All professionals – including doctors, nurses, engineers, accountants, and architects – have a duty to serve their clients well and in an ethical manner. When professionals don’t adhere to this duty, they should be held responsible for the losses inflicted upon their patients or clients. At Varcadipane & Pinnisi, P.C., our New Jersey professional malpractice lawyer represents and counsels those who have been harmed by professional malpractice.
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Professionals are categorized as individuals who hold themselves as having specialized knowledge in a particular field. When a professional breaches their duty of care and their actions result in harm to a patient or client, the professional has committed malpractice. As such, they can be held liable to pay damages for whatever harm they caused.
A successful malpractice case includes the professional failing to meet the expected standard of care for their profession, making detrimental errors because of their negligence, or participating in deliberate behavior that harms clients or patients. Professional malpractice is incompetent, negligent, or wrongful conduct that causes injury or harm.

Professional malpractice can arise in numerous professional fields and can include:
Whenever a licensed professional or expert is involved, the potential for professional negligence exists.
This common type of professional malpractice causes severe harm and can possibly result in death. In fact, medical negligence is the third leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., killing an average of 200,000 people each year. When patients go to the hospital or to see their doctor, they do so to try to stabilize or improve their health. Yet, when doctors or other medical professionals fail to use the expected standard of care and cause severe harm to the patient, they can be found liable for medical malpractice.
Examples of specific types of medical malpractice include:
In some instances, a hospital can be held liable for malpractice either vicariously or directly. A hospital has vicarious liability for the negligence of the healthcare professionals it employs. Direct malpractice occurs when the hospital itself has committed malpractice. Direct hospital malpractice examples include the following:
The statute of limitations for your personal injury case is 2 years. Exceeding it can severely limit or completely invalidate your legal options for seeking compensation. Act swiftly to ensure your rights are preserved and explore your legal recourse before time runs out, otherwise, the likelihood of pursuing your case successfully may diminish considerably. However, if your claim is against a public entity, your timeframe can be significantly shorter.
Professional negligence claims have inherent and unique challenges. It’s common for emotions to run high as your trust has been violated. During this challenging time, representation from a New York or New Jersey professional malpractice lawyer skilled in analysis, communication, and presentation is essential. We have the resources and knowledge to identify and retain experts who have the professional reputation and integrity to critique another member of their profession.
Call Varcadipane & Pinnisi, P.C. at 800-616-2916 or contact us online to receive your no-obligation case review with experienced New Jersey professional malpractice lawyers and find out more about how we can help.
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This page has been written, edited, and reviewed by a team of legal writers following our comprehensive editorial guidelines. This page was approved by Founding Partners, Jeffrey W. Varcadipane & Dawn M. Pinnisi, with more than 40 years of combined legal experience as personal injury attorneys.
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