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If a doctor, hospital, or nurse in Memphis injured you through a careless mistake, Tennessee medical-malpractice law (the Health Care Liability Act) may let you recover — but the rules are strict and the clock is short. You have just one year to sue, you must send a pre-suit notice 60 days before filing, and you need a certificate of good faith from a qualified medical expert. The Memphis firms below take these cases on contingency, so you pay nothing unless they win.
Updated May 6, 2026
Medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, wrongful death
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Tennessee gives you one year from the date of injury — or from when you reasonably should have discovered it — to file a medical-malpractice (health care liability) lawsuit. There's also a hard three-year statute of repose: past that, most claims are dead even if you only just found out. Because the discovery rule and these deadlines interact in complicated ways, talk to a Memphis lawyer early rather than late.
The Tennessee Health Care Liability Act adds two gates before you can even file. First, you must give each provider written pre-suit notice at least 60 days before filing. Second, you must attach a certificate of good faith, signed after a qualified medical expert reviews the records and confirms the claim has merit. Skip either step and the case can be dismissed on a technicality, which is why these cases need a firm that does them regularly.
Damages include medical expenses, lost wages, future care needs, and non-economic damages for pain and suffering. Tennessee caps non-economic damages at $750,000, or $1 million in catastrophic-injury cases. Med-mal cases are expensive to bring — expert witnesses alone can run tens of thousands — so reputable Memphis firms front those costs and take a contingency fee, collecting only if you recover.