Florida Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Medical malpractice doesn't mean a bad outcome — medicine has risks even when done right. It means a provider fell below the prevailing professional standard of care — what a reasonably careful provider would have done — and that failure caused harm: the missed diagnosis, the surgical error, the medication mistake, the ignored warning sign, the birth injury that competent care would have prevented.

Florida makes these cases procedurally brutal by design. Before you can even file suit, Chapter 766 requires a presuit investigation, a corroborating affidavit from a qualified medical expert, formal notice to every defendant, and a 90-day presuit resolution period. The filing deadline is generally two years from when the malpractice was or should have been discovered, with an outer repose limit of four years that can extinguish claims regardless of discovery (with narrow exceptions, including for fraud and young children). Each step has traps that end cases before they begin.

That's why the single most important decision in a malpractice case is calling counsel early — while records can be gathered, experts engaged, and every deadline protected. Shiner Law Group handles that process statewide. You pay nothing unless we win.