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$2,865,495 Medical Malpractice Judgment Against Podiatrist Upheld By Illinois Appellate Court

July 22, 2025

The Appellate Court of Illinois First District First Division upheld an Illinois medical malpractice judgment against a podiatrist in the amount of $2,865,495, in its Order dated May 19, 2025. Background One December 13, 2016, plaintiff, who had been previously diagnosed with osteoporosis and Type 1[...]

Illinois Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For 28-Year-Old’s Death From Misdiagnosed Aortic Dissection

May 7, 2025

A 28-year-old man went to the emergency room of an Illinois hospital on April 27, 2023 with complaints of chest pain, blurred vision, dizziness, lightheadedness, and difficulty breathing. He told the medical staff that his symptoms began two days prior, that he started vomiting the day before his ER[...]

Illinois Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Surgical Sponge Left In Man’s Neck For Four Months

April 10, 2025

According to an Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit filed in January 2025 against Northwestern McHenry Hospital, a surgeon, and others, the 71-year-old plaintiff had surgery to remove a mass in his neck and to dissect a lymph node on the left side of his neck, on January 31, 2023. In the weeks that[...]

$66M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Plastic Surgeon For Patient’s Death Following Liposuction

February 13, 2025

On December 20, 2024, an Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against a plastic surgeon in the amount of $56 million, which was increased to $66.262 million once interest was added in. The Illinois medical malpractice trial lasted one week after which the jury deliberated for three[...]

$41 Million Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Lawyer Who Suffered Avoidable Stroke

July 17, 2024

In early May 2024, after a one-month trial, a Cook County, Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a now 72-year-old lawyer who suffered a serious stroke because his medical providers failed to properly manage his anticogulation medication. On February 28, 2016, the lawyer[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Revives Hip Replacement Surgery Res Ipsa Loquitur Medical Malpractice Case

December 1, 2021

In its Opinion filed on October 28, 2021, the Appellate Court of Illinois Fourth District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) stated in a surgical hip replacement medical malpractice case: “a plaintiff need demonstrate only a prima facie case of the elements of res ipsa loquitur to be ent[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Discusses Role Of Consultant Experts In Medical Malpractice Case

March 30, 2019

The issue decided by the Appellate Court of Illinois First District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) in its opinion dated March 15, 2019 was whether a party who has disclosed a witness as a testifying expert may thereafter redesignate that witness as a consultant whose opinions and work prod[...]

Neurosurgeon Testifies During Negligent Credentialing Trial In Illinois

December 18, 2018

A neurosurgeon who allegedly operated on the wrong side of a patient’s spine, causing the patient to suffer a severe injury, testified on behalf of the defendant hospital on November 28, 2018 in an Illinois case alleging that the hospital where the surgery was performed was negligent in creden[...]

$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[...]

$2.4M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Undiagnosed Bowel Obstruction

November 25, 2013

A 47-year-old nurse had severe back pain and abdominal pain for which she went to a local hospital emergency room on March 10, 2007. The nurse had gastric bypass surgery two years earlier, for which bowel obstruction is a known risk. Despite the woman’s symptoms and her history of prior gastr[...]

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[...]

Chicago Nursing Home Malpractice Claim Alleges 57 Maggots Found in Resident’s Ear

December 9, 2012

On November 28, 2012, the family of a 92-year-old Chicago-area nursing home resident filed a medical malpractice nursing home claim against the woman’s nursing home after 57 maggots were found living in her left ear. The maggots were discovered on September 16, 2012, when a nurse at the nursi[...]

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