Medical Malpractice & Professional Negligence

When a doctor or other healthcare provider makes a medical mistake, the results for the patient can be devastating. Injuries caused by medical negligence can have life-long impacts on the patient and their families. These injuries may result in significant medical bills, costs for future medical care, lost wages, and physical and emotional pain, suffering and mental anguish. 

Medical malpractice claims are among the most complex personal injury claims because of the complicated medicine involved and the unlimited resources of the hospital and insurance companies defending the claims. The medical malpractice attorneys at Silverman Thompson have the experience and resources to successfully advocate for our clients in this complicated arena, while compassionately guiding them through a difficult and painful experience.    

Senior Partner Andrew G. Slutkin leads the firm’s medical malpractice department and has over 30 years of experience litigating high-stakes, complex medical malpractice matters against many of the largest and most world-renowned hospitals and healthcare institutions in the country.  Mr. Slutkin is assisted by Partner Ethan S. Nochumowitz, who has more than a decade of experience successfully prosecuting catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims arising out of medical negligence.  Mr. Slutkin and Mr. Nochumowitz collectively have recovered more than six hundred million dollars for their clients.    

Senior Partner Andrew Slutkin leads Silverman Thompson’s medical malpractice team.

Mr. Slutkin and his team have successfully resolved hundreds of medical malpractice cases in a variety of areas, including: 

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Our Process

Our investigation of your malpractice claim starts with a detailed conversation with one of our experienced medical malpractice attorneys so we can learn more about what happened to you. From there, we will order all of the relevant medical records, organize them, and review them in detail.

The next step is to have the medical records reviewed either by our legal nurse consultant (who is a Registered Nurse), or by an expert physician in the relevant field of medicine.  One of the resources that we have that sets us above most other medical malpractice attorneys is our access to top, highly trained medical experts who were educated at the country’s most prestigious medical schools and work at world-renowned hospitals.   

If after reviewing the medical records, our experts are able to certify that in their opinion, the healthcare provider violated the standard of care (acted negligently under the circumstances), we will make a pre-litigation claim or file a lawsuit against that healthcare provider which begins the process of obtaining the compensation that our clients deserve. 

It should come as no surprise that doctors, the hospitals that employ them, and the insurance companies that insure them, have essentially unlimited resources to defend medical malpractice claims in an effort to avoid providing fair compensation to patients and their families. It is therefore crucial that victims of medical malpractice hire attorneys like Silverman Thompson who have the knowledge, risk tolerance, and the resources to take on the healthcare institutions and their insurance companies.   

As a result of Silverman Thompson’s significant track record of success in these case, and our demonstrated willingness to take medical malpractice cases to a jury trial, when necessary, hospitals and their insurers take us—and by extension, our clients— seriously.      

Significant Verdicts and Settlements 

As a result of our wealth of knowledge and experience handling medical malpractice cases, we regularly obtain multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements for our deserving clients who have been injured and harmed by medical mistakes. The following is just a sample of those recoveries: 

  • $7,600,000 for failing to properly interpret a prenatal sonogram 
  • $5,000,000 for wrongful death due to the failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism  
  • $4,000,000 for failure to diagnose a spinal cord condition 
  • $3,500,000 for negligent implantation of a spinal cord stimulator 
  • $3,100,000 for failure to timely diagnose and treat lymphoma  
  • $2,999,000 for failure to prevent pulmonary embolism  
  • $2,900,000 for failure to diagnose infection resulting in leg amputation  
  • $2,500,000 for failure to diagnose infection resulting in leg amputation 
  • $2,500,000 for failure to prevent stroke following vascular surgery  
  • $2,000,000 for failure to diagnose a chromosomal abnormality  

A more comprehensive list of Silverman Thompson’s significant verdicts and settlements can be found here. 

As a result of verdicts and settlements such as these and others, hospitals and their insurers consider Mr. Slutkin and his team to be among the most highly respected medical malpractice attorneys in Maryland.   

How We Can Help in an Injury Case 

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We invite you to contact us or call our office toll-free at 800.385.2243 for a complimentary consultation to see how we can make a difference for you. 

Meet Our Team 

Andrew G. Slutkin
Andrew G. Slutkin, Partner aslutkin@silvermanthompson.com
Ethan S. Nochumowitz
Ethan S. Nochumowitz, Partner enochumowitz@silvermanthompson.com

How Do I File a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit in Maryland?

Requirements for Filing a Malpractice Case in Maryland
As Maryland medical malpractice attorneys, we often are asked what the requirements are for filing a medical malpractice claim in Maryland. Pursuing a medical malpractice claim is a complex process that is governed by very specific laws and requirements. In Maryland, understanding those laws and requirements is crucial to the likelihood of success and compensation for victims of medical malpractice.
Step 1: Hire a Medical Malpractice Attorney
If you may have been a victim of medical malpractice, you should hire an attorney immediately to promptly investigate your potential claims. An investigation by an attorney will include obtaining and reviewing the medical records and hiring the required and appropriate expert to certify that your case has merit — all within enough time to ensure that the claims are filed well in advance of the statute of limitations. Because of the complexity of medical malpractice claims, you should not attempt to satisfy these legal requirements on your own.
Step 2: File Claim Within Statute of Limitations
The next requirement is the claim must be filed within the statute of limitations, otherwise known as the “deadline” for filing a malpractice lawsuit. Generally speaking: In Maryland, the statute of limitations for filing a medical malpractice case generally is three years from the date of the alleged negligence if the incident happened when the person was older than 18. That deadline sometimes can be delayed to three years from the date the negligence was or should have been discovered. However, in no case (other than a case involving a minor who would have until their 21st birthday to file a claim) can a medical malpractice claim be filed more than five years from the date of the alleged malpractice, regardless of when the alleged negligence was discovered.
Step 3: Claim Reviewed by a Qualified Medical Expert
Subsequently, the claim must be supported by a “Certificate of Qualified Expert” (sometimes called a certificate of merit) and a report authored by a medical expert. That expert must have reviewed the facts of the case and certify that the defendant healthcare provider violated the applicable standard of care and that such a violation was a cause of the injuries and damages sustained by the victim. But, the claim cannot be supported by just any medical expert. The expert must be licensed to practice medicine, actively practicing in the same or similar field as the defendant healthcare provider, and not devote more than 25 percent of their professional time to testifying in medical malpractice cases.
Step 4: File “Statement of Claim”
Finally, before filing the medical malpractice lawsuit in a state or federal court, the plaintiff first must file a “Statement of Claim” in the Maryland Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office (HCADRO). Once the claim has been filed and the appropriate Certificate of Merit and Report has been filed along with the claim, the plaintiff may choose (and usually does choose) to unilaterally “waive” the claim out of the HCADRO and file a lawsuit in state or federal court, at which time the discovery process will begin.

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