The average time to settle a medical malpractice claim is 19 months, and cases that go to trial typically take around 43 months when the verdict is in favor of the plaintiff. That amount of time is too long for people whose lives have been disrupted by medical errors and injuries. Studies from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality said in the year 2011 that 1% of the victims die in the USA per year, meaning that from the 35 million plaintiffs need medical treatment each year, we are looking at approximately 400,000 yearly deaths from doctor errors in the United States.  One study found that severe, non-fatal, harm was up to 20 times as common. Between the years 2006 to 2016, over 140,000 payments were made for medical malpractice rand over 400,000 adverser actions were the result of such in which over 60,000 doctors reinstated. In California, Texas, Florida, and New York, with a population of over 107 million people alone were the states with the highest incidents. 

Cases of medical negligence also form a substantial part of all claims brought before the courts, initiated by the claimants who have suffered at the hands of negligent medical practitioners and hospitals in the US. The most common examples of medical negligence involve misdiagnosis of illnesses, prescribing incorrect medications, surgery mistakes, childbirth negligence, and misconduct in anesthesia administration. Victims have also been seen suffering due to emergency room errors and psychiatric and nursing malpractice. 

Unfortunately, with the increasing inflow of cases filed by victims of medical negligence, big hospitals, healthcare providers, and independent practitioners, too, have secured strong legal support from defense attorneys and developed smart strategies to tackle cases of negligence routinely brought against them. They invest heavily in obtaining legal protection and insurance against such claims. As a result, bringing in successful claims against negligence has now become more challenging than ever. Medical practitioners and insurance companies have realized the pressure created by cash-flow problems and the absence of financial assistance upon the plaintiffs. They have thus adopted the strategy of unnecessarily prolonging medical malpractice lawsuits, which allows them to frustrate the plaintiffs lacking any sort of legal support available to them, and compel them to withdraw the case or submit to their terms in the end. Knowing your desperate circumstances, insurance companies will impose on you to agree over a lesser settlement amount for a speedy payout. Plaintiffs tied under mounds of debts or expenses would reluctantly accept to avoid getting knees deep into debts.

In such a prevailing situation, plaintiffs are in dire need of financial backing to sponsor their case. Plaintiffs can either go for legal expenses insurance or state-funded legal aid available exclusively in childbirth negligence cases. They can even benefit immensely from private medical negligence pre-settlement legal funding programs open to the public at large.