We understand the importance of justice and accountability in the field of healthcare and our mission involves ultimately improving the quality of care where we practice. If you or a loved one have experienced harm or the death of a loved one due to medical negligence or error, you have come to the right place. Contact me directly, today, to start a conversation.
Throughout our lives, we often find ourselves putting our trust in, or entrust our loved ones, to hospitals, doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers. When your health or the health of a loved one is at stake, there is simply no room for a preventable error. How often do preventable medical errors really happen? What reasonable measures were available to help you or a loved one? What would other reasonable healthcare providers have done under the same or similar circumstances?
Preventable medical errors too-often end with tragic results. Recent studies show that between 250,000 to 440,000 deaths a year are caused by preventable medical errors in hospitals. According to a 2016 study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and published in the British Medical Journal, deaths caused by medical errors are now believed to be the third leading cause of death in the United States, above stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, respiratory disease, and accidents, and second only to heart disease and cancer.
Authors of an earlier study in the Journal of Patient Safety called the alarming number of preventable deaths in hospital “… an epidemic of patient harm…”.
Learn more through the below links:
- Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US
- A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care
Any doctor, nurse, or hospital employee can be held accountable for medical malpractice. Medical malpractice and medical negligence are synonymous – they mean the same thing. Simple examples of hospital negligence occur when the hospital staff may be overworked, if the organization is attempting to cut hours and save money; if the hospital isn’t effectively allocating its recruiting budget to fill in needful staffing positions to save more money; if its agents or employees of the hospital are held negligent; if the hospital failed to adopt or enforce safer policies and procedures for the practice of medicine in its facilities which led to preventable harm or death of a patient; or if the hospital doctors, nurses or staff failed to act appropriately and/or in a timely manner that led to harm or death of a patient.
I am dedicated to serve victims of medical negligence and their families. I am up-to-date and well-versed in the many specific, and often complex, nuances of the various medical malpractice laws and schematics in Florida and Kentucky, and the medical-legal issues that surround the many various types of medical negligence cases facing patients and the communities we live in.
Medical malpractice is a complex and sensitive area of law that addresses situations where healthcare professionals or institutions fail to meet the expected standard of care, resulting in harm or injury to patients. These cases can encompass a wide range of issues, including failure to timely diagnose or treat, failure to diagnose or treat, misdiagnosis, surgical errors, lack of informed consent, medication mistakes, hospital system failures, and more.
At Adam Clark Law, we believe that everyone deserves access to quality healthcare, and when that trust and reasonable standard is broken, we are here to fight for your rights and the honor or memory of a loved one. We work tirelessly to hold negligent parties accountable for their actions.
We recognize that medical malpractice cases not only have a significant impact on the individual affected, but also on their families. We are committed to providing compassionate and personalized legal representation, ensuring that your voice is heard, and your concerns are addressed throughout the legal process for your medical malpractice case.
It is my passion for this area of law is grounded in an appreciation and respect for the healthcare industry, and in a desire to obtain justice on behalf of those who have been injured and/or killed by negligent and reckless healthcare providers. Our legal actions are meant to not only pursue full, fair and optimal justice for you and your loved ones, but also ultimately serve to SAVE LIVES, which would not be put into motion without your willingness and courage to bring to attention your claim against the negligent parties.
If you believe you or a loved one may have been a victim of medical malpractice, we encourage you to reach out to our team for a confidential consultation. Together, we can navigate the legal process, seek accountability, and work towards obtaining the justice you deserve.
Medical Malpractice in New Smyrna Beach
For most families in Southeast Volusia, medical care begins at AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach — the hospital on Palmetto Street that longtime residents still call Bert Fish. Its emergency department handles the community’s urgent moments, its inpatient floors and surgical suites handle much of the rest, and the most complex or traumatic cases are transferred north to the larger hospitals in Daytona Beach. Around that hub sits a wider network of care: urgent care clinics along the Dixie Freeway, imaging and surgery centers, physician practices, and the nursing and rehabilitation facilities serving Edgewater, Oak Hill, and Port Orange.
Malpractice can enter at any point in that chain. A chest pain dismissed in triage. A fracture or a tumor missed on imaging. A medication error on the floor. A discharge that came a day too soon, or a transfer that came an hour too late. When the harm is real and the care fell below what Florida law requires, the patient — not the institution — deserves an advocate whose only loyalty is to them.
That is a role we come to with unusual preparation. Before founding this firm, Adam Clark defended hospital systems and physician groups, which means the strategies the defense will deploy against your claim are strategies he once ran himself. We use that vantage point at every stage: reading the chart the way their reviewers will read it, framing the expert work they cannot easily rebut, and valuing the case with full knowledge of how the other side calculates risk.
Geography matters in these cases too. If a New Smyrna Beach patient’s treatment moves into Halifax Health’s system in Daytona Beach, the claim collides with Florida’s sovereign-immunity law, because Halifax is a public hospital district with its own notice rules and recovery limits. And every Florida malpractice claim, public or private, must clear the chapter 766 presuit gauntlet — a corroborating expert opinion, formal notices of intent, and a statutory investigation period — before a lawsuit can even be filed. We manage that entire process from our Canal Street office, and when suit becomes necessary we file in the Circuit Court for Volusia County within Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit.
If you believe something went wrong in your care or a loved one’s — here in town, or anywhere in Volusia County — reach out. The conversation is confidential, the consultation is free, and you will speak with the attorney himself.
