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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

Brain damaged ex-worker must pay $470,000 to Wal-Mart

Posted on March 26, 2008
The family of a woman must reimburse Wal-Mart for nearly a half-million dollars in medical expenses now that the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review her case. The court recently let a ruling by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis requiring Debbie Shank to pay nearly $470,000 to Wal-Mart...

One clinic facing a slew of medical malpractice lawsuits after reusing syringes and vials of medicine

Posted on March 25, 2008
It was recently revealed that a clinic had reused syringes and vials of medicine. With a large clientele, this clinic could have potentially exposed 40,000 patients to HIV and hepatitis B and C. This Southern Nevada clinic is now facing numerous medical malpractice lawsuits...

Jury finds for physician in medical malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit of John Ritter

Posted on March 24, 2008
A jury verdict decided in favor of physicians in the medical malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit of Actor John Ritter. The medical malpractice lawsuit was brought by Ritter?s widow and children. The jury deliberated for two days, but did not find the cardiologist or the radiologist to be negligent in Ritter?s care...

Doctor faces medical malpractice lawsuit and potential criminal indictment

Posted on March 23, 2008
The gynecologist whose patient died after his abortion is now facing a wrongful death lawsuit and medical malpractice lawsuit and a possible grand jury indictment. The patient, a 22 year-old woman, died after an abortion was performed in September. The doctor resigned his medical license last month...

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We cannot trust health care oversight until conflicts cease

Posted on March 22, 2008
A recent op-ed article scrutinized health care oversight. The article argued that there is no reason that any consumer seeking preventive care should risk death while seeking routine medical care at the hands of a profiteering physician. When culpability in a medical malpractice lawsuit becomes revealed, there is no reason that others with close ties to a bad doctor should remain in positions of oversight...

Medical board website reveals less info on doctors? malpractice

Posted on March 21, 2008
Four years ago, an investigation concluded that it was easier for consumers to find out information about their building contractors than for patients to get information about their doctors. In response, the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners promised to enhance its website to inform the public about doctors...

Legislation that Reduces Patients? Rights Fails

Posted on March 20, 2008
An amendment to the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act failed to move past committee as the bill sought to limit the rights of injured persons, including many affected by medical malpractice and negligence. The amendment provided that the Act would ?not apply to claims seeking damages for conduct that results in bodily injury, death, or damage to property other than the property that is the subject? of the unlawful practice...

Looking beyond the borders: is New Zealand?s approach to medical liability working?

Posted on March 19, 2008
A recent op-ed article examined the ?tort reform? debate that is ongoing throughout America and suggests our country look to New Zealand?s approach to medical malpractice. The article states that New Zealand has succeeded in compensating patients and ensuring accountability among physicians by taking a markedly different approach...

Waking Up During Surgery: A Nightmarish Reality

Posted on March 17, 2008
A guest post written by Susan Jacobs* A recent study conducted by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has indicated that we are no closer to preventing patients from waking up during surgery. Despite the use of modern brain-wave monitors that supposedly detect if a patient is conscious during surgery, the problem is still there...

Illinois Bill To Assist Wronged Patients Recover From Physicians

Posted on March 14, 2008
The Illinois state legislature introduced a proposed rule amendment that would amend the Code of Civil Procedure to allow courts to appoint a special representative for a person who dies before an action is filed against him. The amendment thus allows plaintiffs to bring an action against the special representative without opening an estate...

Medical malpractice lawsuit filed against clinic by patients who contracted virus

Posted on March 13, 2008
At least five people not yet identified by health officials say that during visits to a Las Vegas medical clinic that reused syringes and improperly cleaned medical equipment in a horrible case of medical malpractice. Medical malpractice lawsuits were filed against the Clinic alleging that the patients contracted the potentially fatal hepatitis C while undergoing colonoscopies...

Tort Immunity Act Immunizes Physicians For Failure to Diagnose

Posted on March 12, 2008
An Illinois Appellate Court once again limited the rights of wronged patients in medical malpractice and negligence cases by affirming a trial court?s grant of summary judgment under the Illinois Tort Immunity Act. The court determined that the Tort Immunity Act immunizes a defendant for failing to make an adequate examination and for a failure to diagnose an illness...

ACLU files lawsuit alleging medical malpractice in prison

Posted on March 11, 2008
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class-action lawsuit against the governor of Nevada and other state officials last week, alleging they had failed to rectify ?a pervasive pattern of gross medical malpractice at the state?s maximum security prison...

Judge dismisses medical malpractice lawsuit about gauze left in patient

Posted on March 11, 2008
A medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that a large piece of gauze had been left inside a patient after surgery was thrown out by a judge last week. The medical malpractice lawsuit contends that a piece of gauze more than 2 feet long was left inside a woman after surgery in 2004...

Couple files medical malpractice lawsuit against hospital for unnecessary surgery

Posted on March 09, 2008
A woman and her husband have filed a lawsuit against a hospital saying that doctors performed unnecessary surgery on her that led to health problems. According to the medical malpractice lawsuit filed, the woman was admitted to the hospital for a heart attack...

State Court Expands Rights of Wronged Patients

Posted on March 06, 2008
A state Supreme Court decided to expand the rights of wronged patients in medical malpractice and negligence cases. The decision reinterprets the law so that the statute of limitations on raising a malpractice claim now begins once a patient knows the extent and cause of his injury in contrast to prior decisions stating that the statute of limitations began once symptoms were initially diagnosed...

Serious Medical Errors Go Unpunished

Posted on March 06, 2008
A recent study has found that many of the serious incidents of medical malpractice and negligence go unreported, even when physicians are aware that they should be reporting such violations. A survey of 1,600 doctors showed that 46 percent had witnessed ?serious? medical errors by their colleagues without reporting them, even though 93 percent said they realized they should report such malpractice...

Illinois Cancer Center Sued After Wife Dies of Cancer

Posted on March 04, 2008
Ron Weidenfeller, through his attorneys at Levin and Perconti, has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Schaumburg-based Cancer Treatment Centers of America and its Midwestern Regional Medical Center in Zion on behalf of his wife who died from an undiagnosed colon obstruction...

Physician Sues Hospital

Posted on February 28, 2008
A physician has filed a lawsuit against her own hospital after being pushed out for attempting to report major events of medical malpractice and gross negligence. Following state inspections of the facility, the federal government has halted Medicare and Medicaid funding to the hospital until it is able to meet minimum standards of safety...

$24 million medical malpractice lawsuit verdict awarded to Illinois man

Posted on February 24, 2008
An Illinois man was awarded nearly $24 million in an Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit verdict. The man, now 34, entered an Illinois hospital in 2001 to have a kidney stone remove. While there, he suffered cardiac arrest, which interrupted the flow of oxygen to his brain...

Negligent Physician Finally Facing Censure

Posted on February 21, 2008
A physician facing 122 charges of medical malpractice and negligence is finally facing the possibility of losing his license. After repeated acts of medical malpractice, including allegations in pending lawsuits by patients that the physician sent one patient into a coma and caused great pain to another, the physician may finally be unable to practice...

Insurance company's doctors decide girl should not get transplant

Posted on February 10, 2008
Preventable deaths in hospitals are not limited to people without access to health care and victims of medical mistakes and medical malpractice. People with insurance can still be effected by their insurer and the doctors advising the company. A teenage girl with leukemia was recently denied a liver transplant by her insurance company, who claimed that the procedure was too experimental...

Experts offer advice on how to mend a broken US healthcare system

Posted on February 10, 2008
Around 47 million Americans don't have health care, but even those that do agree that problems in the United States healthcare system need reform. In a recent article, 10 health care experts offered their personal suggestions on how to improve the country's situation...

Diabetes study ends prematurely after shocking and unexpected results

Posted on February 09, 2008
The generally accepted medical opinion for decades has been that diabetes patients should lower their blood sugar in order to reduce the risk of death from heart disease. However, a recent extensive federal study has been cut short after the middle-aged and older participants had a higher risk of death after lowering their blood sugar...

Limited healthcare access, medical mistakes contribute to US's ranking as worst in preventable deaths

Posted on February 07, 2008
The United States ranked worst among 19 leading industrialized nations in preventable deaths due to treatable conditions. France, Japan and Australia were ranked the highest. The study that created this ranking showed that if the United States had preventable death rates more comparable to those countries, there would be 101,000 less deaths in the US each year...

32 liver transplant patients died after being misled by hospital

Posted on January 30, 2008
Multiple lawsuits were filed after 32 liver transplant patients at UCI Medical Center who were allegedly misled about the availability of surgeons were denied transplants and died. After the wrongful death claims, the University of California recently reached a $7...

Spike in post-surgical deaths reveals substandard care in Illinois VA hospital

Posted on January 29, 2008
When the VA hospital in Marion, Illinois reported a spike in post-surgical deaths that was four times greater than the expected rate, an investigation revealed that these deaths were the result of substandard care and medical malpractice. That investigation revealed that, in the last two years, there were at least 34 patients who had been injured due to substandard care...

Preventable deaths, injuries more likely as ER waiting room waits climb

Posted on January 24, 2008
Preventable deaths, injuries, and illnesses have been found to be caused by emergency room delays. ER waiting times have increased from 22 minutes in 1997 to 30 minutes in 2004. Heart attack patients are exposed to more serious dangers as their wait time has doubled on average, but the risks caused by delay are great...

Lawsuit filed after paramedics, medical examiner falsely declare car accident victim dead

Posted on January 23, 2008
A lawsuit has been filed against a county medical examiner, paramedics, and county Emergency Medical Services after a man who was declared dead at the scene of an automobile accident but was found to be alive hours later sustained permanent injuries. Paramedics responded to calls after the car accident but negligently failed to check the man's vital signs properly not noticing his faintly beating heart...

Pregnant woman dies after negligent treatment in an Evanston hospital; Cook County jury awards $22 million

Posted on January 20, 2008
A $22 million verdict was recently awarded in a Cook County, Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit. The jury ruled that the hospital was negligent during the birth of a 34-year-old woman's son in that staff did not properly treat difficulties with the woman's blood pressure...

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