Angela T. Vagotis

Entrusting loved ones in the care of a nursing home or long-term care facility is often frightening and filled with uncertainties. Although you try to select an Akron or Canton, Ohio facility that maintains a reputation for quality care, many times elderly patients suffer from nursing home neglect or nursing home injuries in these facilities.

There are certain types of injuries, which occur during labor and delivery that may be preventable with proper medical care. Many times birth injuries occur due to a difficult labor and delivery or in instances where a mother has experienced gestational diabetes, preeclampsia or pre-term labor.

Certain birth injuries, including Cerebral Palsy, Erb's Palsy resulting from shoulder dystocia, and other forms of brain injury, may be preventable and are usually discovered at birth.In some instances, birth injuries may be not recognized until later, when a child is failing to meet his or her developmental milestones.

Medical malpractice attorney, Angela Vagotis, serves clients in Akron and Canton, Ohio who have experienced medical or surgical errors. An organ being damaged during surgery, such as a ureter or bile duct during a gallbladder procedure. Injury arising from the use of the DaVinci Robotic technique and other robotic surgery techniques.

Failure to diagnose a person's medical problem can often cause one to suffer physical and sometimes permanent life altering injuries. When a pathology slide is not read properly and as a result cancer goes undetected and untreated. Failure to diagnose a patient's symptoms of a heart attack in an emergency room or doctor's office, allowing a heart attack to go untreated for too long.

Whether you've experienced an automobile accident, a semi-truck accident or a slip and fall accident, it can be a very emotional time. In addition to the injuries you've sustained, you must also decide whether you will pursue an accident claim with a personal injury attorney. If you're dealing with the death of a loved one due to an accident, it can be a particularly difficult time for your family.