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 Palm Coast and Flagler County
For decades, Flagler County residents had exactly one hospital: the AdventHealth Palm Coast campus on State Road 100. The county’s explosive growth changed the math, and AdventHealth opened a second hospital — AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway, just west of I-95 — with our office sitting next door to it. Add the imaging centers, urgent care clinics, and physician practices strung along Palm Coast Parkway and Belle Terre Parkway, and nearly all of the routine medical care in this city now flows through one health system.
That concentration cuts both ways for patients. It makes care convenient, but it also means a missed diagnosis, a medication error, or a mishandled emergency tends to happen inside a large institution with its own risk managers, its own lawyers, and a well-rehearsed playbook for investigating itself. Serious and specialty cases add another wrinkle: Palm Coast patients are routinely transferred or referred to bigger facilities in Daytona Beach, St. Augustine, or Jacksonville, so a single injury can involve providers in three counties — and delayed or mishandled transfers are themselves a recurring form of negligence we investigate.
No Florida malpractice suit can simply be filed. Chapter 766 requires a presuit investigation first: we obtain and organize the complete medical records, retain a qualified expert in the right specialty, and serve every prospective defendant with a notice of intent backed by that expert’s written corroboration. The defense then gets a 90-day window to conduct its own review before litigation can begin. The process is technical enough that mistakes can sink an otherwise strong case, and it consumes months of the limited time the statute of limitations allows — generally two years from discovery of the negligence, with a four-year outer limit that admits only narrow exceptions.
Adam Clark spent the early years of his career on the other side of these cases, defending hospital systems, physician groups, and individual providers. That history is a practical advantage for Palm Coast patients: he knows which records the defense will scrutinize, how their experts are chosen, and where institutional defenses tend to give way.
When a Flagler County case cannot be resolved in presuit or negotiation, it is tried at the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center in Bunnell, the county seat a short drive down State Road 100, within Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit. We prepare every case as if it will be decided there, by a Flagler County jury — because the cases that are ready for trial are the ones that settle well.
