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Jury Finds for Doctor in Case Alleging Improper Treatment of Peptic Ulcer Disease

In a Cook County medical malpractice lawsuit, a patient’s surviving family members filed a medical negligence lawsuit claiming that the doctor had misdiagnosed the patient’s disease and elected not to properly treat it. However, a jury found in favor of the defendant doctor after determining that the doctor’s actions did…

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$8 Million Verdict Against Nursing Home for Resident’s Broken Leg

Doctors and nurses have a responsibility to advocate for their patients and to exercise due diligence in making sure their patients’ needs are being met. That responsibility increases when the patients cannot speak on their own behalf, e.g. when the patient is a child, in a coma, or perhaps a…

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Illinois Appellate Court Affirms That Nursing Home Care Act Deadline is Directory Rather Than Mandatory – UDI #10, LLC v. Department of Public Health

As part of an effort to reform Illinois nursing homes, government agencies are attempting to increase their oversight of potential nursing home violations. When the Department of Public Health went to investigate potential nursing home policy violation at an Illinois facility, the Illinois nursing home facility accused the health agency…

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$500,000 Settlement After Jury Deadlock Over Patient’s Death From Pain Medication Overdose – Estate of Prehn v. Dr. Amin

In TV and movie trial dramas, we are always shown a jury hotly debating over the case facts, with one or two jurors holding out against the rest of the jury. However, in Illinois, in order for a jury verdict to stand it needs to be unanimous. This means that…

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Jury Holds for Doctor When Patient Dies After Trach Tube Dislodged – Estate of Holliday v. Dr. Panush

As patients, we entrust our health and well-being to our physicians and rely on their expertise to make us well. Perhaps this trust is nowhere more obvious than in Intensive Care Units (ICU), where most patients’ lives are hanging in the balance. The wrongful death lawsuit of Estate of Tyrone…

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Illinois Appellate Court Agrees With Trial Judge that No Contributory Negligence Jury Instruction in Suicide Case – Graham, etc. v. Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Jury instructions are invaluable in helping jurors make decisions that are in accordance with the law. It is through jury instructions that jurors are able to understand what questions they need to answer and how. Yet when a jury is given incorrect jury instructions it can bias its opinion and…

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Jury Finds for Doctor in Colon Perforation in Bypass Surgery Death – Estate of Dornhecker v. Dr. Applebaum

Despite testimony that a quicker response by a Cook County hospital’s staff could have increased a patient’s chance of survival by ten percent, a Chicago jury finds in favor of the defendant doctors and hospital. The Cook County medical malpractice lawsuit of Estate of Edward W. Dornhecker, deceased v. Dr.…

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Doctor, Nurse and Nursing Home Acquitted in Cook County Criminal Abuse Case

In order to prove medical negligence, a plaintiff needs to demonstrate that the doctors or nurses operated outside of the standard of care, i.e. the regular level of care required in a given situation. If the plaintiff fails to demonstrate that the doctors or nurses acted outside the normal standards,…

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Appellate Court Affirms Denial to Transfer Medical Malpractice Case From Cook County to Kankakee County – Isom v. Riverside Medical Center

A Cook County judge denied a defendant’s motion for a change of venue in an Illinois wrongful death case despite the fact that several defendants and witnesses did not live in Cook County. And even though the trial judge did deny the venue change, he expressed his discomfort with the…

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