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Dialysis Patient Dies Because of Overloaded Fluids
Katherine Crawford was admitted to Westlake Community Hospital for shortness of breath and hypotension following an arterial venous fistula repair surgery of Sept. 17, 2005. She was 38 years old and...
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$500,000 Cook County Jury Verdict for Death of Patient from Infected Bedsores
Ethel Bolton had been a resident of Glenshire Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Richton Park, Ill. She was there from 2001 until 2006. During the years 2004 through 2006, she was cared for by...
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Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Grant of Motion for Directed Verdict in...
In this medical malpractice case, plaintiff Daniel Hemminger sued defendants Jeffrey LeMay, M.D., and his medical practice for damages related to the death of Hemminger’s wife, Tina. The lawsuit...
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$2.5 Million Jury Verdict in Medical Negligence Case Where Death Was...
Walter Mankowski was diagnosed with Stage IV gastric carcinoma that had spread to his liver. Mankowski was 63 years old on March 3, 2009 when he was given that poor outlook diagnosis. His treating...
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$2.25 Million Settlement when Hospital Chooses Not to Send Patient to...
A confidential settlement was reached with a physician for the injuries suffered by a patient after the physician neglected to rush the patient to a hospital. The 44-year-old woman patient suffered...
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$425,000 Cook County Jury Verdict Where Surgery Took Place in Spite of...
Louis Davlantis, 58, underwent a left hip replacement. The orthopedic surgeon who did the surgery treated him for an infection the following month. He then followed up with primary care physician,...
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The Issue of Saying Sorry by Doctors and Others Is Not Always an Admission of...
A Tuesday, July 15, 2014 a story in the Science section of the New York Times covered the circumstances in which doctors are faced with a dilemma in practice. They are reluctant to say to a patient or...
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Coronary Bypass Surgery Claimed to be Unnecessary; Trial Ends with Deadlocked...
A Cook County jury was deadlocked after four days of deliberation in a case in which the plaintiff claimed she underwent an unnecessary coronary bypass surgery. Maryann Giannetti was 52 years old when...
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Morphine Overdose Causes Death of Hospital Patient
A 65-year-old woman, we’ll call her Ms. Doe, underwent a successful elective surgery at a California hospital and was later transferred to a private room. The woman was stable by midnight that day, but...
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$640,000 Jury Verdict for Late Diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Linda Lawson, 55, underwent a CT scan of her thoracic spine after she was experiencing leg and lower back pain. The scan was reported as being benign. Lawson’s symptoms continued and she had a lumbar...
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Doctors Found Negligent for Choosing Not To Timely Address Neurological...
Butch Borden, 51, underwent lower back surgery by neurosurgeon Dr. Tom Staner. While Borden was recuperating, he developed weakness and sensory deficits in his legs. Dr. Staner instructed Borden to go...
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Jury is Deadlocked After Trial in Cardiac Death Claimed Due to Improper...
A jury deliberated 12 hours over two days before it was deadlocked, unable to reach a verdict by unanimous consent. The jury was deadlocked 8-4 or 7-5 in favor of the defendant Dr. Ian J. Goldberg....
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Epidural Steroid Injection Causes Infection, Chronic Pain and Eventually Suicide
Joel Burnette was just 40 years old with bipolar disorder and other mental health issues. He underwent a lumbar epidural steroid injection at a pain clinic to combat his back pain. The following week...
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Undiagnosed Bowel Obstruction Leads to Death and $2.4 Million Jury Verdict
On March 10, 2007, Ramona Sue Yates was a patient in the emergency room at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale, Ill. She complained of severe back and abdominal pain. The defendant, emergency room...
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Illinois Appellate Court Finds That Without an Objection by a Party to the...
Robert Cruz filed a lawsuit alleging medical negligence against Dr. Robert R. Schenk and Hand Surgery Ltd., his medical practice, claiming that Dr. Schenk had chosen not to follow the standard of care....
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Illinois Appellate Court Bars Legal Malpractice Case Because of the Filing...
The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed a decision of a Cook County circuit court judge dismissing a legal malpractice case because of the running of the statute of limitations barred the plaintiff...
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$5.7 Million Settlement at Mediation for Mother who Suffered Hypoxic Brain...
Ms. Doe, 17, experienced back and abdominal pain in her 34th week of the pregnancy. She was admitted to a local hospital where her condition deteriorated over the next several days. Ms. Doe was then...
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$630,000 Settlement for Damage to Uninjured Left Leg Because of Failure to...
Ms. Doe, 33, was injured in a car accident. She underwent leg surgery after the car crash. Her uninjured left leg was kept in the hemilithotomy position for more than six hours. While the injured leg...
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$1.12 Million Jury Verdict for Negligent Performance of Unnecessary Spinal...
Michael Jacobs, 32, suffered a compression fracture in his back at L1. For that condition he was seen by neurosurgeon Dr. Mudit Sharma, who prescribed pain medicine and a back brace. Jacobs’s condition...
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Misdiagnosed Ear Infection Blamed for Hearing Loss but Jury Sides for the...
Aaron Hein, 35, saw his family practice physician, Dr. Jean Engelkemeir at the doctor’s clinic; he was complaining of left ear pain, nasal drip and sore throat. It was Sept. 17, 2008 when Dr....
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