescribing medication that can harm a fetus is negligent when the doctor fails to diagnose a pregnancy before prescribing the medication. Medication errors in hospitals and clinics occur when staff members mistakenly administer a drug that is not the prescribed medication.

• Surgical errors include preventable mistakes during surgery. Mistakenly cutting an artery and damaging a vital organ can lead to a patient’s wrongful death. Leaving sponges or surgical instruments inside the patient can lead to infections and additional surgery.
• Informed consent errors occur when a physician treats a patient without the patient’s knowledge and consent. Except under limited circumstances, doctors commit malpractice when they provide treatment without discussing its risks and benefits and thereafter obtaining the patient’s consent.
• Breach of physician/patient confidentiality can give rise to a civil remedy under certain circumstances. Pennsylvania recognizes the existence of a physician-patient privilege and a psychotherapist-patient privilege. Federal law also protects the privacy of certain healthcare records.
• Wrongful death claims result from medical negligence that causes a patient’s death. When a patient dies from a preventable infection, from an error made during an operation, or from a failure to diagnose and treat a fatal condition when prompt treatment would have prolonged the patient’s life, a wrongful death claim can be based on medical malpractice.

• Brain damage resulting from a lack of oxygen to the brain can result from medical negligence during childbirth or from the incorrect administration of anesthesia during surgical procedures.
• Infection is one of the most common injuries caused by medical negligence. Improperly sterilized instruments and the failure to follow infection-control procedures in hospitals are leading causes of death for hospitalized patients.
• Amputation can result from bloodstream infections when hospitals fail to sterilize catheters or other medical instruments and when physicians fail to diagnose or treat infections.
• Foreign objects left inside a patient during surgery require another invasive medical procedure even if they do not lead to a life-threatening infection.

• Wrongful death can be caused by surgical errors, misdiagnoses, mistakes during childbirth, medication errors, and other acts of medical negligence.
• Burns are among the most painful injuries that result from medical malpractice. They include laser burns, radiation burns, chemical burns, electrical burns and thermal burns.
• Childbirth injuries can be fatal. Babies that survive acts of negligent delivery may suffer from broken bones, cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy, nerve damage, brain injuries, and spinal damage.

• Failure to diagnose a disease or complication or a delay in diagnosis due to inattention, the failure to take a complete medical history, inadequate training, the failure to consult with an appropriate specialist, or pressure by insurance companies that do not want to pay for necessary diagnostic tests.
• Failure to provide adequate treatment of a medical condition or disease due to lack of awareness of state-of-the-art treatment or a rush to treat too many patients.
• Failure to prescribe the proper medication resulting from neglect to take a full medical history or to perform tests that would reveal medication allergies.

• Medication dosage errors caused by fatigue or inattention.
• Surgical errors caused by fatigue or pressure to rush through the operation in order to keep on schedule.
• Inappropriate abandonment of a patient resulting from poor record-keeping or payment disputes with insurers.
• Failure to obtain informed consent due to concerns that the patient will not follow the doctor’s advice if fully warned of all risks.

If you believe that you or a loved one has been harmed by medical malpractice anywhere in the Northeast PA area, it is important that you do not hesitate to contact an experienced medical malpractice lawyer from Anzalone & Doyle Trial Lawyers. Medical malpractice cases are among the most complex areas of personal injury law, requiring extensive knowledge of medical procedures, access to expert witnesses, and the resources to take on hospitals, insurance companies, and their legal teams. In our career, we have tried more cases than most attorneys are able to handle in a lifetime. This has given us real world experience and an ability to take cases to trial. While most attorneys will do everything that they can to avoid the courtroom, we make it clear that we are not afraid to go there. In fact, we prepare every single case as if we are going to trial. This makes the opposition more likely to come to a reasonable settlement and if they refuse, we’re ready to fight.

When you work with Anzalone & Doyle Trial Lawyers, you’re working with attorneys who have earned the highest levels of professional recognition. Our credentials include Board Certification in Civil Trial Law from the National Board of Trial Advocacy, membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates, recognition as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, selection to America’s Top 100 Attorneys, and induction into both the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Our attorneys have also been recognized by the National Trial Lawyers as a Top 25 Medical Malpractice Attorney in Pennsylvania. These distinctions reflect our proven track record of securing substantial results for our clients and our commitment to excellence in trial advocacy.

So don’t waste another moment. When you have so much on the line, you cannot afford to procrastinate. Give us a call to let us discuss your claim in more detail. Once we have decided upon an appropriate course of action, you can be confident knowing we will be there every step of the way.