Medical malpractice claims are among the most demanding cases in civil law. They require expert medical testimony, significant investment and a lawyer who knows California's specific rules for these cases.
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Apollo Law Group is a plaintiff-side law firm headquartered in West Los Angeles that represents individuals in employment, personal injury, workers' compensation, and lemon law matters. The firm works on a contingency basis — no fee unless it recovers for the client — and takes cases nationwide, citing more than 30 years of combined attorney experience. Its employment practice covers wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation and whistleblower claims, wage-and-hour and meal-and-rest disputes, misclassification, and family and medical leave matters; its personal injury practice handles car, truck, motorcycle, and pedestrian collisions, slip-and-fall, catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death. View the Apollo Law Group profile.
What makes these cases different
California's Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA) and related provisions set special rules for medical negligence cases, including limits on certain damages and on attorney fee percentages in some circumstances. Many firms screen malpractice cases carefully because costs are high and not every bad outcome is negligence.
Strict deadlines
Under Code of Civil Procedure section 340.5, suits generally must be filed within three years of the injury or one year after the patient discovered, or should have discovered, the injury, whichever comes first, with limited exceptions. Notice requirements before suing a healthcare provider and short deadlines for claims against government hospitals also apply.
A note on this directory
Our directory currently verifies only one Los Angeles firm that lists medical malpractice as a practice area, the sponsored firm below, so we are not publishing an organic ranking for this category yet. Other firms in the directory list medical malpractice but are based outside California. This guide will be updated as California firms are added.
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