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Illinois Appellate Court Revives Dismissed Medical Malpractice Case Due To Misconduct And Serious Illness Of Plaintiff’s Lawyers

October 20, 2022

Court Revives Case Due To Misconduct; Serious Illness Of Lawyer: The Appellate Court of Illinois First Judicial District Second Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) stated in its Order dated February 1, 2022 in an Illinois medical malpractice case where the plaintiff’s first lawye[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Law Firm In Legal Malpractice Case Involving Underlying Medical Malpractice Case

July 22, 2022

On May 6, 2022, the Appellate Court of Illinois First District Sixth Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) affirmed summary judgment for a law firm that the plaintiff alleged committed legal malpractice in representing her in a medical malpractice case, holding, “plaintiff did not [...]

Illinois Appellate Court Finds No Apparent Authority In Finding For Hospital In Catheter Medical Malpractice Case

May 28, 2022

Background Facts On March 19, 2012, plaintiff presented to an immediate-care facility complaining of abdominal pain. Following orders given to him at the immediate-care center, plaintiff went to defendant’s outpatient department for diagnostic imaging. Plaintiff was diagnosed with acute appendicit[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment As Discovery Violation Sanction In Medical Malpractice Case

November 23, 2021

In its Order filed on October 14, 2021, the Appellate Court of Illinois Fourth District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) held that in denying the plaintiff’s motion seeking to extend his time to disclose Illinois Supreme Court Rule 213(f) expert witness information, the circuit court incor[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms $1.25M Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Spine Surgeon

November 17, 2021

In July 2014, Chaya R. Brunk and Raymond Brunk filed an Illinois medical malpractice action against defendants Stephen J. Pineda, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon, and Springfield Clinic, LLP. In June 2015, the plaintiffs filed a second amended complaint against the defendants, alleging Dr. Pineda deviat[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To Improper Closing Argument

December 29, 2020

The Appellate Court of Illinois Second District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed December 7, 2020 in an Illinois medical malpractice case: “the evidence in this case was closely balanced, making it highly probable that the repeated improper comments during clo[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In Misdiagnosed Infection Case

October 21, 2020

The Illinois Appellate Court First District Fourth Division, in its opinion filed on September 10, 2020, upheld a defense verdict in an Illinois medical malpractice case where the plaintiff alleged that the defendant physician negligently failed to diagnose him with sepsis, failed to refer him to th[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict To Allow Res Ipsa Loquitur Argument

August 1, 2020

The Appellate Court of Illinois First District First Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated June 15, 2020, “We find that Willis [the plaintiff] presented sufficient evidence to permit a jury to decide whether she proved that defendants controlled the instru[...]

Illinois Supreme Court Holds EMS Act Does Not Provide Immunity To Ambulance Driver On Way To Pick Up Nonemergency Patient

July 29, 2020

The Supreme Court of the State of Illinois (“Illinois Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on June 18, 2020 that section 3.150 of the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act (EMS Act) (210 ILCS 50/3.150 (West 2016)) does not provide immunity from liability to an ambulance owner and i[...]

$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[...]

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