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Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog

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By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

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Jury Returns $2.5 Million Malpractice Verdict

Posted on January 30, 2009
A district county returned a $2.5 million verdict for wrongful death of a 27 year-old patient. The jury returned the verdict in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a missed cancer diagnosis of a 24-yearo-old female patient. The patient continued to go to her doctor complaining of blood in her stools and pain...

Nurse?s Mistake Results in Medical Error

Posted on January 29, 2009
A doctor considered to be an expert in pigmented lesions removes the wrong lesion on a woman who dies two years later. The surgical error resulted from a nurse who mislabeled the skin condition which led the doctor to remove the wrong lesion and neglect the one with melanoma...

Dentist Faces Malpractice Allegations

Posted on January 29, 2009
After allegations of dental malpractice, a dentist faces the state board license review. If proven, the dentist faces license suspension or revocation. One of the complaints against the dentist is poor craftsmanship when filling cavities. For the full story, click here...

Jury awards $2 million to family of woman killed after delivery

Posted on January 27, 2009
A jury recently awarded $2 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit to the family of a woman who died after being given medication following the delivery of her baby. The jury determined that the doctor was negligent in giving medication to the new mother...

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AAJ?s Litigating Medical Negligence Seminar ? This Weekend

Posted on January 26, 2009
American Association for Justice is hosting a seminar on medical malpractice lawsuits this weekend in Phoenix, Arizona. The seminar will provide an in-depth understanding of medical negligence issues and trial strategies. For more information.

Congressional bill aims to better regulate doctor-owned hospitals

Posted on January 25, 2009
Doctor-owned hospitals have been criticized for driving up costs in ordering more tests or performing unnecessary surgeries. The proposed legislation will prohibit unethical kickbacks that physicians receive from ownership hospitals. One representative stated that most doctor-owned hospitals are of questionable safety and quality...

Woman Becomes a Quadriplegic After Horrific Hospital Stay

Posted on January 25, 2009
A mom lost her limbs during a horrific hospital stay is making great progress in using her artificial legs. The woman lost all four limbs and much of her eyesight to medical malpractice at a hospital. She was sent home from the emergency room with only painkillers for a kidney stone...

Justice Department Report Alleges Serious Mistreatment at State Veterans Home

Posted on January 24, 2009
A report released by the United States Justice Department alleges the care received at an Alabama veterans home has "contributed to the untimely deaths of ... residents as well as led to other preventable illnesses, injuries, and harm." Veterans injured while receiving care through the Department of Veterans Affairs may bring what is known as a Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the government for negligent care and medical malpractice committed by a VA facility...

Couple Amends Malpractice Suit

Posted on January 24, 2009
A woman, along with her husband, is suing her doctor for surgical error. After the doctor performed neck surgery on the woman, she lost all use in her legs and has limited use of her arms. The couple added the hospital to their lawsuit for negligent credentialing when they did not report the high complication rate for the doctor?s prior surgeries...

Ortho Evra Patch Creates Problems in Woman

Posted on January 23, 2009
A young woman who decided to wear the Ortho Evra patch to control her migraines ended up in the emergency room with a 8 inch cerebral venous thrombosis. This thrombosis was in the crown of her head and went all the way down and wrapped around the right side of the jugular vein...

Department of Veterans Affairs Settles Medical Malpractice Suit Stemming From Veteran?s Suicide

Posted on January 22, 2009
The Department of Veterans Affairs recently settled a Federal Tort Claims Act suit involving a returning Iraqi War Veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder who was allegedly refused treatment. The family of the deceased veteran alleges that the VA hospital?s refusal to treat their son after a suicide attempt led to the veteran?s wrongful death via suicide...

Woman Settles Medical Malpractice Suit with Illinois VA Hospital

Posted on January 20, 2009
The widow of man who died shortly after undergoing gallbladder surgery at an Illinois VA Hospital has settled her lawsuit against the U.S. Government. A statement released by the widow?s attorney alleges a mixture of medical negligence and a failure to adequately perform a background check as the factors which caused the veteran?s death...

What did my doctor just say?

Posted on January 19, 2009
Medical professionals have a tendency to speak in abbreviations. In such a busy, hectic setting such as an emergency room or a doctor?s office, abbreviations shorten time. However, some patients do not follow and are left in the dust. Here is a website where you can enter the abbreviation and then the search engine provides the definition...

Hospital Left Catheter in Heart

Posted on January 19, 2009
A medical malpractice lawsuit claims that doctors at a hospital left a five-inch catheter inside a man?s heart, causing an infection that complicated his fight against cancer, then tried to cover up the mistake. The man says that the hospital should have known that a catheter being used to treat his non-Hodgkin?s lymphoma had broken off from a port in his chest after he began treatment...

Case Law Update: Insurance Payouts in Medical Malpractice

Posted on January 18, 2009
Stevens v. County Mutual Insurance Company, No. 4-08-0216 (12-31-08) decided that an attorney, who collected limits of liability from liability insurer of driver of vehicle involved in collision with his client, is entitled to attorney's fees from his client's insurer pursuant to common fund doctrine for the collection of the medical payments it made on behalf of its insured; because insurer did not intend to file its own action, authorized settlement with other driver, and benefitted from attorney's efforts...

Case Law Update: Settlement in Medical Malpractice Cases

Posted on January 17, 2009
Gillespie v. University of Chicago Hospitals, No1-07-1962 (12-31-08) ruled that the trial court did not err when it granted directed verdict in favor of non settling physician for wrongful death and survival because there was no physician patient relationship between plaintiff's decedent and internist, whom emergency room physicians listed as plaintiff's decedent's treating doctor, after she was discharged from the emergency room when defendant, physician, never saw her; and her report of EKG results was not used in plaintiff's diagnosis...

Congressmen Act to Prevent Veterans? Injuries Resulting from VA Medical Malpractice

Posted on January 16, 2009
Two United States Congressmen have recently re-introduced legislation aimed at hedging against VA medical malpractice. Amongst the call for more stringent background checks of doctors and staff, the bill requires applying physicians to disclose all prior medical malpractice allegations...

Chicago hospital settlement could help uninsured patients

Posted on January 15, 2009
In a move with far reaching effects on people without health insurance, two Illinois hospital systems have agreed to settle lawsuits alleging that they overcharged thousands of uninsured patients and provided inadequate financial assistance. For the full article...

Kugel Mesh Patients Experience Life-Threatening Conditions

Posted on January 15, 2009
If a person had the Kugel Mesh patch implanted during their hernia surgery, there is a chance that their cure is worse than the disease. Some patients have experienced problems with their Kugel Mesh hernia patch that have caused serious, life-threatening conditions...

Hospital Scrubs Cause Infections

Posted on January 14, 2009
An infection called ?C. diff? has been plaguing hospitals nationwide and some people are blaming the scrubs that the hospital staff wear. A national hospital survey has warned that C. diff infections are sickening half a million people a year. Some hospitals have gone as far as to prohibit scrubs outside the building...

FDA Aims to Reduce Foreign Drug Manufacturer Errors

Posted on January 14, 2009
After the heparin contamination last year, the FDA is now forming a pilot program to study 100 applicants in their hopes to promote safety in foreign pharmaceutical ingredients. The heparin contamination was produced by foreign companies where numerous deaths were the result of adverse drug reactions to the substance...

Women More Likely to Experience Delayed Diagnosis in Heart Conditions than Men

Posted on January 14, 2009
According to a report, women were 52 percent more likely to experience delayed diagnosis during emergency medical services than men. The emergency medical services? delay came while transporting the patient to the hospital. No apparent evidence to why this delay was given...

Beware: risk of medical malpractice when rural ERs not staffed by doctors

Posted on January 14, 2009
Occasionally, medical malpractice lawsuits are filed after medical residents or other midlevel practitioners take the place of busy doctors and make medical mistakes. Many rural emergency rooms, however, are not staffed by doctors but by ?midlevels? like physician assistants and nurse practitioners...

Malpractice Reform

Posted on January 13, 2009
A 2005 medical reform law is facing major controversy between its supporters (doctors, hospitals, and members of the insurance industry) and those lawmakers calling the reform a failure. The law requires a three-member screening panel before a medical malpractice issue can be taken to trial...

House Calls Save Money

Posted on January 13, 2009
One doctor believes if patients are treated at home it will reduce the cost of Medicare and medical outcomes will improve. The article provides a solution for healthcare reform. The doctor noticed through his years working with the elderly that his patients were aware of hospital dangers...

Missed or delayed diagnosis of acute appendicities common medical mistake

Posted on January 13, 2009
The failure to diagnose acute appendicitis is one of the most common medical mistakes leading to medical malpractice lawsuits. As many as 30% of patients with acute appendicitis were initially misdiagnosed by a physician at a pervious medical examination...

Case Law Update: Jury Instructions in Medical Malpractice

Posted on January 13, 2009
Studt v. Sherman Health Systems, No. 2-07-0945 (12/23/04) affirmed a decision for a Medical malpractice verdict in favor of plaintiffs for failure to properly diagnose and treat wife's appendicitis is not subject to reversal based on defendant, emergency room physician's, challenge to "reasonably careful physician" and other language in IPI Civil (2006) 105...

Lab recalls erroneous test results, possibly largest test recall in 20 years

Posted on January 12, 2009
Quest Diagnostics, the largest medical laboratory company in the U.S., has acknowledged that it has provided possibly erroneous lab results to thousands of people, prompting what some consider to be the largest patient test recall in the last 20 years...

Medical Malpractice Trial Concludes

Posted on January 12, 2009
The medical malpractice trial which involved the death of a high school student while under the care of an orthopedic surgeon. The trial presented uncontested facts that the girl underwent arthroscopic knee surgery in early April of 2004. Near the end of that month the girl?s physical therapist noted that the girl had swelling in one calf and the complaint of pain, yet the orthopedic surgeon did not note a swelling in the calf and did not order any special tests to rule out such possibilities as a blood clot...

Study shows Alzheimer?s Drugs May Raise Risk of Death

Posted on January 11, 2009
A study suggests that anti-sychotic drugs commonly used to treat Alzheimer?s disease may double a patient?s chance of dying within a few years. The paper?s lead other suggests that for the vast majority of Alzheimer?s patients, taking the drugs may not be a worthwhile risk...

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