Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice-Wrongful Death Verdict...
The Illinois Appellate Court for the 2nd District issued a Supreme Court Rule 23 Order in July 2017 that affirmed the jury’s finding in favor of Advocate Condell Medical Center in a medical malpractice...
View Article$8 Million Jury Verdict: Patient Left with Left-Sided Paralysis and Cognitive...
Graciela Gomez McCallum was diagnosed as having cardiomyopathy and atrial fibrillation for which she was prescribed Coumadin therapy and placed with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). She...
View Article$2 Million Jury Verdict for Injured Patient Caused by Misplacement of...
Lynne Niemynski, 63, suffered from stress incontinence. She saw Dr. Arthur Thorpe Jr. a gynecologist, who recommended a transobturator urethral sling to improve her condition. She underwent this...
View Article$100,000 Cook County Jury Verdict for Late Diagnosis of Infection
Russell Kazda, 50, developed a splinter wound in his right pinky finger. A hand specialist, Dr. James Schlenker, performed a surgical procedure to remove the splinter. In doing so, Dr. Schlenker opened...
View ArticleCook County Jury Sides with Hospital in Misdiagnosed Brain Aneurysm Medical...
Rebecca Gaither was transported by ambulance to West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park, Ill., on Nov. 27, 2012 with complaints of rear lower head pain and vision loss in her right eye. At the emergency...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Prevents Out-of-State Resident Plaintiffs from Joining...
The U.S. Supreme Court has prevented 592 nonresidents from joining 86 California residents in suing Bristol-Myers Squibb in California state court for personal injury allegedly caused by Plavix, a...
View ArticleFederal District Court Rules that Injured Plaintiffs Treating Physician Was...
During the discovery process in the case of Toni M. Morrison’s personal-injury lawsuit against Walmart, the company argued that she had to provide a written report from her treating physician, Dr....
View ArticleThe Timing of Giving Antibiotics Proved to be Critical in Sepsis Diagnosis...
According to a report in Modern Healthcare, the University of Colorado Health and its flagship hospital, University of Colorado Hospital, reduced the sepsis mortality rate by 15% in less than one year....
View Article$2.51 Million Jury Verdict for Negligent Cardiology Care and Wrongful Death
Robert Dardenne experienced chest pain. With that symptom he went to a nearby hospital emergency department where the cardiologist on his case, Dr. Vibhuti Singh, ordered testing and observation at the...
View ArticleU.S. Court of Appeals Affirms District Court Judge’s Decision that...
Philip Madden suffered from numerous medical conditions including obesity, respiratory acidosis, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, obstructive sleep apnea, obesity...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Finds that Examining Physician Held Out as Expert is...
In a medical malpractice case brought against an expert witness who was alleged to have misdiagnosed the plaintiff in a prior malpractice case, Philip W. Sandler sued Jerry J. Sweet, Ph.D., a clinical...
View Article$4.75 Million Settlement in Failure to Diagnose Stomach Cancer
Galina Volodina, a 42-year-old breast cancer survivor, complained of gastrointestinal pain. She underwent a stomach biopsy, which pathologist Dr. Kanta Davessar reported as being benign. About 14...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Affirms Appellate Court Allowing Added Count to Complaint
In October 2016, we reported about this important case on the Illinois law on relation-back and how it applies in a medical malpractice lawsuit. In the underlying case of Sheri Lawler, as administrator...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Reverses Jury’s Verdict of Defendant in Medical...
In this medical malpractice lawsuit, injuries were suffered by the plaintiff, Lisa Swift, during a 2010 laparoscopic hysterectomy by the defendant Dr. David J. Schleicher. During this surgical...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Affirms $7.9 Million Medical Malpractice Lawsuit...
The Illinois Appellate Court affirmed a jury’s $7.9 million general verdict against a physician, Dr. Yasser Alhaj-Hussein, who did a celiac plexus block procedure on one of his patients, Kathy Arient....
View Article$5.2 Million Jury Verdict for Late Diagnosis of Cauda Equina Syndrome
Nicole Hill was 33 years old when she went to the hospital emergency room complaining of acute lower back pain, as well as hip and leg pain. An emergency department doctor prescribed pain medication...
View Article$8.5 Million Jury Verdict for the Permanent Injury to Patient’s Urethra...
Matthew Hipps, 44, was to undergo abdominal surgery, which required stenting of his urethra. He consented to having the catherization done by the head of the urology department at Virginia Mason...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Reverses Trial Court’s Entry of Judgment Based on...
In an unfortunate suicide by Keith Stanphill, a lawsuit was brought by Zachary Stanphill against a social worker, Lori Ortberg, and the hospital with which she was affiliated. She saw Keith Stanphill...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Rules That Amended Complaint in Medical Malpractice...
The Illinois Appellate Court has ruled that Judith Simpkins’s amended complaint against St. Elizabeth’s Hospital was not timed-barred. The Illinois Appellate Court denounced discovery that includes the...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Bars Medical Expert in Wrongful Death Lawsuit
This lawsuit arose out of a wrongful-death and medical malpractice case brought by the plaintiff, Lawanda Freeman. She was the special administrator of the estate of her deceased husband, Terrance...
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