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Wrong Jury Instruction Given in Medical Malpractice Case But Not Reversible...
Melvin Jones received a cervical laminectomy on Feb. 6, 2008 by surgeon Dr. Martin Luken. Dr. Charles Beck, an internist at the same hospital, evaluated Jones after the surgery. Jones developed...
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$1 Million Jury Verdict for Death of Patient in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Margaret Brown, a 71-year-old retiree, was admitted to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Belleville, Ill., in October 2002 to undergo a coronary artery bypass surgery. During the initial stages of the bypass...
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US Court of Appeals Reviews Federal Tort Claims Act Accrual Rule as to...
When the government is the only defendant in a Federal Tort Claims Act, the statute of limitations is two years. It doesn’t matter whether the plaintiff — who is the injured party in a medical...
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Fatal Vein Rupture During Cardiac Catherization Medical Malpractice Claim...
A Cook County jury found that no medical negligence that caused the death of Jerome Granat following a cardiac catherization. On June 16, 2010, the defendant cardiologist, Dr. Surendra Avula, performed...
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$2.268 Million Federal Jury Verdict in Wrongful Death Case of Doctor
On Aug. 1 to Aug. 3, 2012, Luis Enrique Acevedo Muro M.D. attended a medical conference at the J.W. Marriott Hotel on Adams Street in downtown Chicago. While staying at the hotel, which was recently...
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County Cook Jury Decides Patient Injury in Post-op Physical Therapy Case
A Cook County jury heard evidence in a medical malpractice jury trial related to postoperative physical therapy that was alleged to have caused left knee ligament damage to the patient. The plaintiff...
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Illinois Appellate Court Refuses to Reverse Trial Court Who Stayed the...
Richard Cholipski sued three contractors in Chicago for injuries he claimed that he suffered in a construction accident. Defendants requested and received permission to file a contribution claim three...
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Cook County Jury Finds for Doctor in Unnecessary Bronchoscopy that Caused...
Viola Morrisroe was diagnosed with COPD and emphysema in 1999. She was under the care of Dr. Edward Diamond of Suburban Lung Associates as her primary pulmonologist. In February 2009, a CT scan of her...
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Jury Verdict of $5.2 Million Reduced by High-Low Agreement to $1.2 Million...
Kevin Tolson was 49 years old when he was injured as the collapsible barrier he was walking over suddenly shot upward, entangling him. He was taken to the nearby hospital emergency room where he...
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$635,000 Jury Verdict for Injury to Patient for Negligent Removal of a...
Shronda Thomason suffered from a cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle, which necessitated the implanting of a defibrillator. The treating cardiologist, Dr. John Gallagher, advised Thomason...
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$2.13 Million Jury Verdict for Negligent Use of Synthetic Mesh in Hernia...
Barbara Watt underwent a hiatal hernia repair surgery. The procedure was carried out by general surgeon Dr. Cimenga Tshibaka, and it was unsuccessful. Dr. Tshibaka performed a second surgery, this time...
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$2.35 Million Jury Verdict for Doctor’s Failure to Timely Treat Septic Arthritis
John Antonucci was 52 years old at the time he underwent an MRI with contrast on his right hip. Two days later he was admitted to the hospital complaining of pain in the same hip. An orthopedic...
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Illinois Jury Finds in Favor of General Surgeon in Perforated Trachea Case
Latasha Randall was admitted on June 1, 2010 to Vista East Medical Center in Waukegan, Ill., and was diagnosed with sepsis. Shortly after her admission, she suffered respiratory failure and was...
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$2.7 Million Cook County Jury Verdict for the Death by Pulmonary Embolism...
Mary Mitchell underwent a total abdominal hysterectomy, but the doctor chose not to employ the appropriate prophylactic measures to prevent deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism that was alleged...
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Hospital’s Attempt for Contribution in Medical Malpractice Case Causing...
On June 13, 2005, Raymond Jackson, then 50, was admitted to. Provena St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill., for intractable back pain. He had a pre-existing condition of spine problems and was...
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Illinois Federal Court Applies Traditional Medical Malpractice Ruling to...
John Dux was alleged to have committed suicide because of a medical-malpractice incident at the Hines Veterans Administration Hospital in Maywood, Ill. The lawsuit brought by his daughter was filed...
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Negligent Credentialing Heads to the Illinois Supreme Court Regarding Medical...
The Illinois Supreme Court is about to entertain two cases that may have great impact on how medical-malpractice cases are handled. In the case of Klaine v. Southern Illinois Hospital Services, the...
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Missouri Lawmakers Try Again to Cap Medical Malpractice Verdicts
In Illinois, legislation has been passed three times to limit recoveries in medical negligence claims. Each time the Illinois Supreme Court has overturned such restrictions on the ground that they are...
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US Court of Appeals Rules that Cruise Ship Owners May Be Sued By its...
In what appears to be a change in 100 years of law, the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta has ruled that Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines can be successfully sued for medical malpractice by passengers...
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State Supreme Court Bars Claim Indemnity Action Against Hospital Under...
At issue in this South Carolina Supreme Court case was whether the medical malpractice statute of repose applied to indemnify the claim of Columbia/CSA-HS Greater Columbia Healthcare System — also...
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