Illinois Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 7 of 14

Illinois Supreme Court Remands Birth Injury Informed Consent Claim To Trial Court

May 16, 2020

The Supreme Court of the State of Illinois (“Illinois Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on April 2, 2020 that the Illinois birth injury medical malpractice plaintiffs failed to file the appropriate post-trial motion regarding the jury’s defense verdict on their medical negl[...]

Illinois Governor Grants Blanket, All-Encompassing Immunity To Many Health Care Professionals For Their Medical Negligence During COVID-19 Crisis

April 10, 2020

On April 1 (April Fools’ Day), 2020, Illinois’ Governor issued Executive Order 2020-19 which provides, in part: “I direct that during the pendency of the Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamations, Health Care Professionals, as defined in Section 1 of this Executive Order, shall be immun[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants In Misdiagnosis Of Brain Bleed Wrongful Death Case

April 4, 2020

An Illinois Appellate Court, in its opinion filed on March 2, 2020, reversed summary judgment for the defendants in an Illinois medical malpractice wrongful death action where the plaintiff alleged that the decedent was brought to Swedish Covenant’s emergency department after experiencing a severe[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Where Expert Not Allowed To Demonstrate Medical Procedure

February 27, 2020

The Appellate Court of Illinois First Judicial District Fifth Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) held in its Order filed on February 7, 2020 that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by refusing to allow the Illinois medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert to perform a de[...]

$11M Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Verdict For Prisoner With Cancer

January 13, 2020

An Illinois prisoner who claimed that the healthcare provider at the prison where he was incarcerated was more concerned with saving money than diagnosing and treating his cancer, has obtained a $11 million medical malpractice verdict for the deliberate indiffernce to his civil rights. The Illinois [...]

Illinois Appellate Court Rules Patient’s Mental Health Records Not Relevant In Brain Injury Medical Malpractice Case

December 16, 2019

In its opinion filed on October 28, 2019, the Appellate Court of Illinois First District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) ruled: “the trial court erred in granting defendants’ motion to compel because plaintiff did not place Kiersten’s mental condition at issue by claiming brain da[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Where Defendant And His Attorney Assisted Ill Juror In Jury Room

December 10, 2019

The Appellate Court of Illinois First District Second Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on November 19, 2019 that the Illinois medical malpractice plaintiffs were not entitled to a mistrial after the defendant doctor and his defense counsel treated a juror w[...]

Federal Appeals Court Remands District Court’s Medical Malpractice Verdict For Proper Consideration of Plaintiff’s Comparative Negligence

December 1, 2019

In its opinion dated November 7, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) remanded a federal judge’s nearly $30 million medical malpractice verdict under the Federal Tort Claims Act in favor of the plaintiff, finding that the fede[...]

Federal Seventh Circuit Holds Illinois’s Expert Affidavit Requirement Applies In Federal Medical Malpractice Case

November 14, 2019

In our blog posting on November 11, 2019, we reported on the published opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (“Sixth Circuit”) dated November 7, 2019 that addressed whether a federal inmate who had surgery while imprisoned in a federal prison in Ohio that le[...]

How Hard Is It To Prove Medical Malpractice?

November 9, 2019

“How hard is it to prove medical malpractice?” We get this question a lot. Even if it seems “obvious” that a physician or other medical provider was negligent (for example, when a surgeon operates on the wrong body part, such as operating on the left knee instead of the right[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Defense Verdict In Wrong Site Back Surgery Case

November 8, 2019

The Appellate Court of Illinois Second District (“Illinois Appellate Court”), in its Order dated October 22, 2019, affirmed the medical malpractice defense verdict in an Illinois medical malpractice case where the defendant surgeon planned to operate on the 54-year-old plaintiff’s [...]

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 [...]

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