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Day In The Life, Video Settlement Brochure, Legal Strategy Firm Welcomes New ...

BOCA RATON, FL (AttorneyNewswire.com) — August 3, 2011 — ColtonCreative, the national  leader in Day In The Life , Video Settlement Brochure , and Demand Package production, and ColtonStrategy, the leader in Crisis and Corporate Communication, welcome several new clients for litigation services. While the clients remain confidential, they represent litigation valued at tens of millions of dollars in the northeast, midwest, and south eastern United States.

“We continue to be humbled that the major law firms nationwide rely on our communication and journalistic expertise to assist in case strategy, and production of high-end video documentaries used in high value cases,” said Andrew Colton, a former award winning ABC News National Correspondent and president of ColtonCreative LLC.

ColtonCreative produces network news quality documentaries used in medical malpractice, police misconduct, personal injury, traumatic brain injury, products liability, and wrongful death cases. The documentaries routinely assist attorneys in reaching record and landmark settlements. ColtonCreative produced the Abbey Taylor video documenting the life and death of the young girl eviscerated by a malfunctioning pool drain at a Minneapolis country club. That video is now used world wide for pool safety training.

“As the economy remains in a difficult place,” said Colton, “we are finding that attorneys are more interested in settling cases than incurring the expense of trial. Our productions routinely help attorneys do just that, through smart writing, high production value, and professional story telling. We make it clear that there is no other side to the story.”

For more information, please visit ColtonCreative.com, and ColtonStrategy.com , or telephone 1-877-484-4611.

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Medical Malpractice Cases in Boca Raton, FL | Boca Raton ...

When you go to the hospital or see your physician, there is an unspoken social bond that your doctor will, at the very least, “do no harm.” While the medical professionals in America are among the best in the world, there are exceptions. Sometimes bad things happen in a doctor’s examination room, an emergency room, or during a surgical procedure. This has called for caps on medical malpractice case awards, dating back to the Clinton administration. While considered by some as get rich schemes, the reality is that medical malpractice lawsuits help patients recover damages when something goes horribly wrong. Whether or not an incident is treated as malpractice is a function of the local (usually county, but sometimes state) medical malpractice board, which is made up of physicians.

Medical malpractice cases need to establish what the expected standard of care is for a procedure.   This is a benchmark that relies on both knowledge of the current practice of the procedure in question, and the education of that procedure by the medical malpractice board.

Should the incident in question be determined to be below the expected standard of care for the procedure and facilities, most malpractice boards will award some sort of compensation for pain and suffering, loss of quality of life and/or wrongful death. There are statutes of limitations on how long after the incident a patient can file a malpractice claim. Medical malpractice cases are also time consuming and costly – they require expert witnesses, and the attorney must access all medical records for their clients (this can take months).

Because most medical malpractice cases are taken on contingency, there may be cases where it’s difficult or impossible to find representation, even if the case has merits.

Contingency payment is meant to keep attorneys from taking advantage of their clients, but ‘winability’ is an important consideration in medical malpractice lawsuits.

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