Medical Defence
Medical defence is at the heart of what we do at Panetta McGrath.
We defend medical and health practitioners of all specialties, public and private hospitals and aged health care providers against medical negligence and other personal injury claims.
Medical defence advice and understanding
We know just how challenging medical defence matters are, and what’s at risk for everyone involved – not only are they stressful and demanding, their outcomes can have a significant impact on all the individuals concerned.
Our goal is always to achieve the optimum outcomes, while being careful to maintain the integrity and professionalism of the individuals and organisations we support through the litigation process.
To achieve this, we work alongside our clients, providing sound advice that draws on our significant medical defence experience.
True medical defence expertise
With our lawyers’ medical defence experience and comprehensive knowledge of health and medical law, we have enormous medico-legal expertise.
We have acted in high profile and high value medical negligence claims involving every field of health, including neurological, spinal and orthopaedic, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, paediatric and dental. We have extensive experience in dealing with the most complex birth injury and wrongful birth claims.
Our work often involves advising on complex causation of injuries issues and difficult assessments of damages.
And we have attended hundreds of pre-trial conferences and mediations. We take matters to trial, when necessary.
Medical defence services
As genuine medical defence legal experts, we have and can provide specialist advice on:
- Defence of medical negligence litigation across all specialties, including catastrophic and other significant bodily injury claims
- Advice and representation in disciplinary and regulatory matters across a range of health professions and vocational bodies
- Advice and representation at Coroners’ inquiries and inquests
- General advisory work on all health law issues