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Illinois Jury Considers Medical Malpractice Death That Occurred During Leg...
Anthony Bausal was transported by ambulance to the emergency department at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington, Ill., on Sept. 20, 2008. Bausal had a cellulitis infection in his left leg,...
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Cook County Deadlocked on Death Caused by an Omission by Radiologist
On Jan. 8, 2008, Nicole Yerkovich, who was 35 at the time, was taken by ambulance to the emergency department at LaGrange Memorial Hospital because of severe abdominal pain and nausea. The ER doctor at...
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Medical Malpractice Caps on Verdicts Leaves Patients in the Cold
The state of South Dakota has imposed a medical malpractice cap that leaves many who are injured or killed without a remedy. It was reported recently that a young woman who brought herself to a...
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Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Over Intestinal Perforation Results in Jury...
On June 1, 2009, the defendant surgeon Dr. Aaron Siegel agreed to assist a urologist during a urological surgery on 60-year-old Ivory Lakes at the Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, Ill....
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Cardiologist Writes About the Future of Creative Medicine: “The Patient Will...
Eric Topol, M.D., is the director of Scripps Translational Science Institute, which is believed to be one of medicine’s most innovative programs about the digital future in medicine. The book written...
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Cook County Jury Finds No Medical Malpractice in Death of Patient from Brain...
General practitioner physician Dr. Ram Thawani was the attending physician for Peter Gates during his hospitalization at Chicago’s South Shore Hospital on Oct. 23, 2009. Gates, 57, died from a brain...
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Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Claim Not Dismissed Because of the Failure...
A $2.5 million wrongful-death judgment was entered in favor of the family of Walter Mankowski, who died on April 7, 2009. At that time, there was no special administrator appointed until after the...
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Xarelto Lawsuits are Underway in Multi-district Litigation in the U.S....
More than 25 lawsuits have been filed against Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries, Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Bayer Corporation, in consolidated cases in the Louisiana federal district court regarding...
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Appellate Court Affirms Decision That Expert Testimony is Required in Lawsuit...
A Minnesota Appellate Court has held that expert testimony was required to prove a plaintiff’s claim that the paramedic’s negligent transfer was the cause of a patient’s ankle injury and later resulted...
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$750,000 Jury Verdict in Negligence Associated with Spinal Surgery
Walter Hoover was 70 years old when he suffered a compression fracture in his back at L4. After the first rounds of treatment were found to be unsuccessful, he was transferred to a Veterans...
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Cook County Jury Finds for Doctor in Fatal Bleeding After Anticoagulation...
In December 2009, Marion Peterson was admitted to Our Lady of Resurrection Hospital in Chicago because of respiratory distress. After several days in the intensive care unit, she was transferred to a...
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Illinois Appellate Court Rules that an Emergency-Room Physician who Rode in...
The Illinois Appellate Court ruled that the emergency-room resident physician, Dr. Nicholas Strane, was immune from suit under the Illinois Emergency Medical Services System Act. This case arises out...
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Illinois Appellate Court Agrees That Medical Malpractice Lawsuit for Wrongful...
Three years after the death of Kathryn Moon, the plaintiff, Randall Moon, who served as executor of his mother’s estate, filed a wrongful death and survival action lawsuit against the defendants, Dr....
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Illinois Supreme Court Refuses to Extend Evidentiary Privileges to Agency in...
A wrongful-death case was brought against One Hope United Inc., one of its employees and the Cook County public guardian who was acting as administrator of 7-month-old Marshana Philpot. One Hope...
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Jury Enters $10.93 Million Verdict for Doctor’s Failure to Take Adequate...
J.B. was 35 years old and in her 26th week of her third pregnancy when she developed a severe headache and abdominal cramping. J.B. called her treating obstetrician’s office and later spoke to an...
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$1.5 Million Jury Verdict for Toxic Substance Used in Cataract Surgery Leaves...
Jerry Medlin, 60, underwent cataract surgery in his left eye. The surgery was completed by an ophthalmologist, Dr. Timothy Young. During the surgery, Dr. Young called for VisionBlue, a staining...
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$3.43 Million Jury Verdict for Unnecessary and Excessive Patient Surgeries
Patricia McCleod, 49, suffered from pain, numbness and tingling in her left leg. A plastic surgeon, Dr. Patrick Swier, ordered testing and later diagnosed McCleod with lower extremity nerve...
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$6.6 Million Jury Award to Patient Who Suffered Paralysis from his Chest Down...
HW was 44 years old and had a history of heroin abuse. He developed severe back pain and then went to a local hospital’s emergency room telling the nursing staff that he was also suffering from heroin...
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Illinois Appellate Court Orders New Trial After Inconsistent Medical...
In a strange but interesting medical malpractice case, the jury entered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff without awarding a single dollar for plaintiff’s noneconomic damages. In April 2013, after a...
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Pathologist Missed Cancer in Brain Tissue Leading to Patient Death and $1.7...
On March 21, 2007, Daniel Gapinski underwent neurosurgery at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill. The surgery was for resection of the brain mass in the pituitary area. The defendant, Dr....
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