Dallas Regional Medical Center Malpractice Lawyer
Hastings Law Firm represents patients and families harmed at Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, Texas, in hospital malpractice claims. Our lawyers bring those claims against the hospital, the nurses and staff on its payroll, and the physicians who provided the care, together or separately. When medical care goes wrong, a patient and their family can be left with a serious injury, a longer recovery, or the loss of a loved one. Finding out what happened and who should be held accountable takes attorneys who understand medicine as well as they understand the courtroom. At Hastings Law Firm, medical malpractice is all we do!
Last Updated: September 28, 2026
Trial-Ready Hospital Negligence Attorneys for Dallas Regional Medical Center Patients and Families
Hastings Law Firm’s hospital negligence lawyers bring experienced representation to Dallas Regional Medical Center patients and families in Mesquite, Texas. Our founder, Tommy Hastings, is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law and has represented injured patients since 2001. Several members of our team are former malpractice defense attorneys who understand the tactics hospitals use to deny liability.
That background tells us early which arguments a hospital is likely to raise, and we shape our preparation to answer them. Specialists from our nationwide network of medical experts study the chart and explain, in terms a jury can follow, the care the patient was owed. Each case is prepared as though it were going to trial, an approach that has won multimillion-dollar settlements and record-setting verdicts. Those results come from a firm that has been dedicated exclusively to medical malpractice since 2005.
Call us now for a free, confidential case review. Our team will listen, investigate your claim, and explain your options.
The Types of Dallas Regional Medical Center Lawsuits Our Hospital Malpractice Attorneys Handle
Hastings Law Firm handles Dallas Regional Medical Center lawsuits in Mesquite, Texas, over emergency diagnosis, labor and delivery, and surgical care. Our hospital malpractice lawyers start with every page of the patient’s chart and with physicians who practice in the relevant specialty. With that evidence we show where treatment fell short of accepted practice and what that shortfall took from the family.
The cases we see most often at a hospital with emergency, maternity and surgical services like Dallas Regional Medical Center include:
- Delayed diagnosis in the emergency department. A heart attack, a stroke, internal bleeding or an infection can be missed in an adult or older patient, or care for it can start after the point where it would have helped. Lost hours can leave a patient and family facing lasting damage, additional recovery time, or the loss of a loved one. Working from the triage record, our Dallas medical misdiagnosis lawyers match each vital sign and test result to the time the next order was written.
- Labor and delivery errors. Warning signs in a mother or baby can be left unanswered during labor, delivery can come later than it should, or a newborn’s problem can be overlooked in the nursery. An injury at birth can shape a child’s development and a mother’s recovery for years. Our Dallas birth injury lawyers study the fetal heart tracings together with the labor notes and nursery charts.
- Surgical errors and missed complications. An error can occur in weight-loss, orthopedic, gynecologic or other surgery, or a complication afterward can be overlooked. Repairing the harm can take a second operation, extra days as an inpatient and additional recovery time. Our Dallas surgical error lawyers trace the operation and recovery step by step through the operative report, anesthesia record and post-surgical nursing entries.
While these are common claim types, our hospital malpractice attorneys handle any valid medical negligence case that arises at this hospital.
The Hastings Law Firm Difference
Results matter, but what truly sets us apart is how we achieve them. Every verdict, every settlement, and every Mesquite courtroom victory comes from one guiding promise: To treat each client’s fight for justice as if it were our own.
This balance of skill, experience, and empathy reflects our core philosophy that justice should not only compensate the injured, but also make health care safer nationwide.
About Dallas Regional Medical Center on North Galloway Avenue in Mesquite
Dallas Regional Medical Center is a hospital at 1011 North Galloway Avenue in Mesquite, Texas, in Dallas County. Despite the name, it sits in Mesquite rather than in the city of Dallas. The hospital is a member of Prime Healthcare Services and offers emergency medicine, labor and delivery, surgery, heart and stroke care, imaging and wound care.
The Emergency Medicine Center has emergency staff available every day, 24 hours a day. Older adults can be seen in the hospital’s Geriatric Emergency Department. The Primary Stroke Care Center offers 24/7 stroke team access, and the hospital also lists a Neurologic Care Center.
Its Women’s Health Center lists gynecology and labor and delivery, and the labor and delivery service includes a newborn nursery. The hospital’s surgical services include bariatric, orthopedic, gynecologic, gastrointestinal, vascular and robotic surgery. It also names an Orthopedic Center and a Bariatric & Weight Loss Institute.
Heart care includes cardiology services with diagnostic cardiac catheterization and the Heart Care Center. The hospital also provides imaging and radiology and wound care with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Within one course of care, a patient’s treatment can pass from the emergency department to imaging, then to a catheterization procedure or an operating room. A mother can go from labor and delivery to recovery while her baby is taken to the nursery. Every one of those units charts separately, which leaves the story of one illness divided among several records.
Our Mesquite medical malpractice lawyers bring those records together for patients hurt in the city. We also represent patients from other Dallas-area hospitals, including Baylor University Medical Center and White Rock Medical Center.
Can You File a Lawsuit Against Dallas Regional Medical Center, the Doctor, or Both?
A patient can bring a lawsuit against Dallas Regional Medical Center, the treating physician, or both, depending on whose care led to the injury. The hospital can answer for employees such as nurses and for its own conduct, and a physician answers for their own care. Under Section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, an expert report is due 120 days after each defendant’s original answer.
Hospital records identify the employer of each nurse, technician and physician who took part in the care. Those employment facts decide which parties a claim names, and they are the first thing a lawyer to sue a hospital has to establish. Our Dallas hospital malpractice lawyers describe how a hospital, its employees and the physicians practicing there can each carry responsibility.
Medicine carries risk, and a poor result is not always negligence. When an injury was preventable, the providers responsible should be held accountable.
Can Dallas Regional Medical Center Be Held Responsible Under Federal Law for Failing to Screen or Stabilize an Emergency Patient?
Under federal law, Dallas Regional Medical Center could be held responsible for failing to screen or stabilize an emergency patient if it participates in Medicare. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, 42 U.S.C. 1395dd, requires a medical screening examination for anyone seeking care in the emergency department. An emergency condition must then be stabilized with the staff and facilities available, or the patient transferred under the law’s rules.
The law is known as EMTALA, and its protections reach women in labor. A pregnant woman having contractions has an emergency medical condition when there is not enough time for a safe transfer before delivery. Our Texas birth injury lawyers look at how that rule applies to a mother in labor.
A person harmed as a direct result of a violation can bring a civil action against the hospital itself. The damages available are those Texas law allows for a personal injury. Any such action has to be brought no later than two years after the violation.
EMTALA has limits of its own, which the Fifth Circuit, the federal appeals court for Texas, addressed in Marshall v. East Carroll Parish Hospital Service District. The court said the statute “was not intended to be used as a federal malpractice statute”. A claim under it is about screening, stabilizing and transfer, while the quality of a diagnosis or treatment is judged under Texas malpractice law.
The two kinds of claim can apply side by side. For a patient or family, the emergency and transfer records show what screening was done, when it happened and what followed. Our attorneys review those records with both kinds of claim in mind.
How We Work With Injured Dallas Regional Medical Center Patients and Their Families
Hastings Law Firm’s hospital malpractice lawyers represent patients and families in Mesquite, Texas, after harm linked to care at Dallas Regional Medical Center. We take a claim from the opening phone call to its resolution, managing the medical records, the expert opinions and every exchange with the defense.
Your phone call reaches a member of our intake team, and a spouse, parent or adult child can make it for a patient too ill to do so. Tell our team what you recall of the treatment, roughly when it took place and who provided it. Our intake team works to make sure every caller is heard, and your account opens our review.
Next, we collect the full medical record for you. Our attorneys and medical professionals go through the emergency notes, labor, delivery and nursery charts, operative reports and nursing entries to rebuild the order of events. Should our hospital negligence lawyers accept your case, the claim rests on those records and on qualified physicians able to explain them.
After you hire us, the hospital, its insurance company and its attorneys deal with our firm instead of with you. Our board-certified patient advocates stay in contact with you and put new developments into plain language as they come up. We pursue a settlement that matches what the injury has cost your family. If the offers stay short of that, we are prepared to take your case to a jury.
If You or a Loved One Were Injured at Dallas Regional Medical Center, Speak With Our Medical Attorneys Today
Hastings Law Firm performs a free case review to find out whether someone harmed by care at Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, Texas, has a valid malpractice claim. Our Dallas medical malpractice lawyers examine what was done, who took part and how the treatment compared with the accepted standard.
Our team is here for you. The conversation is confidential, you owe no fee unless we win, and the review costs nothing. Contact us to understand your options.
Dallas Regional Medical Center Malpractice FAQs
This content was researched and written by the Hastings Law Firm editorial team, which includes attorneys, medical professionals, and experienced researchers. Our writing is informed by internal knowledge and practical experience, and we cross-check critical details against authoritative sources cited throughout. Every piece undergoes human-led fact-checking and legal review. Because legal and medical information can change, if you spot an error, please contact us. Learn more about our content standards and review process on our editorial policy page.
Brady D. Williams is a nationally recognized medical malpractice attorney who has spent his career handling high-stakes litigation for injured patients and families across the country. Licensed in both Texas and California, Brady draws on experience from hundreds of resolved medical cases to break down complex legal and medical topics for the people who need that information most. His writing reflects the same attention to detail and commitment to clarity that he brings to every case he handles.
