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Jury Finds Doctor Accountable for Fatal Overdose of Prescription Medications
Vitalina Martinez was a long-term patient of the defendant internal medicine physician Eladio Vargas, MD. Martinez was Dr. Vargas’s patient for over 17 years. During this time, Dr. Vargas prescribed...
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$21.98 Million Jury Verdict for Brain Damaged Patient Caused by the Medical...
Gwendolyn Brown was a 50-year-old woman who had been suffering from back pain. She underwent three epidural steroid injections that were given by a pain specialist, Dr. Dennis Doherty, at the...
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$1 Million Settlement for Patient Injured by Failure to Identify and Repair...
This case was resolved in a confidential settlement. It dealt with an injury to a 50-year-old woman who underwent a hysterectomy performed by an obstetrician. During the surgery, it was revealed that a...
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Twelve-Year-Old Boy Dies When He is Prematurely Extubated Resulting in a...
Brett L., 12, underwent a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy at a children’s’ hospital. After the procedure, Brett was extubated and transferred to the hospital’s post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). Over...
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Illinois Appellate Court Orders New Trial in Wrongful Death Case Where Sister...
On April 29, 2004, 36-year-old Tamara Greico sprained her ankle during a bowling match. She was diagnosed in the emergency room of a hospital with a severe ankle sprain. She had wrapped it and was...
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Misdiagnosis by a Physician Employed at a Government Controlled Facility is...
Koni Johnson filed suit against two emergency physicians and their employer, Cook County, alleging the doctors were negligent in their treatment of her spinal cord injury. She had gone to John H....
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U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Summary Judgment in Causation Expert...
Kent Higgins inhaled chlorine gas at the Holiday World Amusement Park when the ride he was on malfunctioned. Higgins suffered chronic asthma and reactive airways dysfunction syndrome, or RADS, as a...
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$3 Million Arbitration Award in Case of Negligent Treatment of Angle Closure...
In a confidential arbitration and settlement, Mr. Doe, age 64, suffered severe injuries in a car accident. Doe was taken to a hospital where he was diagnosed as having angle closure glaucoma, a...
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Illinois Supreme Court Affirms General Rule That Suicide is an Unforeseeable...
On May 21, 2015, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed a general rule as a matter of law with respect to suicide. Maria Turcios brought a wrongful death lawsuit based on her husband’s suicide. The...
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Illinois Supreme Court Interprets Section 10 of the Health Care Services Lien...
A trial judge in Jackson County, Ill., refused to follow the case law found in Stanton v. Rea, 2012 IL App (5th) 110187 when calculating the amount of the hospital’s lien amount. In the case of Alma...
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$842,000 Jury Verdict for Patient Injured in Fall in Hospital
On Aug. 17, 2012, 66-year-old Maria Giotta underwent an outpatient CT scan with contrast at the Presence Resurrection Hospital. She began to experience an adverse reaction to the contrast solution...
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$940,000 Jury Verdict in Failure to Diagnose Infant’s Dehydration
Perry Pace was seven weeks old when he experienced viral symptoms, including chronic diarrhea and frequent vomiting for one week. Perry was transported by ambulance to a hospital emergency room where...
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$514,000 Jury Verdict Entered in Wrongful Death for Failure to Diagnose...
Paul Bartholomew, 73, had a history of prostate cancer and placement of an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter to protect him from blood clots. Ten years after receiving the IVC filter, he reported he had...
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Internist’s Failure to Rule Out Stroke Results in $6.37 Million Jury Verdict
Myrna Rawdin underwent an MRI to rule out a brain tumor. She was 63 years old at the time. The MRI results showed no tumor, but it did not rule out a transient ischemic attack (TIA). Over one year...
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$450,000 Settlement for the Wrongful Death of a Patient Who Died Allegedly...
This confidential settlement took place because of the death of a 62- year-old man who had a long history of smoking. He was also obese. The patient, who we will call Mr. Doe, suffered lethargy, a...
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$6.25 Jury Verdict in Death of a Two-Year-Old Caused by Misdiagnosis and...
Lauren Readler, 2, was taken to the emergency room because she was vomiting and had severe stomach pain. She had not had a bowel movement for two days. Lauren was given Zofran. Her parents were told to...
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Delayed Treatment of Spinal Cord Abscess Leaves Patient with Paralysis; Jury...
April Mendel, 52, underwent a laminectomy done by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Eric Williams. Dr. Williams was assisted by an orthopedic surgery resident, Dr. Andrew Beaver. Several days after being...
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$3 Million Settlement in Misdiagnosis and Death of a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl...
In this confidential settlement, a 13-year-old girl was sent to the hospital after she was involved in an automobile accident. She underwent an abdominal CT scan with contrast, which revealed a...
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$325,000 Settlement in Failure to Test Reconnection During Colon Surgery
Harvey Mantei, 60, underwent colon resection surgery performed by U.S. Veterans Hospital staff surgeon Dr. Karen Kwong. Within several days of the surgery, Mantei developed peritonitis and later...
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$28.2 Million Jury Verdict in Late Diagnosis of Bone Cancer Case
Anna Rahm, 17, began experiencing back pain without relief. Anna’s parents took her to a chiropractor who suggested that she be taken to a physician so that she could undergo an MRI scan. Anna met with...
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