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$20M Illinois Medical Malpractice Settlement For Lawyer’s Misdiagnosed Brain Aneurysm

November 28, 2016

On November 21, 2016, an Illinois judge approved a $20 million medical malpractice settlement reached during an Illinois medical malpractice trial that began on October 28, 2016, for the serious brain injury suffered by a 50-year-old attorney in 2012 after he suffered a stroke two days after being e[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Discusses Forum Non Conveniens Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Case

November 22, 2016

In its opinion filed on November 10, 2016, the Appellate Court of Illinois Fifth District (“Appellate Court”) discussed the application of the forum non conveniens doctrine in a medical malpractice case, affirming the trial court’s denial of the Illinois medical malpractice defenda[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In Kidney Biopsy Case

November 20, 2016

In it decision filed on November 10, 2016, the Appellate Court of Illinois First Judicial District Sixth Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) affirmed an Illinois medical practice defense verdict, stating that in reviewing a medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the defen[...]

Illinois Supreme Court Discusses Discovery Rule In Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Cases

October 25, 2016

In a case it decided on September 22, 2016, the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois (“Illinois Supreme Court”) rejected the defendants’ argument that the statute of limitations in an Illinois medical malpractice wrongful death case begins to run on the date of death as a matter [...]

$11M Illinois Medical Malpractice Settlement For Child’s Heart Transplant Needed After Botched Cardiac Procedure

September 2, 2016

An Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit filed in 2009 after a botched cardiac procedure performed in November 2005 on a then 10-year-old child was recently settled for $11 million. The child’s mother had filed the Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit on behalf of her son after he suffered a ve[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Reinstates Full Amount Of Medical Expenses In Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 3, 2016

In its opinion filed on July 15, 2016, the Appellate Court of Illinois Fourth District (“Appellate Court”) reinstated an Illinois medical malpractice jury’s award of medical expenses to the plaintiff in the amount of $133,347.91, which the trial judge had reduced by $91,724.03, [...]

$53M Chicago Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury

July 12, 2016

On June 29, 2016, a 12-person Chicago medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $53 million for the severe and permanent brain injury resulting in cerebral palsy suffered by a newborn who was delivered at the University of Chicago Medical Center in 200[...]

$9M Federal Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Pregnant Woman In The Hospital

May 23, 2016

Earlier this month, a federal medical malpractice jury in Illinois returned its advisory verdict in favor of the plaintiff after which the federal judge affirmed a $9 million award in a federal medical malpractice case that claimed that a federally-funded hospital, a physician, and a nurse were medi[...]

Illinois Lawsuit Alleges Elderly Woman In Wheelchair Died After She Was Abandoned At Dialysis Center

May 2, 2016

The family of a 71-year-old woman who died after allegedly being abandoned in a dialysis center in Illinois following the staff exiting the back door of the center at the end of the workday have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the dialysis center, the nursing home where the woman resided, [...]

Illinois Appellate Court Discusses Interplay Of Three Statutes In Medical Malpractice Case

April 17, 2016

In its decision filed on March 25, 2016, the Illinois First District Appellate Court (“Appellate Court”) discussed the interplay among three relevant statutes in an Illinois medical malpractice case. The Appellate Court ultimately held that the relation back doctrine applied so the wron[...]

$5M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Bleeding After Robotic Surgery

April 2, 2016

An Illinois medical malpractice jury took four and a half hours over a two-day period to decide on March 24, 2016 to return its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in excess of $5 million, after a nine-day trial. The plaintiffs were the surviving husband and the three children of a woman who bled[...]

Illinois $4.7M Medical Malpractice Verdict Upheld On Appeal Based On Apparent Agency

February 8, 2016

By its decision filed on December 31, 2015, the Appellate Court of Illinois First Judicial Circuit Second District (“Appellate Court”) upheld the $4.7 million verdict against the defendant hospital despite the defendant hospital arguing that it could not be held liable for the alleged me[...]

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