A $5 million birth injury lawsuit has been filed by a mother claiming that negligent prenatal care on the part of medical personnel caused her daughter to suffer a severe neurologic injury. According to the lawsuit, on June 2, 2010, the plaintiff was admitted to the labor and delivery unit of a hospital at Fort …
The Illinois Appellate Court recently ruled that an employer could not avoid a judgment for payment of the full workers’ compensation benefits owed to the estate of a deceased coal miner, in spite of the employer alleging that it was owed a credit due to its payments to the estate under the Black Lung Benefits …
UPDATE: In 2016, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Appellate Court in Moon V. Rhode Like all personal injury cases, wrongful death claims must be filed within a certain period of time. The timeframe in which a grieving family must bring a wrongful death claim is outlined in the relevant statute of …
A birth injury lawsuit has been filed by a mother who claims that negligence on the part of a certified nurse midwife caused her baby to experience a brachial plexus injury. The lawsuit was filed against a health care clinic funded by the federal government, so the United States of America is named as a …
Medication errors are one of the most common causes of medical malpractice, resulting in 1.3 million injuries per year, according to estimates from the FDA. A study of 50 pharmacies nationwide found a 1.7 percent error rate. With 4 billion prescriptions filled each year in the United States, that means there could be more than …
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has said that the state legislature must make business-friendly changes to the state’s workers’ compensation laws, or he will not sign off on a tax increase meant to avoid severe budget cuts. However, Democrats in the Illinois House said that a report released recently shows that the cost of the workers’ …
An Illinois judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit over the death of a 21-year-old woman whose body was found in the apartment of a man she had dated. The wrongful death lawsuit, filed by Molly Young’s father, was dismissed by Judge W. Charles Grace of the Jackson County Circuit Court. The lawsuit had been …
This month’s Chicago Injury Alerts talks about Fiat Chrysler’s record fine and the battle in congress to make cars safer. https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/briskmanandbriskman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/bbg-pod-auto-safety-aug-2015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the family of a woman who died, allegedly from a drug-resistant superbug infection after being examined with a medical scope. The lawsuit was filed by the family of Antonia Torres Cerda, 48, who died in November, and was allegedly infected by deadly bacteria following a liver transplant. …
An Illinois doctor seeks dismissal of a medical malpractice lawsuit filed against him. The lawsuit claims that the doctor perforated a patient’s bladder during a hysterectomy. The doctor’s motion to dismiss claims that a report by a reviewing health care professional was not filed on time. According to the lawsuit, an outpatient hysterectomy and oophorectomy …
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