Best Medical Malpractice Attorneys in San Diego, CA

San Diego Personal Injury Attorneys is a medical malpractice and accident firm founded by Deon Goldschmidt. He compiled a 2019 list of California's Top 100 Verdicts. The firm takes negligence claims against doctors, hospitals, and clinics.

Its malpractice cases include:

• Misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis
• Surgical and medication errors
• Birth injuries during labor and delivery
• Elder abuse in care facilities

Attorneys answer calls 24/7, and the staff speaks Spanish. The firm works on contingency, so clients pay no fees unless it wins. It also has offices in San Jose and Riverside.

A $27 million recovery and a $17 million recovery top the record at LiMandri & Jonna LLP. The Rancho Santa Fe firm has tried civil cases for more than three decades. It has also won three Supreme Court cases.

Lead attorney Charles LiMandri belongs to both the American Board of Trial Advocates and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Few San Diego lawyers hold both. He and Paul Jonna came from large national firms.

The team handles medical malpractice, dental malpractice, and wrongful death claims. It also takes insurance bad faith and business disputes. Consultations are free.

Elliott Kanter is a medical malpractice and criminal defense lawyer in San Diego. He has practiced in California since 1981 and has taken more than 150 cases to a jury. Insurers know he will go to trial, which helps at the settlement table.

His top malpractice result is a $4 million settlement for a child born with cerebral palsy. Another delivery-room case settled for $3.8 million. Partial paralysis during a hospital stay brought $3.5 million.

He also handles Kaiser claims, which go through private arbitration instead of court.

Few lawyers are also medical doctors. Ken Sigelman, J.D., M.D., is both, and he uses that training to prove where care went wrong.

His jury verdicts include $30.9 million for a uterine rupture that left a baby with a brain injury. Negligent monitoring after surgery led to a $16.3 million verdict.

Kenneth M Sigelman & Associates also handles anesthesia errors, cancer misdiagnosis, and military medical malpractice. It takes claims against HMOs and federal health providers too.

Nakase Law Firm is a California business and employment practice with offices across the state. Attorney Brad Nakase was named Litigator of the Year in 2020.

Its injury team handles car, truck, and pedestrian crashes, plus spinal cord and brain injuries. The firm also takes sexual assault cases against doctors. Staff members speak Spanish.

Preventive law is the focus at Mulligan Law. Janice F. Mulligan helps health care and tech clients spot legal problems before they become lawsuits. Her work covers privacy, AI, telehealth, and big health data.

She built the practice on decades of trial work in state and federal courts. She also serves as an expert witness and speaker on health care law.

Coughlan & Vinel, LLP is a Solana Beach injury firm led by Ben Coughlan and Kacie Vinel. Its medical negligence cases include missed diagnoses, surgical mistakes, and wrong medications.

The team also handles birth injuries and claims for failing to warn patients of treatment risks. Beyond malpractice, it takes brain injury, toxic tort, and sexual abuse cases.

A $25.3 million recovery for a brain-injured child leads the results at Vaage Law. It came from one of over 30 Kaiser arbitrations Bob Vaage has handled. He also won an $18 million jury verdict after a surgical error.

The firm has represented injury victims since 1992 and has recovered more than $190 million. Best Lawyers named Vaage the 2017 Personal Injury Litigation Lawyer of the Year in San Diego. The boutique practice limits its caseload and pursues medical fraud claims against doctors and device makers.

Brian Burchett spent five years defending insurance companies before he switched sides. He has handled medical negligence and injury claims for more than three decades.

At The Burchett Law Firm, PC, clients work with him, not junior lawyers. His malpractice work includes childbirth errors and misread MRI or CT scans. He also represents people hurt in serious vehicle crashes.

Cynthia Chihak has won the Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award from the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego eight times. Her team calls itself trial lawyers, not settlement lawyers.

Results include a $10 million wrongful birth settlement and $2 million for a delayed bladder cancer diagnosis. Chihak & Associates takes every case on a contingency fee.

Denning Moores, APC is a boutique litigation firm run by Christina Denning and Natalie Moores. Its plaintiff work covers medical and dental malpractice, elder abuse, and police misconduct. It also handles business and construction disputes.

David A. Kaufman runs his La Jolla practice with no layers of assistants between him and clients. He takes medical malpractice, car crash, premises liability, and employment cases. A second office sits in downtown San Diego.