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Illinois Appellate Court Affirms $14M Medical Malpractice Verdict

June 16, 2021

The Appellate Court of Illinois Fourth District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) upheld a $14 million medical malpractice jury verdict in its opinion filed on May 28, 2021. The Underlying Facts On September 21, 2012, plaintiff, Mark Allen, felt a “pop” in his neck and began to experience[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Rules Order For Genetic Testing Of Parents Was Premature In Birth Injury Lawsuit

May 28, 2021

The Appellate Court of Illinois Fourth District (“Illinois Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on May 4, 2021 “without any findings or analysis for this court to review concerning the parental testing, we find it would be premature to consider the correctness of the decisio[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Overturns $50.3M Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 29, 2020

In its opinion filed on August 21, 2020, an Illinois Appellate Court overturned a $50.3 million birth injury medical malpractice verdict, stating: “The jury heard extensive expert testimony on both sides that led to conflicting opinions as to the cause of Julien’s brain injury. Defendants’[...]

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 [...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Zero Damages Award In Medical Malpractice Case Where Jury Found The Defendant Nurse Negligent

October 18, 2019

An Illinois Appellate Court (First District Second Division) has affirmed a zero damages medical malpractice verdict even though the Illinois medical malpractice jury determined that the defendant nurse was negligent in injecting the plaintiff with another patient’s allergy medicine after whic[...]

$4.8M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Cut Ureter During Abdominal Surgery

April 9, 2019

On March 27, 2019, a Vermilion, Illinois medical malpractice jury awarded the estate of a woman who suffered serious urological injuries during abdominal surgery more than $4.8 million in an Illinois medical malpractice case filed against the surgeon. The Illinois medical malpractice jury awarded $4[...]

$20.6M Illinois Medical Malpractice Settlement For Man Who Became Paralyzed Due To Hospital Medical Negligence

March 1, 2019

A now 64-year-old Illinois man has settled his Illinois medical malpractice case that alleged that he became paralyzed because the defendants failed to timely diagnose and treat his ruptured aneurysm. As a result of the misdiagnosis, the man unnecessarily became paralyzed, he had to have several toe[...]

$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 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[...]

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[...]

Chicago Hospital Pulmonologist Alleged To have Performed Unnecessary Tracheotomies

June 25, 2013

Some say that medicine is a cut-throat business. A hospital on the west side of Chicago applied that adage literally. According to the FBI, a Chicago for-profit hospital was able to bill as much as $160,000 for patients who received unnecessary tracheotomies due to a pulmonologist on the hospita[...]

Illinois Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Overturned On Appeal

June 23, 2013

On May 24, 2013, the Appellate Court of Illinois Fourth Circuit (“Appellate Court”) overturned a medical malpractice verdict in favor of the defendants because the trial court impermissibly allowed the defendants’ lawyer to question the plaintiff’s medical expert in front of [...]

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