Medical City Lewisville Hospital Malpractice Lawyer

Trial-Ready Hospital Negligence Attorneys for Medical City Lewisville Hospital Patients and Families

The Types of Medical City Lewisville Lawsuits Our Hospital Malpractice Attorneys Handle

Hastings Law Firm represents patients in Medical City Lewisville Hospital lawsuits in Lewisville, Texas, involving childbirth and newborn intensive care, emergency and trauma treatment, and surgery. Our hospital malpractice lawyers build each case from the complete hospital chart and the opinions of physicians in the relevant specialty. We use that evidence to prove how the care departed from accepted medical practice and what the injury has cost the patient.

The cases we see most often at a Level III trauma center with a Level III NICU like Medical City Lewisville Hospital include:

• Labor, delivery, and NICU errors. A high-risk pregnancy or labor can show warning signs that no one acts on, and a premature or critically ill newborn can have a condition that is overlooked or treated too late. A child hurt during delivery or in newborn intensive care can require therapy, equipment, and ongoing care well into adulthood, which reshapes the family’s daily life. Our Dallas birth injury lawyers set the fetal monitoring strips and labor notes beside the NICU chart to pinpoint when trouble first showed.
• Emergency and trauma care delays. Internal bleeding, a traumatic injury, a heart attack, or a stroke can be overlooked after a patient reaches the emergency room, or care can begin too late to help. That lost time can leave lasting disability or the loss of a loved one. Our Dallas medical misdiagnosis lawyers match triage times against test results and imaging reports to show when each sign was present.
• Surgical errors. A patient can be hurt by an error in the operating room during spine, orthopedic, weight loss, or heart surgery, or by a post-operative complication that nobody catches. Repair may mean a second surgery, more days in the hospital, and additional recovery time. Our Dallas surgical error lawyers check the surgeon’s operative note against the anesthesia, recovery, and nursing records.

While these are common claim types, our hospital malpractice attorneys handle any valid medical negligence case that arises at this hospital.

About Medical City Lewisville Hospital on West Main Street

Medical City Lewisville Hospital is located at 500 W Main St in Lewisville, Texas, and serves southern Denton County as part of Medical City Healthcare. It is an Advanced Level III Trauma Center with more than 150 beds. Its services include labor and delivery, a Level III NICU for newborns, surgery, cardiology, stroke treatment, and inpatient physical rehabilitation.

The hospital’s About Us page says Medical City Healthcare provides care “with the resources and strength of HCA Healthcare.” Its emergency room treats both adults and children. Medical City Lewisville also appears in the Advanced (Level III) group on the state health department’s roster of designated trauma facilities.

Expectant mothers are cared for in the labor and delivery unit, which offers high-risk maternity care, birthing suites, postpartum rooms, a newborn nursery, and mother-baby care. That page also says a neonatologist or neonatal nurse practitioner is in the hospital around the clock for high-risk newborns. Premature and critically ill babies are treated in the Level III NICU, which the state also places at Level III on its list of designated neonatal facilities.

The surgical program performs both inpatient and outpatient procedures, some of them robot-assisted, in areas such as cardiac surgery and neurosurgery. It also includes orthopedic and joint care, spine care, and weight loss surgery. The hospital describes its cardiology program as full-service, with heart surgery that includes off-pump bypass surgery.

Neurological patients are seen through its neurology services, and the hospital calls its stroke treatment program a Primary Stroke Center. Imaging and diagnostic services support those teams, and inpatient physical rehabilitation continues a patient’s recovery after the acute stage of care.

A mother can move from labor and delivery to mother-baby care while her newborn is admitted to the NICU. A patient from the emergency room can go on to imaging, surgery, and rehabilitation. Every one of those units documents its own part, so the course of care is only complete when the separate charts are read together.

Our Lewisville medical malpractice lawyers represent patients from Lewisville and the surrounding communities. Our firm also takes cases for patients of other Medical City Healthcare hospitals. They include Medical City Denton in Denton, Medical City Plano in Plano, and Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas.

Can You File a Lawsuit Against Medical City Lewisville Hospital, the Doctor, or Both?

A lawsuit can name Medical City Lewisville Hospital, a treating physician, or both, once the records establish whose negligent care caused the injury and who employed each provider. Section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code requires an expert report supporting the claim. The report must be served on each defendant within 120 days after that defendant’s original answer is filed.

Texas holds a hospital vicariously liable for an employee’s negligence within the scope of the job, such as a mistake by a staff nurse. Separately, the hospital can be liable for its own choices as an institution, including staffing and patient safety systems. A doctor carries responsibility for the treatment that doctor personally gave.

A hospital is responsible for an independent physician’s care only in limited circumstances, such as ostensible agency. That exception applies when the hospital held the physician out as its own and the patient reasonably believed and relied on it. Whether each provider was an employee or a contractor appears in the records, and it determines who is named in a lawsuit against Medical City Lewisville.

A lawyer to sue a hospital needs those answers before a claim is filed. Medical care always carries some risk, and a disappointing result is not, on its own, proof of negligence. Where harm was preventable, those responsible for it should be held accountable, and our Dallas hospital malpractice lawyers explain these rules in more depth.

How Does the Texas Cap on Noneconomic Damages Apply to a Claim Against Medical City Lewisville?

Texas caps the noneconomic damages available in any health care liability claim against Medical City Lewisville, the compensation for pain, mental anguish, physical impairment, and disfigurement. Section 74.301 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code limits them to $250,000 per claimant for physicians and other individual providers, and $250,000 for each health care institution. If more than one institution is liable, their combined limit is $500,000 per claimant.

The cap reaches only that noneconomic part of a claim. Economic damages, such as past and future medical care, lost earnings, and the cost of a child’s lifelong care, are not limited by Section 74.301. Medical expenses are measured by what was actually paid or incurred by or on behalf of the patient, under Section 41.0105 of the same code.

A wrongful death or survival claim follows a different rule. Section 74.303 sets an overall limit for those claims that is adjusted for inflation. That limit does not apply to necessary medical, hospital, and custodial care, whether the care was received before judgment or will be needed in the future.

For a family, the uncapped economic side can carry the most weight, especially after a birth or NICU injury. A child who will need therapy, equipment, and nursing support for years has future costs that must be proven with evidence. No result can be promised, but a careful record gives those needs their full weight. Our attorneys work with medical professionals and financial experts to document what the care will actually require.

How We Work With Injured Medical City Lewisville Patients and Their Families

Hastings Law Firm represents injured patients and families in Lewisville, Texas, in malpractice claims, from their first phone call about Medical City Lewisville Hospital through settlement or trial. Our lawyers manage the records requests, the medical review, the expert testimony, and all dealings with the defense.

A member of our intake team takes that first call, and any family member may make it for a patient who cannot. Share what you know about what happened, where in the hospital it happened, and who provided the care. Our staff works to make sure each family is heard, because your description guides which records we request first.

We obtain the full medical file for you. Then the attorneys and medical professionals on our staff go through the NICU charting, labor and delivery notes, emergency and trauma records, and operative reports. They set out each provider’s actions, anything left undone, and the timing of both. When our hospital negligence lawyers take on a claim, that record, explained by qualified physicians, is its foundation.

After that, our attorneys speak for you with the hospital’s insurer and defense counsel. Board-certified patient advocates on our team stay in contact with your family and explain each important development clearly when it happens. Our hospital malpractice attorneys pursue a settlement equal to everything the injury has cost your household. If the insurer will not offer that, we are prepared to take your case to a jury.

If You or a Loved One Were Injured at Medical City Lewisville, Speak With Our Medical Attorneys Today

In Lewisville, Texas, Hastings Law Firm handles malpractice claims for people injured during care at Medical City Lewisville Hospital and for their families. We perform a free case review to find out whether you have a valid claim and which providers it would name. What you share with us during that review stays confidential.

You pay no fees or costs unless we win, and we will explain your options at every step. Our Dallas medical malpractice lawyers also serve families across North Texas. Our team is here for you.