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Kacie DeneigeKacie Deneige ★★★★★ Always easy to get ahold of! I never have to wait to speak to anyone.alexis paytonalexis payton ★★★★★ JOSH AND JESSICA WORKED VERY HARD TO GET ME THE SETTLEMENT I NEEDED! I RECOMMEND THEM 10/10. EVERY SINCE MY CASE STARTED THEY HAVE BEEN NOTHING BUT NICE TO ME AND MY SISTER, THEY BECAME FAMILY! IF YOU ARE EVER IN A WRECK CALL MULLEN AND MULLEN AND ASK FOR JOSH HE WILL MOST DEFINITELY WORK HARD TO GET YOU EVERYTHING YOU DESERVE!Lisa MyersLisa Myers ★★★★★ I highly recommend Mullen and Mullen Personal Injury Lawyers. They were great about handling my case. Excellent on answering questions that I had throughout. I greatly appreciate the Lawyers and their team. They handled my case great and they are very reliable and dependable. I am forever thankful for them.Diane WallaceDiane Wallace ★★★★★ Mullen and Mullen did an absolutely brilliant job representing me in an injury lawsuit and getting me maximum settlement results. I recommend them highly!Kimberly PalmooreKimberly Palmoore ★★★★★ The best Accident Attorney's in the whole metro plex. Thanks Mr Morrison.Terrie RachallTerrie Rachall ★★★★★ Joe Morrison with Mullen and Mullen was fantastic representing me for an injury on someone's property. He kept me updated through the entire 2 year process. If I had any questions, Joe took the time to personally take my call and provide answers. Joe negotiated a settlement very quickly and ensured I received a fair settlement. I highly recommend Mullen and Mullen and would hire them again if I need help in the future. Best experience with any lawyer I have ever had!!Caryn BonosevichCaryn Bonosevich ★★★★★ Mullen & Mullen is awesome! Joseph and Erika made the process simple. I am thankful for the personal service I received.Andrew BrownAndrew Brown ★★★★★ Shane Mullen helped me with a complex medical malpractice case. His commitment to my case and attention to detail led to a favorable outcome. I highly recommend Shane and the Mullen & Mullen Law Firm.Natasha MaloneNatasha Malone ★★★★★ I had the honor to work with Mr. Morrison and his team recently and he was a life saver. He was thorough, detail oriented and down to earth as they come. He knows his law and doesn't make you feel like a number in line, but like a human. You can't go wrong with direct access and a discounted rate, I made the right decision and you will too.Roison FoxRoison Fox ★★★★★ They helped me out of a tough situation, and never stopped fighting for what I deserved. I am so great full to have them as my law firm when I got in a bad wreck, I highly encourage they will support and guide you through out it all.Camry AdamsCamry Adams ★★★★★ Karen Lavigne is my name, and I had a great experience with Mullen & Mullen. Josh and Jessica was very patient and informative. If I had to decide again on which law firm to go with it would be Mullen & Mullen. Very transparent about ALL of my money down to the penny. I definitely recommend.Evelyn RoldanEvelyn Roldan ★★★★★ Thank you to lawyer Mullen for calling and clarifying my husband’s case.js_loader

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If you were injured due to medical malpractice, our skilled Dallas attorneys fight tenaciously to ensure the maximum available settlement while offering you the lowest contingency fee. We handle your case the way we would want our own case handled.

Top 50 Wrongful Death Settlements in the Nation in 2021Mullen & Mullen is consistently recognized by TopVerdict for obtaining some of the largest recoveries in the entire state of Texas. In the last 3 years our firm made the Texas “Top 50 Personal Injury Settlements” list 43 times. Our stellar results allow us to offer a below industry standard 29% pre-suit contingency fee which means more money in your pocket.

Our experienced local team has an incredibly strong work ethic and truly cares. We’ve been privileged to serve North Texas for over 40 years. This is our backyard. Call (214) 747-5240 now for a free consultation and some excellent advice.

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A Little About Our Highly Skilled Attorneys

Attorney Shane V. Mullen, Managing Partner

Attorney Shane Mullen, Managing Partner at Mullen & Mullen Law Firm
Shane V. Mullen, Personal Injury Attorney

Managing Attorney, Shane V. Mullen has been handling medical malpractice cases for 21 years. He is “Top Rated” by Thompson Reuters who named him as a Texas Super Lawyer 3 consecutive years. Shane is also a lifetime member of both the Million & Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums, solidifying his expertise in handling significant cases. He is also an esteemed member of Rue Ratings’ Best Attorneys of America, further attesting to his exceptional legal prowess. Shane brings hard-won, battle born knowledge to your case.

Attorney Joseph R. Morrison, Senior Associate

Attorney Joseph Morrison, Senior Associate Attorney at Mullen & Mullen Law Firm
Joseph R. Morrison, Personal Injury Attorney

Attorney Joseph R. Morrison has been handling medical malpractice cases for 18 years. He has established himself as a highly skilled legal professional. Notably, he served as counsel of record in a case that garnered recognition from VerdictSearch.com as a top 5 Premises liability (slip and fall) settlement in Texas. The defendant in this case was a Fortune 500 company with an annual revenue exceeding 11 billion. The specific case, Jeffrey Young v. ConAgra Foods, Inc., showcased Joe’s exceptional abilities in achieving favorable outcomes.

Joe is a distinguished member of The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers, solidifying his standing among the nation’s most esteemed legal practitioners. Furthermore, his membership in both the Million & Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums further attests to his expertise in handling substantial cases.

Attorney Regis L. Mullen, Founder

Regis L. Mullen, Attorney at Law, Dallas Personal Injury
Regis L. Mullen, Personal Injury Attorney

Attorney Regis L. Mullen, our Founder, has been handling medical malpractice cases for 56 years. He received his Admission to practice law in 1967, and was previously a Litigation Supervisor at Allstate Insurance Company. Regis knows all the tactics liability carriers use to deny or reduce personal injury settlements. Drawing upon his profound comprehension of the inner workings of the insurance industry, he established a law firm dedicated to meeting the legal needs of injured individuals in North Texas.

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About Medical Malpractice Cases

Mullen & Mullen Law Firm has been fighting for the rights of North Texas medical negligence victims for over 40 years. We have the knowledge, skills, experience, and financial stability to take on medical professionals and the big insurance companies they are aligned with. Our firm serves as co-counsel on these cases with some of the best litigators in the entire State of Texas at no additional expense to you.

All of us rely on doctors and other medical professionals to render services in a safe and reasonable manner when we are sick or hurt. Most of the time these services are rendered professionally and competently. Sometimes, however, the standard of care is violated, and people are injured or killed in negligence cases involving doctors, hospitals, surgical facilities, nurses, nursing homes, or other healthcare facilities.

Dallas medical malpractice claims are often challenging due to changes in Texas law specifically designed to cut back on these types of cases.

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It is imperative that you contact an experienced Dallas personal injury attorney as soon as you suspect medical negligence has occurred.

Many times medical malpractice happens in one of the following situations:

  • A doctor offers an incorrect diagnosis
  • A doctor fails to diagnose something they should have
  • An error is committed during a surgery or procedure
  • Medication is prescribed without regards to possible side-effects or without considering the interaction with other prescription drugs a person is currently taking
  • Services are provided to the wrong patient
  • Procedures are not followed correctly or proper procedures were not even in place
  • A baby was delivered incorrectly
  • Patients suffered abuse or neglect
  • Patients were not properly monitored or supervised

The above list is not exhaustive. Any treatment below the minimum standard of care could be the basis for a Texas medical malpractice case. If you were harmed, or a loved one was killed, due to possible medical negligence, please call (214) 747-5240 to speak with our Dallas medical malpractice attorneys as soon as possible for a free consultation.

Our lawyers and co-counsel handle Texas medical malpractice claims on a contingency fee basis. You only pay us if we obtain a financial settlement for you or a loved one.

The Ultimate Guide to Filing a Texas Medical Malpractice Claim

Medical negligence is one of the most difficult types of malpractice cases to prove.

According to a Forbes post, medical negligence is the third leading cause of death in the U.S., but only 15% of all personal injury suits filed are based on medical negligence. Plus, 80% end up in the client not getting any financial compensation whatsoever. You must have a very strong trail of evidence to establish medical negligence.

What do you have to show to win a Dallas medical malpractice Claim?

To establish medical negligence, you need to demonstrate the treating professional deviated from the “standard of care” – which is what a reasonably prudent medical professional would or would not have done under the same or similar circumstances.

Here are some basic requirements you must demonstrate to win your medical malpractice case:

A Doctor-Patient Relationship Existed

You need to show you hired the doctor and that he/she agreed to be hired. For example, if you have a consulting doctor who doesn’t treat you directly, you may not be able to sue them for medical negligence.

Your Doctor Acted with Negligence

We talked about this above. In addition to taking action that a reasonable doctor would take under the same circumstances, you should also know you’re not entitled to get the best care possible. Your doctor’s care simply must be “reasonably skillful and careful.” If your doctor doesn’t act in that way, then you may have a medical negligence case.

The Doctor’s Negligence Must Cause Your Injury

If you’re already sick or physically injured and you get treatment, did your current ailments cause further problems, or did your doctor’s actions cause them? Usually, this means getting a medical expert to testify it’s “more likely than not” your doctor’s negligence caused your injury.

Your Injury Led to Specific Damages

Even if your doctor was negligent, you can’t suit him or her if the actions didn’t cause any harm. If you experience additional physical pain, mental anguish, or medical bills you may have a provable medical negligence claim.

What is the Statute of Limitations in a Dallas medical malpractice case?

In Texas, you have 2 years from the date of injury (or death in the case of a wrongful death claim) to file. If you wait longer than 2 years, you can never file a lawsuit for that particular injury or death again. Most injury lawyers offer free consultations for medical malpractice cases. If you believe you or a loved one were the victim of medical negligence, get in touch with a qualified attorney today at (214) 747-5240.

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How much can you win in a Texas Medical Malpractice Claim

Depending on the type of medical negligence damages, you have certain limits you can recover in Texas cases.

With Texas medical malpractice cases, what’s one of the first things that goes through practically everyone’s mind? Big dollar value payouts to victims and their survivors. However, these settlements are not as common as they seem. That’s because they’re sensational stories, the kind people pay attention to in the media. Sometimes outliers get reported the most and appear to be typical. The truth? Those situations are actually fairly uncommon.

However, legislators in Texas believed unfairly large settlements to medical malpractice victims inflated physician insurance premiums too much. As a result, in 2003, and in the years since, they passed tort reform in Texas that caps the amount of damages you can receive in medical malpractice cases.

Here’s how it works right now:

“Non-Economic” Damages are Limited

“Non-economic” damages refer to damages you can recover that are not purely economic in nature. Traditional non-economic damages include pain, suffering, mental anguish, and impairment.

You can generally recover $250,000 from each doctor, healthcare provider, or hospital, and a maximum of $500,000 total. Some possibility exists to recover more non-economic damages but that requires a very extensive analysis and is beyond the scope of this basic overview.
If the above amount sounds unfair to you, know that it is a highly controversial law and you wouldn’t be the only one disagreeing with it.

Economic Damages Are Not Limited

“Economic damages” refer to your cost of past, present, and future medical care, reimbursement of lost income, compensation for loss of earning capacity, and any other financial loss directly attributable to the medical professional’s negligence. Those types of damages are not capped in Texas.

Do You Have a Texas Medical Malpractice Case?

Time for some straight talk. Texas medical malpractice claims are super-tough to prove. Many personal injury lawyers make you answer a barrage of questions to see if they have a good chance of winning your case. Most will want to review extensive medical records before agreeing to represent you or your family.

They do that for a couple of reasons:

  • The law makes it purposefully difficult to prove medical malpractice to reduce frivolous lawsuits and insurance costs for medical professionals
  • It takes a lot more money out of lawyers’ pockets to hire expert witnesses to prove your case, so there’s more risk on their part. An expert report is required early on in the process which makes these cases very cost prohibitive – especially when factoring in the cap on non-economic damages.

While we have a great legal system here in the US, it’s not perfect. So it’s best to know that reality up front.

What types of Texas medical malpractice cases have a high chance of winning compensation?

Negligent Prenatal Care

Both the child and mother can experience harm if doctors are negligent in this way. Circumstances include doctors failing to identify a mother’s medical condition, failing to identify birth defects present in the baby, failing to identify an ectopic pregnancy (one where the baby develops outside the Fallopian tube), or failing to diagnose a disease that the baby could catch.

Negligence During Childbirth

Usually, the news isn’t good when birth injuries happen. They dramatically affect a child’s life for years, and sometimes their entire lifetime. These birth defects can also cause serious harm to the mother too. Doctors often cause medical errors by failing to anticipate birth complications, failing to respond to signs of fetal distress, failing to order a cesarean section, or incompetent use of a forceps. Sometimes they even cause cerebral palsy.

Medication Errors

Doctors make more than 1.5 million medication errors that harm Americans each year. Medication errors usually happen when the incorrect dosage is given. The nurse may give the patient the wrong amount. The doctor could simply write the wrong dosage. Or the equipment that provides the medication malfunctions.

Misdiagnosis

As of 2015, this may be the leading cause of medical malpractice. Infections, tumors, heart attacks, blood clots in your lungs, and heart disease are the most commonly misdiagnosed conditions. Unfortunately, these conditions are complex and don’t have consistent, straightforward symptoms in every person. So errors are often made.

Surgical Errors

Here, we’re not talking about amputating the wrong body part (most of the time). Those stories make the headlines, but that’s because they’re sensational. They rarely happen (although they do in some cases) but would certainly qualify as medical malpractice. More commonly, a surgeon damages a nerve, fails to control bleeding, or leaves some sort of medical product inside the patient.

If you’re considering filing a Texas medical malpractice claim, contact our lawyers to discuss your potential case now at (214) 747-5240. Please note almost all medical malpractice cases require litigation to obtain a recovery.

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Can you sue a Dallas doctor for misdiagnosis?

To prove you were misdiagnosed and to be able to claim financial damages under medical malpractice, you need to demonstrate:

  1. You had a relationship with the doctor you’re suing (Sometimes many doctors are involved and you have to make sure you have the right one.)
  2. The doctor acted negligently i.e., not in a reasonably skillful or competent manner
  3. Your doctor’s negligence proximately caused your injury or injuries (or death in the case of a loved one)

In most cases, it’s the second and third points that get the most debate.

Some Examples to Clear This Issue Up

At a practical level, you must show one of these two things happened in the case of misdiagnosis:

  • Your doctor did not include the correct diagnosis, while a reasonably skilled and competent doctor would have done so
  • Your doctor made the correct diagnosis, but didn’t do the appropriate testing or refer you to specialists to confirm the diagnosis

Medical Malpractice Cases are the Hardest to Prove

Legislators have made medical malpractice difficult to prove to discourage frivolous lawsuits and the inflation of liability insurance costs (that they think get passed on to you and other patients). Winning a medical malpractice case requires clear evidence and powerful expert testimony (which is not inexpensive).

We’re not suggesting you shouldn’t pursue a case but it’s important to know the realities associated with medical malpractice cases in Texas. Contact our Dallas medical malpractice attorneys for a free case evaluation.

Why Do So Many Americans Die from Medical Malpractice?

It’s tough to sort out what’s really going on with any wide-scale problem like medical malpractice. In reality, there’s a number of possible reasons.

One theory, presented by the New York Times, is that having too much treatment actually causes more medical errors. For example, they note that since 1996, the number of MRIs ordered has increased by 4 times, while the percentage of doctor visits leading to the prescription of at least 5 drugs has tripled.

Some of these are necessary. But many are not. One survey they cited had orthopedic surgeons saying 24% of the tests they ordered were not medically necessary. They did these tests to protect themselves from lawsuits.

Some of these are necessary but many might not be. One survey they cited had orthopedic surgeons stating 24% of the tests they ordered were not medically necessary. They did these tests to protect themselves from lawsuits.
Another possible cause is difference in care you might receive at different hospitals. For example, an article at MedicalNewsToday.com says if patients treated in the bottom 10th percentile of hospitals from 2000 – 2002 instead got treatment at the best hospitals, about 4,000 lives would have been saved.

In addition, Life Extension Magazine proposes at least some of these preventable deaths are due to the fact that medical systems don’t consider these factors when analyzing human health:

  • Stress and its negative effects
  • Not enough exercise
  • Excessive caloric intake
  • Highly processed foods grown in chemically damaged soil
  • Exposure to thousands of different environmental toxins

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Call (214) 747-5240 to talk to a Dallas medical malpractice attorney right now. We won’t put any pressure on you to hire us on the spot. Simply learn how we’ll approach your case and get some excellent free advice. Make your decision only when you feel 100% ready. Do remember though, that the Texas statute of limitations gives you just 2 years from the date of your accident to file a claim.

We’ll come to your home or hospital room if it makes it easier on you! Phone and Zoom consultations are also available. You can call us, or use the form or chat feature on this page to request a free consultation now.

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