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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

Levin & Perconti are Super Illinois Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Posted on January 18, 2008
Levin & Perconti's Steven Levin and John Perconti are 2008 Illinois Super Lawyers! Chicago Magazine has honored the two for the fourth year in a row as top Illinois Injury Attorneys. John and Steve have practiced Chicago medical malpractice law for over twenty five years...

To improve patient safety in hospitals, Illinois needs to implement a nurse to patient ratio law

Posted on January 16, 2008
Illinois is one of the few states where the National Nurses Organizing Committee has sponsored a proposed bill to impose mandatory nurse to patient ratios. California has been experimenting with a hospital staffing law with revolutionary results in recent years...

Recent study shows Medicare & Medicaid fraud out of control

Posted on January 15, 2008
There are many factors that contribute to why Medicare & Medicaid fraud is becoming out of control in America. Two serious contributors are overpriced prescriptions for medications, devices and treatments in addition to overspending by largely unregulated hospitals...

Hospital conduct leads to reduced patient safety and medical malpractice lawsuits

Posted on January 15, 2008
In a recent medical malpractice lawsuit, a birth injury that was allegedly caused by a nurse-doctor communication breakdown yielded a $1.2 million settlement. Nurses were concerned that the birth was taking too long, but were hesitant to consult the doctor about these fears due to his reputation of angry responses to perceived criticism...

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Illinois judge awards $4.5 in medical malpractice lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act; doctors failed to diagnose fatal illness

Posted on January 14, 2008
A $4.5 million medical malpractice award was recently made in Illinois following the wrongful death of a woman infected with AIDS. Because the woman was being treated at a federal clinic, the case was tried under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The doctors at the Chicago clinic allegedly failed to recognize the complaints and symptoms of the patient which would have led to the diagnosis of lactic acidosis, a potentially fatal side-effect of some HIV/AIDS treatment drugs...

2004 Illinois patient safety laws monitoring medical malpractice still not implemented

Posted on January 11, 2008
The Illinois Hospital Report Card, the Illinois Consumer Guide to Health Care and another project meant to monitor medical malpractice issues in Illinois hospitals were groundbreaking and exciting initiatives passed in the state in the last four years...

Fatal brain injury caused by a doctor with a history of medical malpractice leads to new legislation

Posted on January 10, 2008
The mother of a 22-year-old victim of medical malpractice has recently sponsored a new law requiring doctors to make past medical malpractice settlements and verdicts against them public. The mother claims that her son was given an unnecessary surgery causing a brain injury that made him partly-paralyzed, half-blind and psychotic after his brain was jostled by the neurosurgeon...

Illinois health care and medical malpractice reports overdue

Posted on January 09, 2008
Illinois participated in the nation-wide trend to pass legislation making it mandatory to publish health care "report cards" disclosing information about hospital acquired infections and medical malpractice. But while over a dozen states have begun posting the information on the internet, Illinois has yet to move forward with the initiative...

Wrongful death lawsuit may be filed against jail that ignored symptoms, causing death

Posted on January 09, 2008
A wrongful death lawsuit is being contemplated by the family of a man who died of a "medical related" cause while an inmate in a jail. The investigation is still continuing; the coroner's report said that the death was caused by medical reasons, implying negligence...

Wrongful death lawsuit brought against doctor who negligently prescribed drugs to driver who killed a child in auto accident

Posted on January 08, 2008
If physicians do not warn patients of the risks medications have on driving ability, they now can be held liable in an automobile accident lawsuit. In a recent suit, a boy was killed in a car accident by a man prescribed eight different medications by his doctor and was not warned of their side effects...

Birth injury verdict thrown out after jury was allegedly unfairly influenced

Posted on January 08, 2008
A $14 million medical malpractice verdict in favor of a boy who was brain damaged during birth has been tossed by a New York appellate court based on the defense's allegations that the jury was unfairly influenced by both the plaintiffs and the judge...

Medical errors no longer covered by Medicare and Medicaid; private insurers to follow suit

Posted on January 06, 2008
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced officially that beginning in October 2008 expenses incurred from medical mistakes made by health care providers will no longer be eligible for reimbursement. Providers will also be prohibited from charging patients for these expenses...

Hospital settles lawsuit regarding surgical error in teen?s death

Posted on December 25, 2007
A hospital recently settled a medical malpractice lawsuit regarding the death of a 17 year-old who died following surgery in 2004. The medical malpractice victim was an active teenager who underwent surgery in December 2004 to upgrade a device implanted in her brain when she was an infant to prevent fluid from building up...

Illinois medical malpractice trial begins in Springfield

Posted on December 24, 2007
An Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit trial recently began where a Springfield, Illinois pathologist misdiagnosed an infection in the medical malpractice victim?s back as cancer in 1998. This misdiagnosis caused preventable spine damage that required several surgeries and left the victim unable to work...

Doctor facing malpractice lawsuits files for bankruptcy

Posted on December 23, 2007
A former doctor facing more than 120 medical malpractice lawsuits filed for bankruptcy. The bankruptcy filing could delay the medical malpractice lawsuits, but several plaintiffs have asked the bankruptcy court to allow those cases to move forward. For the full article...

Cook County, Illinois hospitals sued for faulty mammograms

Posted on December 22, 2007
Stroger Hospital in Chicago, Illinois and other Cook County medical clinics face Illinois medical malpractice lawsuits over faulty mammograms in two separate cases. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of an Illinois medical malpractice victim who passed away from breast cancer...

Woman mis-diagnosed with HIV receives $2.5M jury award in medical malpractice lawsuit

Posted on December 21, 2007
A Massachusetts woman who was prescribed a regimen of powerful drugs for several years after being misdiagnosed with HIV recently received a $2.5 million jury award in a medical malpractice lawsuit. The 45 year-old brought the medical malpractice lawsuit against one of the doctors who treated her after being misdiagnosed with HIV in 1994...

Medical malpractice lawsuit settlement reveals lengthy malpractice history

Posted on December 20, 2007
In 1999, a 52 year-old woman had serious back pain and drove with her husband to the busy clinic of a doctor, whom they immediately liked because of his concern for the woman. Thirteen months later, that woman died from aggressive lymphoma that her husband now believes could have been the cause of the terrible back pain...

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