Maison Law represents the victims of premises liability negligence in California, including those hurt due to the negligent security provided to patients and visitors at a hospital. Our negligent security lawyers help the victims of criminal acts earn the support they need to make a full recovery. Please contact us for a free, no-obligation consultation. It’s a no-risk opportunity to find out what your injury and terrifying ordeal should be worth and how to hold a hospital or medical office fully responsible.
Do I Need a Lawyer After Falling Victim to a Negligent Security Crime?
If you or a loved one were seriously hurt during a criminal attack inside or around a hospital, you should speak to a California negligent security lawyer about your options. Those injuries can include broken bones, gunshot and knife wounds, assault wounds, the consequences of sexual assault, and other harm caused by a hospital health system and staff’s negligence.
No amount of money can change what happened or erase the trauma that’s left behind. However, you will need financial support for your recovery costs and for the time you are out of work and missing paychecks. These hardships and others should never fall to the victim.
General liability insurance providers will fight hard to avoid having to take responsibility for your physical and emotional harm suffered at a hospital. They’ll hope to convince you to accept less than you need to fully recover from an attack or talk you into accepting nothing at all. Your lawyer protects you from these unfair tactics and demands the maximum in compensation available so you can pay your medical bills and rebuild your life.
Negligent Security Risks for Patients at California Hospitals
Hospitals are usually part of enormous complexes that require a massive 24/7 effort to keep visitors safe as they park and walk into hospital buildings. Patients inside may also need vigilant security to keep them safe from criminals, other patients, and even the staff and doctors working at medical facilities. Sadly, many hospitals fail to provide the safe setting that patients and their families need at such a difficult time.
Hospitals and surgery centers in California all have a “duty of care” under California’s premises liability laws. They must act to keep visitors and patients absolutely safe on their property and inside their facilities. This includes the responsibility to keep guests safe from criminal acts and attacks outside hospitals and in a patient’s room.
Maison Law of California assists victims who are hurt due to these and other oversights by hospitals in negligent security cases:
- Open doors and unlocked windows. Broken locks.
- Broken alarms on doors.
- Malfunctioning security cameras.
- Malfunctioning “nurse call” buttons for patients.
- Not enough lighting in parking lots, along sidewalks, and outside hospital entrances.
- Inadequate personnel on the front desks allowing potential suspects in to see their victims.
- Untrained security guards or not enough security guards.
- Inadequate security in hospital parking lots and parking garages.
- Inadequate measures to keep you safe from other patients. The possibility of physical attacks and sexual assault by the staff or other patients.
- Allowing criminal suspects brought in for treatment to roam free. Improper monitoring of patients with a history of violence.
- Failure to warn patients and visitors of known safety hazards in high-crime areas or recent attacks around the hospital.
Having Legal Protection When Facing a Hospital’s Corporate Lawyers
If you become the victim of an attack due to the carelessness of a hospital staff, you can seek financial support and demand full compensation for your physical, emotional, and financial damages. But you should know that most hospitals have giant corporate owners.
These massive health systems have the money to pay teams of lawyers to help them avoid taking accountability for attacks. They may try to blame you for your own attack or try to downplay your injuries and scary experiences.
Corporate lawyers representing hospitals attempt to limit the support you and your family secure by any means possible. They can leave you without enough money to cover your medical bills and the monthly bills you fall behind on while out of work. These costs should be the complete responsibility of the hospital and its corporate owners.
Will the Criminal Trial for the Suspect Affect My Negligent Security Case?
No. After an assault, the suspect will face a judge and jury. However, the criminal justice system can be slow to assign a court date and reach a verdict. However, your case against the hospital will be separate and will be a civil case. Your lawyer can help you file your case as soon as you are ready. You don’t have to wait for the outcome of a criminal case to file.
The criminal trial will determine if the suspect committed the attack or not. Your civil case will hinge on proving that the hospital’s actions or inactions contributed to your injuries and harm. You can receive a negligent supervision settlement check even if a criminal suspect isn’t found guilty or a suspect is never identified.
Compensation Available for Negligent Security Victims
Victims who suffer physical assaults and sexual assaults at hospitals would need to file a claim that included a list of every hardship they’d suffered and will continue to suffer.
A California premises liability lawyer makes sure every economic and non-economic damage is included on this list. Anything left off might become a bill that victims and their families would have to use their own savings to pay. That outcome is unacceptable to Maison Law.
These are some of the economic damages that the victims of a criminal attack could recover from hospital owners and operators:
- Money to pay every medical bill, including for care expected to be needed in the months ahead.
- A lifetime of support for victims who are left to live with a physical disability after an attack. The same sort of support for those left with scars or permanent disfigurement.
- Travel costs for patients who must make doctor’s appointments while unable to drive and possibly in wheelchairs or on crutches.
- Lost income and benefits at work.
- Compensation for property damage.
These are some of the non-economic damages victims should demand help with:
- Support for the physical pain victims must go through.
- Support for the emotional trauma crime victims experience after an attack and throughout their lives.
- Loss of enjoyment of life.
- Loss of companionship with an injured spouse or partner.
- Support to pay for psychological counseling.
Families who lose a loved one in an attack allowed by negligent security are empowered to file a wrongful death claim. This claim allows them to seek support to help pay for the costs of a funeral and burial and any leftover medical bills. A wrongful death settlement must also help the family avoid further financial difficulties in the future when they’ll be without the wages a loved one can no longer provide to support close relatives.
A Maison Law wrongful death lawyer files this claim on behalf of the family and fights to make sure those left behind receive the most possible in a settlement check.
Contact Maison Law After a California Negligent Security Accident
In the aftermath of a criminal act at a California hospital, having reliable legal support can make all the difference. At Maison Law, we understand the significance of protecting both your health and legal rights. We stand up to giant hospital systems to make sure our clients receive everything they need to heal and rebuild their lives.
Contact Maison Law today for a free consultation to find out what your negligent security injury and hardships may be worth. We also help the victims of medical malpractice seek justice. There’s no obligation for this free case review, but if you decide we can help you earn more for your suffering, you won’t need any upfront money. We work on a contingency basis. It means we don’t get paid unless we win your case for you. Then our fee comes out of the settlement check the hospital provides to you and your family.
