Medical Malpractice

$32 million

Recovery for an 8-year-old girl whose four-limbs were amputated after a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of an infection, leading to severe septic shock.

$12 million

Recovery for a 37-year-old man who suffered the partial amputation of both of his legs and one of his arms after a hospital failed to give him antibiotics for a serious infection (Featured in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin).

$10 million

Recovery for a 33-year-old male who was left paraplegic and with limited ability to perform any of his daily activities after a brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) was missed during a concussion evaluation.

$10 million

Recovery for a brain-injured newborn after doctors failed to timely deliver the baby by cesarean section.

$9.3 million

Recovery for a 47-year-old woman left brain damaged and quadriplegic due to a stroke she suffered after a resident, who was placing a catheter, punctured her subclavian vein.

$9 million

Verdict for the wrongful death of a 40-year-old wife and mother of six children and her unborn seventh child after she suffered respiratory arrest due to pneumonia while in the hospital.

$8 million

Recovery for the wrongful death of a 43-year-old husband and father of two adult children who was left brain damaged and comatose for four years following the failure to treat a severe asthma attack in the emergency department.

$7.5 million

Recovery for an infant who suffered brain damage and developed cerebral palsy due to a delayed cesarean section after indications that the baby was not tolerating the labor well.

$6.75 million

Recovery for a 63-year-old woman left permanently brain damaged after a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of a neurological disorder.

$5,511,566

Verdict for the wrongful death of a 44-year-old man who died from a pulmonary embolism during a routine surgery to repair a dislocated knee.

$5.25 million

Recovery for the wrongful death of a 36-year-old woman after a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer.

$5 million

Recovery for the wrongful death of a 47-year-old wife and mother of three children who suffered brain bleeding while waiting in the ER to be seen by a doctor and have studies performed.

$4.4 million

Recovery for the wrongful death of a 28-year-old young man whose appendicular cancer was not diagnosed until it had reached Stage IV despite repeated visits to doctors over several years.

$3.5 million

Verdict for the wrongful death of a 40-year-old Hyatt executive who died after doctors failed to diagnose his colon cancer.

$3.4 million

Verdict for a 31-year-old woman who developed a flesh-eating bacterial infection following the surgical removal of her gallbladder, which resulted in the removal of nearly all of her abdominal muscle.

$3,399,728

Recovery for the wrongful death of a 66-year-old man who died from a spinal cord injury.

$3.2 million

Verdict for a baby boy who suffered a brachial plexus (injury to his shoulder) during his delivery from severe force on him by the delivery doctor.

$3 million

Verdict for the wrongful death of a Country Club Hills woman who doctors sent home without diagnosing or treating her pulmonary embolism.

$3 million

Recovery for the wrongful death of a 59-year-old mother of six after a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of an aortic dissection.

$3 million

Recovery for the death of a baby from infection after the parents had called his doctor’s answering service with an urgent message and no one returned their call.

$2.6 million

Verdict for the wrongful death of a 44-year-old man who died from a pulmonary embolism after back surgery (a record verdict in Adams County).

$2.5 million

Recovery for the wrongful death of a 49-year-old individual who died of negligently improper post-operative care at a Chicago hospital.

$2.3 million

Recovery for a DuPage County 58-year-old woman who had to have both of her legs amputated up to her hip after suffering an allergic reaction to drugs given to her by doctors during a vascular bypass surgery which doctors failed to diagnose.

$2.25 million

Recovery for the wrongful death of a 59-year-old woman who went into cardiac arrest after she received a toxic dose of lidocaine.

$2 million

Recovery for the wrongful death of a 10-month-old baby boy who died from sepsis after contracting bacterial colitis, which went undiagnosed.

$1.95 million

Recovery for the wrongful death of a 54-year-old woman who went to the ER for COPD and was admitted but intubated incorrectly and lost oxygen to her brain resulting in death.

$1.65 million

Verdict for the wrongful death of a 74-year-old Chicago woman whose renal cancer was not timely diagnosed by a physician group.

$1.5 million

Recovery for a 33-year-old mother who underwent radical hysterectomy, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy after a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer.

$1.251 million

Recovery for a Kane County baby girl left permanently disabled and disfigured after suffering shoulder dystocia during labor and delivery.

$1.2 million

Recovery for a 31-year-old woman forced to have her leg amputated due to an infection arising from an unnecessary surgery doctors decided to perform.