Kovácsy Zsombor Law Firm

MALPRACTICE

Patient or healthcare provider representation

Worse health care output than desired may be a result of several causes - even due procedures can fail. In case of such negative consequences, representing either the patient or the healthcare provider, preliminary examination of the incidence has to be performed both from legal and from medical aspect in order to get answers to the following major questions:

Has a real failure happened during the care or information provision?
If yes, is that failure related to any health condition or decease of the patient?
To whom and what kind of damage or damnification was caused by the failure and of what measure?

A decision on the co-operation and the optimal way of claim enforcement can be made upon an estimation of costs and possible results.

HEALTH INDUSTRY

Production, distribution, marketing, market competition, insurance coverage. Single issues, projects, audit or permanent counselling.

Pharmaceuticals
Medical devices/Medical aids
Food supplements
Health related products of questionned category
Sponsorship, events
Informing and advertising brochures to professionals and consumers

INSTITUTES

Whatever a healthcare provider may need

First steps towards opening the business
Licenses, partnership contracts, background co-operations, supplier contracts, labour agreements
Healthcare-specific internal regulations
Documentation of informed consent
Supervision by Authorities, Ethical bodies and Insurance companies, legal disputes
Goodwill protection
International service provision co-operations
Complex legal-strategic counselling, representation at the Courts

INNOVATION

Legal background of health developments of the XXIst Century – data protection, licenses, contracts

Research, clinical trials – legal support for all the actors
Telemedicine, smart devices and other IT based healthcare, health industry solutions
Health related databases
IT based commercial projects
Cover-all legislative analyses including international experiences and law making proposals in unregulated or behind-the-times health care areas

CONTRACTING WITH THE LAW FIRM

Most effective way of approach is sending an email but also phone calls and telephone messages are answered as soon as possible.

All substantial activities are performed by the Chief Attorney. In extraordinary case of his absence, adequate substitution is arranged. Should different specific knowledge applied for a case, such as legislation of another country, informatics etc., further expert can be involved upon the consent of the Client.

PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

After making the contact discussion and evaluation of the case is the first step. This can happen personally or via email (considering the data protection prescriptions). This preliminary consultation is free of charge. If the parties decide to co-operate, the mandate is arranged in a written contract.

In case of medical malpractice cases the representation of the patient (or relative) is affordable only if the success views are realistic and the predictable costs are not disproportionate.

It is important to take into consideration that unlike medical procedures which often have to be performed within minutes or hours, legal actions may last for several months or years: a lot of patience is needed from the side of the claimant.

COMPANIES & INSTITUTES

We are ready to provide assistance in the forms of single consultation, solution of a circumscribed problem, representation at the Courts, audit, training, legal support for commercial, research or other projects or permanent legal-strategic counseling. A preliminary consultation is necessary also in these cases in order to understand the needs of the Client, the nature of task and the resources needed which can be followed by the agreement on the co-operation details. The first consultation – except when the intention of the Client is to have a single occasion of counseling – is free of charge for Companies and Institutes, as well.

If the Client already has another legal representative, a second co-operation can be formed only upon the consultation with and approval by this first lawyer – with highest consideration of ethical requirements of the attorneys’ profession.

CHIEF ATTORNEY

Zsombor Kovacsy JD, MD
Doctor Juris & Medicinae, Health Care Manager, Legal Specialist in Health Care Law and Law Making

Following two years of hospital residency from 1998 to 2007 he served as civil servant in several positions at the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Justice. Among these, in 2006-2007 he was Deputy Secretary of State for Legal and International Issues at the Ministry of Health. Between 2007 and 2009 he served as the founding President of the Health Insurance Supervisory Authority.After his resignation in 2009 he founded the Law Firm.

He had and still has numerous national and international positions: he was the Chair of the National Managed Care Pilot Project Supervisory Board, Chair of the Financing System Refining Commission, member of the National Council of Statistics, Hungarian delegate to the Better Regulation High Level Expert Group (EC), and the related OECD working group. He is Honorary Professor of Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences (Budapest) and founding member of the Central and Eastern European Health Policy Network (www.ceehpn.eu)

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