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$43.3M Chicago Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Emergency Room Care

July 26, 2025

On April 10, 2025, a Chicago medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $43,330,947.34 in favor of the Estate of Anna Wyrwal. Anna is a 32-year-old woman who is in a permanent state of unresponsiveness following negligent hospital emergency room care that occurred in May 2020. An[...]

$5.6M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Stent Procedure Resulting In Heart Failure

July 9, 2025

On April 25, 2025, a Cook County Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5.59 million in favor of a man who underwent a cardiac stent procedure that implanted an undersized stent that caused him to suffer permanent heart damage. On June 22, 2020, the 59-year-old man [...]

$23M Illinois Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 11, 2024

On May 1, 2024, an Illinois birth injury medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $23,070,000 in favor of now seven-year-old Na’ Jai Johnson, who sustained brain damage and cerebral palsy as a result of the claimed medical negligence of two obstetricians and a nurse at Chicag[...]

Doctors Partially Sterilized Patient Without Her Consent Before They Realized Their Mistake

November 2, 2022

Patient Partially Sterilized Without Consent: A woman who gave birth by emergency Cesarean section delivery in May 2021 at Mount Sinai Hospital in North Lawndale, Illinois had one of her fallopian tubes tied immediately after the C-section before the doctor realized that the woman had not consented [...]

Federal Appellate Court Finds Chicago Not Responsible For Alleged Sexual Abuse By Paramedic

May 31, 2022

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion dated February 2, 2022: “Kylie DiDonato was seriously injured when she fell and hit her head in Tim Panatera’s bathroom. DiDonato later invoked § 1983 and alleged that Pa[...]

$101M Chicago Birth Injury Brain Damage Medical Malpractice Verdict

November 29, 2019

On November 5, 2019, a Chicago birth injury medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $101 million in favor of a now five-year-old child who suffered catastrophic brain damage as a result of medical negligence during his delivery. The birth injury jury trial lasted one month aft[...]

$2.3M Chicago Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Settlement Approved After Faulty Autopsy Finding Reversed

October 26, 2019

The $2.3 million settlement of a Chicago medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit was approved by the court on September 17, 2019. The case involved a 49-year-old woman who had routine gallbladder surgery at the defendant hospital, where she worked. The woman died during the surgery and an assista[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms General Verdict In Favor Of Medical Malpractice Defendants

October 20, 2019

The Appellate Court of Illinois First District (“Appellate Court”) on October 7, 2019 affirmed a general verdict in favor of the Illinois medical malpractice defendant, University of Chicago Medical Center, stating that when a jury returns a general verdict where more than one theory of [...]

University Of Chicago Pays $2.6M To Resolve $3M Medical Malpractice Judgment For Death Following Cardiac Catheterization

August 13, 2019

The University of Chicago has agreed to pay $2.6 million to resolve a $3 million medical malpractice judgment entered in May 2019 against it and a cardiologist in a Chicago medical malpractice wrongful death case. The settlement includes the agreement that the University of Chicago will drop its app[...]

$12M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict In Misdiagnosed Lung Cancer Case

August 19, 2018

On July 19, 2018, a Cook County, Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $12 million in a medical malpractice case against a radiologist and two family practice physicians for their alleged medical negligence in failing to diagnose a patient[...]

Illinois Supreme Court Refuses To Extend Apparent Authority Liability To Unrelated, Independent Medical Clinics

January 4, 2018

In a case decided by the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois (“Illinois Supreme Court”) on December 29, 2017, the Illinois Supreme Court held: “We refuse … to impose vicarious liability under the doctrine of apparent authority on a hospital for the care given by employees [...]

Illinois Supreme Court Holds Relation Back Statute Applied To Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Claim And Was Not Barred By Statute Of Repose

December 12, 2017

The Supreme Court of the State of Illinois (“Illinois Supreme Court”) stated in its opinion filed on November 30, 2017 that the plaintiff’s medical malpractice wrongful death cause of action accrued upon the decedent’s death, which occurred several months after the four-year repo[...]

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