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Cook County Jury Finds For Doctor in Head Trauma Medical Negligence Case
On Feb. 13, 2008, Richard Potrawski was taken by ambulance to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Ill., after suffering a head injury during a slip and fall on ice. Mr. Potrawski was...
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25,000 Transvaginal Mesh (TVM) Cases are Pending in Multidistrict Litigation...
A recent count showed that more than 25,000 transvaginal mesh cases are pending in the Southern District of West Virginia. These cases involve the vaginal mesh manufacturers C.R. Bard, Inc., American...
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Settlement Reached After Deadlocked Jury in Patient Suicide
Anthony Imparato Sr. arrived at the University of Chicago’s emergency room on March 27, 2005. It was the one-year anniversary of his wife’s death. He complained of insomnia for five days,...
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Cook County Jury Sides with Family of Deceased in Medical Malpractice Case...
A Cook County jury returned a verdict of $314,000 related to the death of John Alexander. Mr. Alexander was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2002. A CT scan in 2006 showed evidence of a recurrence of...
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$600,000 Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict for Leg Amputation
Nereida Sepulveda was an 80-year-old retiree who underwent a bilateral knee replacement surgery at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center on Nov. 9, 2009. The surgery was performed by an orthopedic...
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Actos Trials Under Way in Illinois; Juries in California and Maryland Reach...
There are more than 2,000 cases filed in the Actos Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) pending before a United States District Court judge in the Western District of Louisiana. The Actos MDL bellwether...
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Lawsuit About Clearing Patient for Hip Surgery Ends in Defense Verdict
On May 27, 2005, Dennis Swallow came to the office of the defendant internist, Dr. Bryan Moline, for preoperative clearance for an upcoming orthopedic hip surgery. Swallow was 51 years old at the...
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Medical Malpractice Amputation Case Barred by Timeliness Under the Federal...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago has affirmed a district court’s order dismissing a medical negligence case brought against the Department of Veteran Affairs. Jerome...
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$4.51 Million Jury Verdict for Untimely Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiac...
Janelle Jones, 57, underwent a cardiac catherization at Medical Center of Southeast Texas. Jones complained of chest pain before she was discharged. She underwent some testing. Jones was told to...
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Cook County Jury Verdict for Hospital and Doctor in Failure to Hospitalize...
Danute Paulaviciene, 57, came to the office of the defendant internist, Dr. Edmund Vizinas, on Dec. 27, 2008 complaining of fever, shortness of breath and poor sleep. She had recently visited the...
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Cook County Jury Verdict for Hospital in Paraplegic Spinal Surgery Case
A Cook County jury has decided that Northwestern Memorial Hospital was not negligent after a back surgery on 83-year-old JoAnn Smith went wrong. On Aug. 5, 2010, Smith underwent an L4-5...
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$38.61 Million Jury Verdict in Misdiagnosis of Stroke
Kody Myrick, 17, suddenly slumped over at his job and had difficulty speaking. He was brought to Bakersfield Memorial Hospital’s emergency department. A nurse there made note of a possible stroke....
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$1.6 Million Jury Verdict for Fatal Brain Trauma in Hospital Room
South Korean immigrant Young Bahng, 60, was admitted to the University of Chicago Hospital on April 18, 2006. He was there to undergo a live-donor liver transplant from his son. Bahng was...
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Metal-On-Metal Hip Implants Enter the Marketplace Without Sufficient Clinical...
It has been reported that the medical devices that pose the greatest safety risk to patients, including the metal-on-metal hip implants, are allowed into the marketplace without sufficient evaluation...
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Medical Malpractice Injuries is the Problem, Not Litigation
It is estimated that 250,000 people die each year in the United States as a result of medical malpractice according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Approximately 80,000 Medicare...
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Hand Written Paper Medical Records Give Way to Electronically Recorded Doctor...
Medical records in doctor’s offices and hospitals are transitioning or have already transitioned to electronic medical records (EMR). In fact, the HITECH Act (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
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Actos Trials Under Way in Illinois; Juries in California and Maryland Reach...
There are more than 2,000 cases filed in the Actos Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) pending before a United States District Court judge in the Western District of Louisiana. The Actos MDL bellwether...
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$2.5 Million Settlement for Doctor’s Failure to Follow Up on Signs and...
A confidential settlement was reached wherein a 63-year-old woman’s misdiagnosed lung cancer led to her untimely death. The woman, identified only as Doe, underwent a CT scan while she was...
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Illinois Jury Finds for Radiologist in Missed Brain Mass in CT Scan
In September 2007, 55-year-old Barbara Ann Drebek-Doyle underwent a CT scan of the sinuses due to her recurrent sinusitis condition. The test was performed at Advocate Condell Gurnee Outpatient...
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$2.1 Million Cook County Jury Verdict After Doctor’s Failure to Diagnose...
Tony Love, 13, came through the emergency department at Ingalls Memorial Hospital complaining of left knee pain and a fever on Sept. 23, 2007. He was diagnosed with a quadriceps strain and was sent...
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