Kenichi Tanaka writes "Back in November 2010, my dad was involved in a car accident that resulted in some serious injuries. While he's be in and out of the hospital since November, he has recently passed away at the age of 69. Now, we have two area hospitals where we live and we never wanted him sent to this one particular hospital, which he was sent to, anyway. The problem is that the first hospital neglected to run any MRI scans on his brain for any head trauma, despite the seriousness of the accident and even the second hospital neglected to do any scans of his brain until about two weeks ago. Bear in mind that he had been in and out of the second hospital, which is where we wanted him sent to anyway, since December/January and that the cancer that had infected his body and his brain was in Stage 4, it had metastasized, and that every one of us were told that he would have 4-6 months to live. He passed away within two weeks of us hearing about this cancer.
The question my family has, is do we have a legitimate claim for medical malpractice since neither hospital detected it until just recently? Bear in mind, also, that my dad has been in and out of both of these hospitals over the past decade for various surgeries, including leg and re-constructive knee surgery."