Sperm Bank Meltdown Leads To 40 Lawsuits
August 24, 2013
On August 20, 2013, forty (40) lawsuits were filed in the Cook County Circuit Court (Illinois) against Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation on behalf of men whose frozen sperm specimens that were stored by the defendants so that they could possibly become bi[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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Medical Malpractice Settlements May Cost Cook County $24 Million
February 11, 2013
Cook County, Illinois is facing the possibility that it will pay $24 million in medical malpractice settlements related to its public health system. Upwards of $20 million may be paid to settle one medical malpractice claim involving a now 3-year-old who suffered permanent irreversible brain dam[...]
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