Illinois Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 9 of 14

Illinois Appellate Court Applies Res Judicata To Dismiss Some Medical Malpractice Claims

November 23, 2018

In an Order dated November 7, 2018, the Appellate Court of Illinois First District Second Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) applied res judicata in dismissing some of the plaintiff’s Illinois medical malpractice claims. The Illinois Appellate Court held that the involuntary dis[...]

$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 Appellate Court Reduces Medical Malpractice Verdict For Future Damages By $15M Because Plaintiff Died During Jury Deliberation

February 23, 2018

The Illinois Appellate Court, Second Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) in its decision filed on February 6, 2018 held that the Illinois medical malpractice jury’s award of $22 million to the plaintiff must be reduced by $15 million, the portion of the award for future damages, [...]

Illinois Appellate Court Discusses Personal Practice Testimony In Medical Malpractice Cases

January 9, 2018

The Appellate Court of Illinois Second District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) held in an opinion filed on December 29, 2017 that the trial court had inappropriately allowed evidence during an Illinois medical malpractice trial that the plaintiff’s expert had himself caused injury to[...]

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 Appellate Court Applies General Verdict Rule In Affirming Nearly $7.9M Medical Malpractice Verdict

December 18, 2017

The December 1, 2017 majority opinion of the Appellate Court of Illinois First District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) upheld the $7,884,761.76 medical malpractice judgment entered against the medical malpractice defendants despite finding that the trial court erroneously denied the defend[...]

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[...]

$15M Chicago Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Settlement

August 8, 2017

A Chicago hospital reportedly has agreed to settle birth injury medical malpractice claims against it, without admitting liability, for $15 million. The Chicago birth injury settlement was reached on July 17, 2017 and was approved by a judge before the Chicago medical malpractice lawsuit was dismiss[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Upholds $1.7M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Cancer Misdiagnosed As Benign Meningioma

June 7, 2017

The Appellate Court of Illinois Third District (“Appellate Court”) affirmed in its April 24, 2017 opinion, an Illinois medical malpractice jury’s award of $1,727,409.50 to the wife and the estate of a man who died because the defendant neuropathologist who read the biopsy slide[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Defense Verdict In Pacemaker Replacement Surgery Claim

January 27, 2017

The Appellate Court of Illinois, First Judicial District (“Appellate Court”) affirmed a defense verdict in an Illinois medical malpractice case in its opinion filed on December 2, 2016. The parents of a minor child who died following her pacemaker replacement surgery at the defendant hos[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Denies Defense Ex Parte Communication With Treating Physician – Sort Of

January 4, 2017

In its opinion filed on December 22, 2016, an Illinois Appellate Court held that defense counsel was prohibited from having any ex parte communication with the plaintiff’s subsequent treating physician, who is the managing partner and therefore part of the control group of the podiatry group t[...]

Illinois Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Psychiatrist In Suicide Case

December 30, 2016

On December 8, 2016, an Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant psychiatrist and his psychiatry practice in a psychiatrist malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendants were negligent in the psychiatric care provided to her suicidal husb[...]

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