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Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog

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By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

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Last Entry: June 10, 2020 at 09:37:56

Lack of Treatment Gets Doctors in Trouble

Posted on April 03, 2009
A man?s death brings a lawsuit against a hospital and doctor for lack of treatment. The deceased?s family alleges that when he was admitted to the emergency room at the hospital for a fever the doctor failed to diagnose the man for an ulcer that developed...

Orthopedic Surgeon Found Negligent

Posted on April 02, 2009
An orthopedic surgeon was found medically negligent performing a total knee replacement. The knee replacement resulted in seven more surgeries in a period of only two and a half years. The patient still suffers from a chronic pain syndrome and was unable to return to his job...

Woman Claims Unwanted Facelift and Liposuction

Posted on April 01, 2009
A state medical board filed accusations of gross negligence and incompetence against two surgeons for surgical error. A patient claims one of the surgeons performed unwanted medical procedures of a facelift and liposuction on her when she only agreed to a tummy tuck...

U of C Medical Center Allegedly Violated Federal Law

Posted on March 31, 2009
According to federal officials, The University of Chicago Medical Center has violated the federal law of Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act by not following emergency room procedure. The Chicago hospital failed to provide a medical screening to a 78 year old man who died last month in their emergency room...

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Bill Hopes to Hold Military Medical Personnel Accountable

Posted on March 29, 2009
A military officer?s skin cancer was overlooked and later misdiagnosed as a wart by two different military doctors. When seeking out a third opinion after his tour was over, he learned he had stage three skin cancer and died 18 months later. The medical misdiagnosis led to legislation introduced in the House...

Misdiagnosis Leads to Big Jury Award

Posted on March 28, 2009
A doctor at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois misdiagnosed an Air Force officer?s ex-wife?s rash on her arm. He told the woman to go home and take over-the-counter medication for her rash. The condition was not a rash but a flesh eating bacteria. The medical misdiagnosis caused the woman to lose the use of her arm...

Pharmacists Given Equal Medical Malpractice Protection

Posted on March 27, 2009
Pharmacists are given equal notoriety under a state medical malpractice reform bill. A massive medical malpractice reform was passed a few years back in this state with pharmacists overlooked. The bill also includes a felony for practicing medicine without a license...

Case Law Update: Reports in Medical Malpractice

Posted on March 27, 2009
Crull v. Sriratana, M.D., No. 4-06-0952 (3/23/09) affirmed a previous opinion which found that the trial court did not err when it dismissed plaintiff's medical malpractice complaint with prejudice after trial court learned that plaintiff's attorney relied on report of medical consultant whose license of practice medicine had been suspended for felony narcotics conviction when he signed affidavit to extend time for filing 2-622 report...

Hospital Admits Possible Lapse in Protocol Surrounding Elderly Man?s Death

Posted on March 27, 2009
According to the Crain?s Chicago, the University of Chicago Medical Center is under fire again, this time for the death of an elderly man who passed away on February 3 in the hospital?s emergency room. The article did not give specific details about this possible case of medical malpractice...

A Surgeon Accuses His Attorney for Fleeing the Country

Posted on March 26, 2009
A surgeon fled the country pursuant to his attorney?s advice in order to not be easily prosecuted for a medical malpractice case, according to the doctor. The plastic surgeon was claimed to have performed surgery on a man left disfigured who was now filing a medical negligence case against him...

Surgeon Faces Double Digit Complaints

Posted on March 25, 2009
Surgeon Paul Christopher Francel is facing 14 complaints that have been filed against him for medical malpractice negligence. In 2006, the surgeon made headlines after he performed surgery on a Russian teen that left him brain dead. The parents of the teen have filed a wrongful death complaint which is just one of the numerous others against the surgeon...

Failure to Inform Patient Alterative Methods Costs Big

Posted on March 24, 2009
A man was awarded $1.4 million dollars from a doctor and pain management center after he had a cervical epidural steroid procedure. The jury found the doctor failed to inform the patient of ?appropriate alternative medical treatments available to him...

Case Law Update: Doctrine of Revestment in Medical Malpractice

Posted on March 22, 2009
Wierzbicki v. Gleason, No. 1-06-3756 (3-6-09) is a sixth court decision that found that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to enter order reversing previous order allowing plaintiff to reinstate her medical malpractice action, which had been dismissed for want of prosecution, while the reinstatement order was on appeal...

Health Care Reform May Involve Malpractice Reform

Posted on March 22, 2009
With health care reform being a major topic in the new Obama administration, advisors are realizing this reform may include medical malpractice reform as well. Senator Ron Wyden thinks capping medical malpractice claims is key to reforming health care...

Family Sues Over Son?s Misdiagnosis and Negligence

Posted on March 20, 2009
A hospital?s misdiagnosis a boy?s cancer led to his death according to his family?s complaint filed against the hospital. The hospital originally diagnosed the son with bacterial meningitis and released him. The condition later was determined to be an aggressive form of anaplastic central nervous system T-cell lymphoma cancer that killed the boy...

Huge Award for Neurosurgeon Malpractice

Posted on March 20, 2009
A jury has awarded a woman $38.3 million in a medical malpractice claim against a neurosurgeon and medication management company. She suffered severe injuries and chronic pain when the neurosurgeon injected her with a medication called Methylene Blue found in the medication management company?s medicine cabinet...

Man Files Medical Malpractice Lawsuit against Heart Surgeon and Hospital

Posted on March 18, 2009
On March 16, a man filed a medical malpractice, naming a heart surgeon, hospital and six hospital employees as defendants. The negligence lawsuit alleges that after performing heart surgery on the plaintiff, the doctor failed to completely sew the incision shut on his chest...

Lawmakers May Focus on Medical Malpractice Changes That Would Be Harmful to Plaintiffs

Posted on March 17, 2009
Key players from Congress and the Obama Administration are once again bringing medical malpractice reform to the table. An AP article discusses that these changes could benefit doctors and hospitals but they would also harm a plaintiff?s ability to seek just compensation when they are involved in a medical malpractice case...

Man Wins $5.8 Million in Medical Negligence Case

Posted on March 16, 2009
A jury ordered a hospital to pay $5.8 million in a medical malpractice case to an anesthesiologist who suffered serious infection after having back surgery. The doctor was a staff member of the hospital where the surgery took place. The medical malpractice lawsuit claimed that his surgeons used instruments that were not properly sterilized and the surgery site became infected as a result of this negligence...

Fewer People Getting Plastic Surgery During Recession

Posted on March 16, 2009
A new study by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) has found that the number of plastic surgery procedures is down by 12% since 2007. Many attribute this drop to the recession and people choosing not to have the often voluntary procedures to save money and take less time off of work...

$2.5 Million Jury Verdict in Malpractice Case

Posted on March 13, 2009
A jury awarded a woman $2.5 million in a medical malpractice case in which a surgeon left a sponge inside of her body during a hysterectomy. The woman was unaware of this surgical error until three years later when she began to have health problems. After discovering the sponge, doctors performed surgery to remove it...

Doctor Negligent in Pharmacist?s Death

Posted on March 12, 2009
A jury found a negligent doctor caused the death of a pharmacist. The pharmacist visited the doctor four days before his death because he was experiencing chest pain, jaw pain, and anxiety. Instead of concluding the man was having a heart attack, the doctor delayed diagnosis by taking a electrocardiogram...

Patients Overcharged by Chicago Hospital Group

Posted on March 10, 2009
Advocate Health Group, the largest medical care provider in the Chicago area, allegedly ?overcharged uninsured patients for services provided.? The Chicago hospital group settled about $3.8 million with the class action alleging the claims against the health group for the overpaid money...

Cap on Medical Malpractice Awards

Posted on March 09, 2009
A state legislature has been pushing a bill that will place caps on how much a plaintiff will be awarded in a medical malpractice suit. The bill is supported by those that think the caps will keep doctors from leaving their state. The caps would be placed on ?non-economic damages? including compensation for loss of companionship and emotional distress...

Jury Awards Big in Medical Malpractice Case

Posted on March 08, 2009
A man won $17.5 million in a medical malpractice suit against a doctor who failed to treat him correctly after contracting Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Due to the doctor?s error, the man lost both his arms and legs from the MRSA infection...

Man Receives $17.5 Million In Medical Malpractice Case

Posted on March 08, 2009
A man won $17.5 million in a medical malpractice suit against a doctor who failed to treat him correctly after contracting MRSA. The plaintiff contracted the hospital borne infection after having ulcer surgery. Due to the doctor?s failure to treat his infection with proper antibiotics, the man lost both his arms and legs from the MRSA infection...

Jury Awards Big for Dental Malpractice

Posted on March 07, 2009
A jury awards $11 million in a

Hospital Settles over Heart Surgery Error

Posted on March 06, 2009
A hospital settled $260,000 with a patient whose surgeon used the wrong angiogram films in performing her triple bypass surgery. The doctor did not realize he had made the medical error until he was closing the patient up. Afterwards he disclosed the surgical error to the patient and her husband but said she should not have any adverse effects since her arteries were almost identical to the arteries in the angiogram he initially used...

Illinois Hospital Patient Death

Posted on March 05, 2009

Hospital Fined for Lost Sponge

Posted on March 05, 2009

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