INJURED BY MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE?
NO FEES UNLESS YOU COLLECT
In the last 3 years, we’ve made TopVerdict’s annual Texas “Top 50 Personal Injury Settlements” list 43 times.
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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.
Mullen & 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.
Gross Settlements Before Fees & Expenses
We have achieved numerous multimillion-dollar settlements across all practice areas, but we are restricted from displaying some very large results due to settlement confidentiality. Here are a few recent results without confidentiality agreements:
$6,150,000.00
Work Accident
$4,000,000.00
Wrongful Death
$2,978,104.95
Vehicle Accident
$2,550,000.00
Vehicle Accident
$2,550,000.00
Vehicle Accident
$2,250,000.00
Premises Liability
According to TopVerdict.com, our Dallas attorneys consistently achieve some of the highest recoveries in the state of Texas. As a matter of fact, in the last three years we’ve made their “Texas Top 50 Personal Injury Settlements” list 43 times. For example, in 2021 one of our claims made the Top 10 list, eight made the Top 11-20 list, and ten made the Top 21-50 list. When you factor in our reduced 29% contingency fee, we are confident we will help you recover more. At Mullen & Mullen, we pride ourselves on routinely recovering full policy limits for our clients without the necessity of costly and time-consuming litigation.
We have access to state-of-the-art diagnostic technology through well-established relationships with medical doctors, surgeons, physical therapists, chiropractors, neurologists, counselors, and other healthcare providers in the entire DFW Metroplex. You receive the quality medical attention you need from local providers near where you live or work. These providers specialize in treating people hurt in accidents of all kinds and they know how to properly document injuries to meet the legal burden of proof in your personal injury case. These providers are also willing to delay billing collections until after your case is resolved so you can focus on recovering without additional stress. Physicians that don’t routinely treat accident victims as part of their practice usually turn away patients over fear of being involved in the legal process or fear of health insurance companies refusing to pay accident-related healthcare bills. Please call us at 214-747-5240 for a free consultation and some advice.
Even if you don’t have health insurance or can’t afford your deductible, Mullen & Mullen will secure you the quality healthcare and state-of-the art diagnostics you deserve with no upfront out of pocket costs.
Shane, Joseph and Regis have almost 100 years of combined experience practicing personal injury law. That doesn’t even include the combined experience of the attorneys that serve as of-counsel to Mullen & Mullen at no additional cost to our clients. Our firm continues to evolve, but we never forget our Core Values. We do the right thing, handle cases the way we would want our own case handled, and we truly listen to clients. We have over 40 years of local knowledge, and that matters!
Some lawyers forget that they represent the client, but we never have. Our legal team will make YOU the priority. You are the boss, and we will respond quickly to your requests for case updates and assistance. We guarantee that when you need to speak to your counsel, you will speak directly to your counsel, not to a paralegal or secretary, because that’s the way it should be.
Most firms hire an investigator to help develop evidence on your case and charge you back for that service. Our firm, however, has 2 full-time accident investigators on staff and we offer their services to you for free. This is another way we will maximize your compensation.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Video footage is worth a lot more. Our in-house videographer allows us to capture the true impact the accident has on your life beyond mere words on a piece of paper.
When necessary, Mullen & Mullen Law Firm uses cutting edge technology like 3D imaging videos to fully demonstrate the extent of our clients’ injuries to the insurance companies. This also helps maximize the value of your claim.
Mullen & Mullen’s attorneys live and work right here in Dallas, and always have. We believe in paying our success forward by helping people in the North Texas community, and are dedicated to supporting these local charities.
Our Managing Partner, Shane V. Mullen, has been handling personal injury 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.
With 18 years of personal injury experience, Attorney Joseph R. Morrison 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) verdict 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.
Both Shane and Joseph are lifetime members of the Million & Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums, meaning they have each settled cases in excess of two million. This solidifies their expertise in handling significant personal injury cases.
Our Founder, Attorney Regis L. Mullen, has 56 years of personal injury experience. Regis received his Admission to practice law in 1967. Previously a Litigation Supervisor at Allstate Insurance Company, he 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, Regis established a law firm dedicated to meeting the legal needs of injured individuals in North Texas.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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” 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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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 misdiagnosed conditions. Unfortunately, these conditions are complex and don’t have consistent, straightforward symptoms in every person so errors are often made.
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.
To prove you were misdiagnosed and to be able to claim financial damages under medical malpractice, you need to demonstrate:
In most cases, it’s the second and third points that get the most debate.
At a practical level, you must show one of these two things happened in the case of misdiagnosis:
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.
It’s tough to sort out what’s really going on with any wide-scale problem like medical malpractice. There are several possible reasons though.
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:
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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