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Chicago Hospital To Pay $17M Now For Medical Malpractice In 2003

March 20, 2014

On September 6, 2003, a 13-year-old boy was brought to a Chicago hospital’s emergency room due to a fever and generally not feeling well. Significantly, the boy had a prior history of bacterial endocarditis in 1996 (bacterial endocarditis is a serious and sometimes fatal condition where ther[...]

Illinois Medical Malpractice Case Alleges Cerebral Palsy Birth Injury

December 25, 2013

In a medical malpractice case filed on December 6, 2013 in the Circuit Court of Cook County (Illinois), the parents of a newborn allege that their baby suffered severe hypoxic ischemia due to lack of oxygen, hemorrhaging, and hydrocephalus, and has cerebral palsy, allegedly as a result of the me[...]

Chicago Hospital Pulmonologist Alleged To have Performed Unnecessary Tracheotomies

June 25, 2013

Some say that medicine is a cut-throat business. A hospital on the west side of Chicago applied that adage literally. According to the FBI, a Chicago for-profit hospital was able to bill as much as $160,000 for patients who received unnecessary tracheotomies due to a pulmonologist on the hospita[...]

Chicago Woman Loses Hip Implant Lawsuit

April 21, 2013

On April 16, 2013, a Chicago jury returned a defense verdict in favor of DePuy Orthopaedics, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, after deliberating for just over one day after a five-week trial. This was only the second jury trial of the almost 11,000 lawsuits filed against DePuy Orthopaedics (inclu[...]

Chicago Nursing Home Verdict

March 25, 2013

On March 20, 2013, a Cook County jury returned its verdict in the amount of $842,801 in favor of an 87-year-old resident of the Kenwood Healthcare Center in Chicago who had fallen at the nursing home on December 26, 2008 and suffered a broken hip, fractured pelvis, and fractured shoulder, all on h[...]

Medical Malpractice Claim For Death Following Hernia Surgery

February 14, 2013

On December 15, 2005, a 61-year-old man went to the hospital to have hernia repair surgery. After his surgery, he experienced increasing abdominal pain, he started to vomit, and he had other serious symptoms. It was later determined that the man had an inflamed colon, possibly due to the antibioti[...]

Medication Mistake Leads To Illinois Medical Malpractice Claim

January 5, 2013

On January 2, 2013, a medical malpractice claim was filed in Illinois against a nursing home in which it is alleged that medication mistakes led to a resident’s death. The medical malpractice lawsuit claims that the wrong dosage of medication and the improper combination of medications by two [...]

Chicago Nursing Home Malpractice Claim Alleges 57 Maggots Found in Resident’s Ear

December 9, 2012

On November 28, 2012, the family of a 92-year-old Chicago-area nursing home resident filed a medical malpractice nursing home claim against the woman’s nursing home after 57 maggots were found living in her left ear. The maggots were discovered on September 16, 2012, when a nurse at the nursi[...]

Chicago Psychiatrist Charged With Receiving Illegal Kickbacks And Filing False Claims

November 17, 2012

The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois announced on November 15, 2012 the filing of a civil fraud lawsuit against a Chicago psychiatrist, alleging that the psychiatrist received illegal kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing anti-psychotic drugs and had [...]

$7 Million Chicago Medical Malpractice Verdict For Asthma Death In ER

August 12, 2012

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012, a Cook County, Illinois medical malpractice jury awarded the medical malpractice plaintiff $7 million after a three-week trial, for a man who died in a local hospital emergency room after he had suffered an asthma attack at home. The Chicago truck driver was alone at hom[...]

Medical Malpractice Claim For Transplanted Pancreas That Was Cancerous

August 4, 2012

On July 9, 2012, a woman in Illinois filed a medical malpractice claim against her transplant surgeon claiming that he transplanted into her a pancreas that had cancer. While the reason why the woman needed a pancreas transplant was not divulged, the life-saving surgery is typically performed on ve[...]

Chicago Medical Malpractice Results In Elderly Man Freezing To Death

February 14, 2012

The 77-year-old male resident of a Chicago nursing home had a habit of wandering off from the premises. With a history of two previous recent incidents when he had wandered away, he was a known risk for leaving the nursing home without being seen. The man’s dementia made it difficult for him[...]

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