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$306,000 Illinois Jury Verdict for Patient Injured by Doctor in Gallbladder...
In November 2008, 26-year-old Heather Hinshaw underwent gallbladder surgery at Trinity Medical Center in Rock Island, Ill. The general surgeon who did the surgery thought he saw a stone in the common...
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Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict for Doctors for In Case Where Patient Died...
Ronald Cobb underwent surgery to insert an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill. When the procedure was completed on Feb. 3, 2009,...
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$6.7 Million Jury Verdict for Failure to Timely Diagnose and Treat Intestinal...
Thomas Jackson, 57, underwent a hernia repair surgery by a general surgeon, the defendant, Dr. Kenneth Goldman. Hours after the surgery, Jackson complained of severe stomach pain. His condition...
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$1.12 Million Jury Verdict Because of Doctor’s Late Diagnosis of Acute...
Andrew Hanson, 49, was injured at his job. He went in to see his family practice physician, Dr. Ronald Davis, who diagnosed a crushed injury to his chest. Hanson then underwent a work-up, which...
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Illinois Jury Enters $1 Million Verdict in Wrongful Death Case
An 11-year-old lawsuit finally came to an end in St. Clair County, Ill., when the jury entered a $1 million verdict for the medical malpractice-wrongful death of 71-year-old Margaret Janet Brown. The...
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$1.75 Million Settlement for Death of Premature Child Dislodged from Ventilator
A 15-month-old child who required 24-hour care as a result of his extreme prematurity was under the care of a home health care nurse. The nurse’s duties included keeping a watchful eye on the child...
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$1 Million Medical Negligence Jury Verdict Where Median Nerve Was Severed...
A Will County, Ill., jury entered a $1,066,000 verdict against an orthopedic surgeon, David Burt, M.D. Virginia Faletti, 82, underwent endoscopic carpal tunnel release surgery on her right wrist at...
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Jury Sides With Doctors in Failure to Diagnose and Treat Aneurysm
Michael Mals, 57, underwent a hip replacement at Lutheran General Hospital on Aug. 14, 2008. He was given Coumadin, a blood thinner, to prevent deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Three days later he was...
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Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict Because...
The plaintiff in this case, Lee Ann Sharbono, filed a lawsuit claiming medical negligence against the defendant Dr. Mark Hilborn, a board-certified radiologist. In the lawsuit it was alleged that Dr....
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Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Dismissal of Medical Negligence Case Based...
A medical malpractice lawsuit was filed by Daniel R. Hemminger, who sued the defendants Jeffrey LeMay, M.D. and Sterling Rock Falls Clinic Ltd. for damages related to the death of his wife, Tina. The...
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Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Section (VBAC); Uterine Scar Rupture- $4 Million...
A 34-year-old patient, Sally Arbogast, underwent a vaginal delivery but experienced sharp abdominal pain and moderate bleeding right afterward. She had delivered her last child by a Cesarean section....
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Alabama Supreme Court Upholds $3.2 Million Medical Malpractice Judgment...
An Alabama medical negligence case that found its way to the state supreme court, arose out of a jury’s verdict in the amount of $3.2 million. The verdict came in favor of the family of Lauree Ellison...
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Cook County Jury Sides with Doctors in Severed Artery in Knee Replacement Trial
Orthopedic surgeon Kris Alden, M.D., performed the right knee replacement surgery on the plaintiff, Lawrence Lapiana, on May 26, 2011. Lapiana had a history of severe osteoarthritis in both knees....
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Illinois Appellate Court Affirms a Defense Verdict in a Medical-Malpractice...
In May 2001, Michael Hamilton was a worker at the Behr Process Corp. plant in Chicago Heights, Ill., when he began experiencing severe pain. He was taken by ambulance to St. James Hospital in Chicago...
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$1.5 Million Cook County Jury Verdict in Patient Death for Delayed Diagnosis...
Guadalupe Ramirez had a history of congestive heart failure. She was also an insulin-dependent diabetic, had mitral valve regurgitation, atrial fibrillation, rheumatic heart disease, high blood...
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$885,000 Cook County Jury Verdict in Misdiagnosed Appendicitis
Karol Stawarz was complaining to his primary care physician, Dr. Victor Forys, about his lower abdominal pain. Dr. Forys diagnosed gastroenteritis and prescribed medicine. He also told Stawarz to...
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Jury Holds for Hospital and Doctor in Claim of Misdiagnosis of Cardiac Disease
On Dec. 29, 2008, Camilla Hayes, 76, came to the emergency room at Rush Oak Park Hospital complaining of abdominal pain. The emergency room doctor, Dr. Joseph DiPiazza, did not order a complete cardiac...
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Extraordinary Damages in Wrongful Birth-Conception Case is Allowed by...
Cynthia and Kenneth Williams’s first child was born with sickle cell anemia. After the birth of their first child, the Williamses found out that they both had the sickle cell trait in which a normal...
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Unsterile Surgical Instruments Leads to Jury Verdict for Patient
Charles Blevins, 63, underwent outpatient arthroscopic knee surgery. Four days after the surgery, Blevins went to a hospital emergency room complaining of fever and a hot and swollen knee. He was...
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$2.23 Million Jury Verdict for Incorrect Cancer Diagnosis
Maria Lastra-Rico was 45 years old when she underwent a breast biopsy. A pathologist interpreted the test as showing invasive ductal carcinoma; she underwent a double mastectomy with lymph node...
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