MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
After a serious medical injury, patients and families often have basic questions that remain unanswered. What happened? Could a different decision have changed the outcome? Which records will explain the course of care? A useful investigation begins by taking those questions seriously and examining the evidence carefully.
Lindenfeld Law represents patients in medical-negligence litigation involving serious injury and wrongful death. Eric Lindenfeld has litigated medical-malpractice claims involving complex questions of medical causation. His published scholarship addresses patient safety and malpractice policy. We approach each matter with close attention to the medicine and to the person living with the consequences.
The work
A chart may span multiple facilities, clinicians, and periods of treatment. We organize the chronology around the patient’s condition, the information available to providers, and the decisions that followed. That work helps identify the episodes of care that require closer medical review.
Concerns may involve how symptoms were assessed, how test results were followed, or how treatment was selected and carried out. We examine the actual record and the surrounding circumstances, keeping the investigation focused on the decisions that may explain the injury.
An underlying illness, a complication, and the effects of treatment may overlap. Separating those issues calls for disciplined analysis of the records and appropriate medical expertise. We work to understand what the evidence supports, where uncertainty remains, and which questions require further investigation.
The consequences of a medical injury can extend through years of treatment, lost work, changes in independence, and additional family responsibilities. We examine those effects alongside the medical issues so that the case reflects the patient’s circumstances, including future needs that the available evidence can establish.
Our approach
Eric personally directs each case. We build the factual record from the patient’s experience and the clinical documents, then identify the medical questions that need independent assessment. The purpose is a clear, evidence-based understanding of the care and its consequences. A disappointing outcome alone does not answer those questions.
We also make the litigation understandable to the client. The records being sought, the issues under review, the expense of developing the evidence, and the choices ahead should have a clear purpose. Our preparation aims to explain a complex medical history accurately and persuasively to people encountering it for the first time.
Our approach to advocacy and feesExperience
Selected experience of Eric Lindenfeld at prior firms, with other counsel.
View Eric’s experienceRepresented patients in medical-malpractice litigation involving serious injury and complex questions of medical causation.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Thurgood Marshall Law Review · 2016
The consequences of damage caps and alternative approaches to patient safety and malpractice reform.
View publicationQuestions
A brief timeline of the care, the names of the providers or facilities, and a description of the injury are helpful. Bring any records or correspondence you already have. Identifying what remains unclear is useful too; a complete medical file is not necessary for an initial conversation.
It may raise questions about the device itself, the care provided, or both. Product claims focus on issues involving the product and its manufacturer; malpractice claims concern healthcare. The records and circumstances help determine which questions need investigation. Our mass-torts practice addresses pharmaceutical and medical-device product claims.
Important details may appear across progress notes, test results, medication records, and records from different providers. A careful chronology can show how information and treatment changed over time. It also helps frame focused questions for medical review instead of treating isolated entries as the complete picture.
Your lawyer
A senior trial lawyer stays close to the facts and takes direct responsibility for the work. Discuss your dispute, your priorities, and the practical path forward with Eric.