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$7 Million Jury Verdict for Delay in Diagnosing Liver Cancer
Glenn Garofano, 63, underwent an ultrasound of his gallbladder, which revealed gallstones and a 4-cm mass on his liver. He then underwent a CT scan, which radiologist Dr. Clifford Barker reported as...
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$435,000 Jury Verdict for Negligent Insertion of IV
Angelica Heavner, 41, went to the hospital emergency room for treatment of jaw and head pain. A hospital employee placed an IV into Heavner’s metacarpal vein on her right hand. The insertion of the IV...
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Illinois Appellate Courts Considers Three Statutes Including that of the...
On Aug. 4, 2011, Jill Prusak filed a medical malpractice case within both the two-year statute of limitation and four-year statute of repose under Section 13-212(a). The lawsuit contained a two-count...
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U.S. District Court Orders Disclosure by Plaintiffs’ Counsel of...
In Illinois it is well-settled law that prohibits defendants and their lawyers from communicating with treating physicians without the consent of the patient. In this case, plaintiffs sued five...
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Jury Finds in Favor of Doctor and Hospital Where Patient Dies of Heart Attack...
Janice Bishop presented to the emergency department at Graham Hospital in Canton, Ill., with complaints of chest pain on July 19, 2010. The emergency room physician ordered an EKG, which demonstrated...
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U.S. District Court Rules on Nonparty Depositions
In this case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were examined closely with respect to a subpoenaed nonparty deposition. The court...
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Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Dismissal of Lawsuit Alleging Wrongful...
The family of Jill Prusak brought a medical malpractice lawsuit against a doctor and two hospitals. Prusak died in November 2013. The lawsuit brought by Sheri Lawler on behalf of the family of Jill...
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$6.3 Million Jury Verdict in the Death of a Patient Who Died After a...
Dwayne Kantorowski underwent surgery to treat a brain tumor. He was just 45 years old, but he later experienced stroke-like symptoms. He promptly went to a hospital emergency room where he underwent an...
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$450,000 Confidential Settlement for Negligent Handling of Surgery to Remove...
A man with impaired cardiac, respiratory and cognitive function was diagnosed as having a benign brain tumor. This was a tumor that — in most cases — could have been safely removed by a neurosurgeon....
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$6.9 Million Jury Verdict for the Medical Malpractice in the Late Diagnosis...
Leanna Loud was 39 years old when she underwent a digital mammogram. The radiologist and defendant, Dr. Jeffrey Short, an employee of Charleston Radiologists, read the mammogram as showing dystrophic...
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Illinois Appellate Court Dismisses Medical Malpractice Complaint Against...
The plaintiff Saleh Mizyed appealed from the trial judge’s order granting summary judgment, which dismissed his medical malpractice complaint against the defendant Palos Community Hospital. The...
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Illinois Supreme Court Expected to Decide Whether Certain Illinois Hospitals...
Not-for-profit hospitals are tax exempt. Seven of the ten most profitable U.S. hospitals are nonprofit, according to new research. One hospital, located in Urbana, Ill., is involved in a contentious...
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Appellate Court Rules That Lawsuit Alleging Failure to Diagnose Injury...
A Georgia Appellate Court has held that a physician who chose not to timely diagnose an injury postoperatively was not the act that began the running of the statute. Instead, the court ruled that the...
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Confidential Settlement Reached for Negligent Prostate Cancer Surgery
Mr. Doe, age 48, was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He underwent laparoscopic bilateral lymph node dissection surgery by two HMO urologists. During this surgery, the obturator nerve was severed, which...
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Harvard Law Record: The Numbers of Civil Trials Are Declining
In a recent article appearing in the Harvard Law Record, the title of the article says it all: “Civil Trials Are Fast Becoming Extinct.” Civil jury trials and bench trials have seen a dramatic decline...
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$975,000 Settlement Reached in Negligent Interpretation of EKG Death Case
John Doe, 48, had a history of hypertension, high cholesterol and smoking. When he experienced shortness of breath and chest tightness, he went to a local hospital emergency room where he underwent an...
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$11.6 Million Jury Verdict in Failure to Correctly Interpret CT Scan and...
Business owner Kevin Orr, 42, went to a hospital emergency room complaining of dizziness, headache and inability to stand. A CT scan, interpreted by the radiologist and defendant, Dr. James Bell,...
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Structured Settlement Reached for the Misdiagnosed Stroke of a 13-Year-Old Boy
Thirteen-year-old Doe became ill and developed a high fever. Doe’s mother brought him to a Kaiser Permanente Urgent Care facility where Doe underwent testing. Before all the tests were returned, Doe...
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Cook County Jury Finds for Physician in Claim of Medical Malpractice For...
Danielle Reardon underwent endoscopic sinus surgery with bilateral septoplasty at Tinley Woods Surgery Center in Tinley Park, Ill., on Dec. 7, 2005. The surgery was completed by the defendant, Dr....
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Illinois Jury Finds in Favor of Surgeon in Case Where the Death of the...
Mary Leemputte came to the emergency room at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Ill., in April 25, 2011. She was admitted to this hospital suffering from severe abdominal pain, urinary...
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