Illinois House Bill Fails to Gain Traction as to Nurse-Staffing Ratios in...
A proposed Illinois law would limit the number of patients each hospital nurse would be allowed to care for at one time. The proposed legislation was based on a national survey, which suggested that...
View Article$2.35 Million Settlement for the Death Caused by Failure to Diagnose and...
Jonathan Rabkin, 53, went to a hospital emergency room complaining of the sudden onset of upper abdominal pain radiating to his back. The attending emergency room physician, Dr. Vikram Varma, ordered a...
View Article$300,000 Settlement for Wrongful Death of Patient Who Died from the Failure...
Michelle Phibbs, 29, had a history of mental illness. She was admitted to Heartland Behavioral Healthcare, a state-run psychiatric hospital, for an inpatient stay after experiencing difficulty...
View ArticleSt. Jude Heart Device Maker Fights Back Against Reports Linked to Deaths and...
A problem has developed with the St. Jude implanted heart device: A wire or lead that connects a defibrillator to a patient’s heart has been failing, often with fatal results. The lead, a model called...
View ArticleKane County Jury Verdict for Paraplegia — $4.752M
T.S., a 55-year-old male, was hospitalized at Provena St. Joseph Hospital from April 9 to April 15, 2005, and received outpatient care from April 18 to April 28, 2005. He complained of back pain to...
View ArticleU.S. Court of Appeals Confirms Dismissal of Medical Malpractice Lawsuit...
Dennis Davis, an Illinois prisoner suffering from kidney disease, received dialysis on a Saturday. He later told the prison nurse that his mind was fuzzy and his body was weak. Both of these complaints...
View ArticleState Supreme Court Affirms Jury Verdict for Defendants Where the Issue is...
In a medical malpractice lawsuit, the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the judgment against the plaintiffs following a jury verdict in favor of the defendants. The state’s high court held that the...
View ArticleParents Awarded $2.68 Million in Son’s Death Following Misdiagnosis
The parents of a 22-year-old man were awarded $2.68 million by a jury after their son died when a hospitalist at Columbia Medical Center of Arlington, Texas, failed to order a CT scan and surgery to...
View Article$3.5 Million Jury Verdict for Patient Death Where Medical Center Failed to...
David Scheer, the father of Matthew Scheer, drove his son to the emergency room at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center because David noticed that his son had added some disturbing posts on social...
View Article$1.6 Million for Injuries to Patient Caused by Negligence of Chiropractor
A Peoria County, Ill., jury signed a verdict for more than $1.6 million for injuries caused to a young woman, Peyton Heathcoat caused by a chiropractor’s negligence. Heathcoat underwent manipulation to...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Affirms $1.6 Million Jury Verdict in Wrongful Death,...
Angela L. McIntyre, as independent administrator of the estate of Donald R. McIntyre Jr., filed a medical malpractice case alleging that her late husband was negligently treated while he was a patient...
View ArticlePatient Dies Two Days Following Hip Surgery; Jury Reaches Not Guilty Verdict
A jury reached a not guilty verdict against defendant Dr. Glenn A. Woudenberg, Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, Vanguard Health Systems and MN Anesthesia LLC in the death of a steelworker who...
View ArticleStudy: “Medical Food” Could Cause Liver Disease
A “medical food” called Limbrel, which doctors prescribe to treat osteoarthritis of the knee, has been linked to several cases of liver disease in a small study. The effects seem to be rare and easily...
View ArticleHospital, Doctor Pay $12 Million to Care for Child with Brain Damage
A hospital and doctor have agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed by an Indiana mother whose baby sustained permanent brain damage during child birth in 2002. The mother, K.C., on behalf...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Reverses Cook County Judge’s Order As to Disclosure...
Jeff Sparger, on behalf of his daughter, sued the University of Chicago Medical Center and Dr. Bakhtiar Yamini, alleging that the doctor’s negligence in repairing a spinal fluid leak caused his...
View ArticleIllinois Appellate Court Affirms Defendant-Physician’s Motion for Directed...
The Illinois Appellate Court rejected a claim by the plaintiff, Ludgardo R. Castillo, that expert testimony was required only to establish the applicable standard of care. Also, the trial court did not...
View ArticleJury Awards $125,000 for Toxic Dose of Lithium
The patient-physician relationship is built on trust — the patient trusts that his or her doctor is acting within the standard of care and the physician trusts that the patient is following orders. In...
View ArticleJury Awards Large Payment to Brain-Damaged Woman in New York
Often we hear about large awards paid to patients who were injured in hospitals or other health care facilities. An unusually large award was announced in the case of a brain-damaged woman. It is...
View Article$12.25 Million Jury Verdict in Misdiagnosis and Negligent Examination of...
Rickie Lee Huitt, 65, consulted a urologist at The Iowa Clinic after receiving his prostate cancer screening results. The urologist ordered a biopsy, which was sent to the clinic’s anatomical...
View Article$24.5 Million Jury Verdict in Wrongful Death in Failure to Treat Placenta...
Lilia Torres, 34, began spotting during the eighth week of her pregnancy. She went to a hospital where she had an ultrasound. She later followed up with her treating obstetrician after receiving a...
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