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Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Do Not Have Harmful Effects on Patient Safety
In a May 16, 2013 New York Times opinion page editorial, written by assistant professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, Joanna C. Schwartz, discussed the Affordable Care Act in...
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Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict for...
The Illinois Appellate Court for the Fourth District reversed a jury’s verdict for defendants, which included OSF Healthcare System, in the Circuit Court of McLean County. The case centered around...
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$215,000 Cook County Jury Verdict for Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment of Hand...
Fifty-year-old Dan Hebel suffered a rope burn while on a fishing trip in August 2004. Eventually he was referred to an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Craig Williams, at Illinois Bone & Joint Institute...
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Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Order Under...
The Illinois Appellate Court reversed a trial judge’s ruling in a medical malpractice case because the judge ruled that the defendants had no right of reduction on the jury’s verdict. In this case,...
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Cook County Verdict for Physicians in Death Related to Improper Care for...
Neal Nuss, age 73, was transported to St. James Hospital in Blue Island, Ill., on Sept. 5, 2006 following an auto accident. Nuss was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with subdural hematoma; he...
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Illinois Jury Verdict for 2.2 Million in First Humira Infection Case
An Illinois jury found that Abbott Laboratories was negligent and ordered it to pay $2,244,063 for an infection suffered by Delores Tietz after she took the rheumatoid arthritis drug, Humira. The Cook...
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Illinois Jury Verdict for Doctors in Bowel Perforation, Sepsis, Death Case
In November 2006, the defendant surgeon, Dr. Hodgett, performed a laparoscopic biopsy on a 72-year-old woman, Mary Backes. The purpose was to diagnose a suspected lymphoma in her retroperitoneal...
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$934,000 Cook County Bench Trial in Failure to Diagnose Rectal Cancer
Joseph Farias, age 29, began treatment with the defendant internist, Yolanda Co, M.D., in February 2002. He came to the doctor with complaints of constipation for three years and rectal bleeding. Dr....
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DePuy Metal-On-Metal Hip Replacement Products Will No Longer Be Produced by...
It was announced in June 2013 that Johnson & Johnson, the maker of many healthcare products, will discontinue the sale of its metal-on-metal hip replacement products. Although these...
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Medical Malpractice Case Shut Down by Plaintiff’s a Late Expert Disclosure
Bozena Smith filed a medical negligence complaint against two doctors who were residents in 2006 when she claims she was injured in postsurgical treatment. After the fact discovery was done by each of...
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Jury Verdict for Stroke Victim after Doctor Chooses Not to Correctly Diagnose...
Jennifer, a 25-year-old student, began experiencing severe headaches and visual disturbances. Several days later she went to a hospital emergency room. She told the ER staff she was not prone to...
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Evolution of Hospital and Physician Relationships Accelerating with the...
The U.S. Department of Labor reports that in 2008 only 12% of doctors were self-employed. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other healthcare reforms, the future of...
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$595,000 Cook County Jury Verdict in Medical Malpractice Foot Amputation Case
Jungie Kim underwent surgery to repair an abdominal aortic aneurysm at Rush Northshore Medical Center on Sept. 24, 2003. Kim was a 55-year-old housewife. The surgery was done by a vascular surgeon,...
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Jury Finds for Hospital and Doctor in Child’s Undiagnosed Meningitis Hearing...
On June 22, 2006, Raymone Bowe, a 10-year-old boy, was brought by his mother to the emergency department at Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago with a sore throat, headache and a history of fever...
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Emergency Medical Team Driver Immune from Negligence in Car Crash
The Illinois Supreme Court has reversed an Illinois Appellate Court ruling concluding that Section 3.150(a) of the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act immunizes an ambulance driver in a...
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$2 Million Verdict in Retried Bellwether Transvaginal Mesh Trial Against C.R....
On July 8, 2013, the U.S. District Court in Charleston, W.Va., started the first bellwether jury trial in the C.R. Bard, Inc. Multidistrict Litigation (MDL). Bard manufactures transvaginal mesh...
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Making Sense of the Electronic Medical Records with the Audit Trail
Continuity of care is paramount in patient healthcare. The goal is always to give the patient the best medical care while at the same time reduce medical errors. For the last 20 years hospitals and...
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Settlement Reached in Wrongful Death of Fifty-Eight-Year-Old Man in Airway...
A confidential settlement was reached with a hospital emergency room and doctors after a 58-year-old man underwent emergency surgery. The man went to the hospital emergency room after dislocating his...
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Medical Device Cases Brightened by Recent U.S. Court of Appeals Decision;...
In a 9th Circuit decision handed down in January 2013, the court of appeals found that the Medical Device Amendments (MDA) to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act were not a wedge to prevent a...
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Undiagnosed Kidney Infection Results in Win for Doctor
Virginia Gettys was admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Highland, Ill., with abdominal pain, abdominal distension and a report of bloody stools. This followed a recent colonoscopy. Gettys was...
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