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Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawyer Blog 
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By Hurley, McKenna & Mertz
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BCBS of Illinois to Refuse to Pay for Medical Errors
Posted on August 08, 2008A recent article in the Chicago Tribune reports that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois will start to refuse to compensate physicians and hospitals for poor medical care that results in an injury to a patient. Previsouly, payment was expected even if there were major errors that resulted in an injury to the patient...
Hurley McKenna & Mertz Files Suit for Murder of Nursing Home Resident
Posted on June 11, 2008Hurley McKenna & Mertz has filed a suit under the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act against Somerset Nursing Home of Chicago alleging civil violations of Illinois state law arising out of the violent murder of a resident of the nursing home. The suit alleges that the nursing home negligently permitted the resident, who was under physician orders to be supervised at all times by nursing home staff due to a history of seizures from a brain tumor, to leave the nursing home without any supervision...
Apologies can be more effective than an army of defense lawyers
Posted on May 20, 2008University of Illinois Hospital has adopted the approach of the University of Michigan in dealing with medical errors. Rather than run from the truth doctors involved in medical malpractice are being honest with the victim and apologizing. The result has been fewer lawsuits and less cost for malpractice litigation...
Abused Boy Scouts
Posted on November 20, 2007Today Hurley McKenna & Mertz filed suit in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County against Charles Bickerstaff, The Boy Scouts of America and the Blackhawk Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Charles Bickerstaff is a 57 man that served as an executive for the Boy Scouts of America for 33 years before he retired...
Suit filed against Boy Scouts of America and Charles Bickerstaff
Posted on November 20, 2007Today Chicago law firm Hurley McKenna & Mertz, filed suit against Charles Bickerstaff and the Boy Scouts of America and the Black Hawk Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America for civil damages arising out of the sexual abuse of their minor client while Bickerstaff was the Senior District Executive for the Black hawk Area Council in Rockford, Illinois...
Caps on Damages Unconstitutional for Victims of Malpractice
Posted on November 16, 2007In a victory for victims of negligent medical care in Illinois, Circuit Court of Cook County Judge Diane Larsen, ruled that caps on damages for medical malpractice are not constitutional in Illinois. The case will now proceed to the Illinois Supreme Court where the justices will address the constitutionality of the caps...
Product Liability
Posted on November 12, 2007?The Bush administration, responding to a wave of recent food and product recalls, is set to announce today its most aggressive regulatory proposals yet on policing imports. But much of their success depends on congressional action, and some lawmakers and outside experts already contend they are inadequate...
Woman Ignored in Emergency Room Files Suit
Posted on November 12, 2007As a Chicago medical malpractice lawyer I wish I could say that things like this never happened: ?The family of a woman who died earlier this year after collapsing on an emergency room's floor as she waited for treatment has filed a $45 million lawsuit against the county...
Boy Scout sex abuse
Posted on October 29, 2007This story from Idaho provides an excellent example of why there should be no statute of limitations for sex abuse cases. Children fear telling the story and as in this case in Idaho when the story does get told there are forces in the community that lash out at the victims...
Medtronic Leads may be riskier for children
Posted on October 27, 2007?The defibrillator leads pulled off the market this week by Medtronic Inc. may pose a higher risk of fracture in younger adults and children, a population for whom the devices were particularly popular in part because of their small diameter. Children make up a relatively small share of patients who receive the implanted devices...
FDA approval does not insure a the safety of a medical device
Posted on October 27, 2007As a Chicago medical malpractice lawyer I have known for a long time that drugs and medical devices are not necessarily safe just because the FDA says so. The fact is that the FDA is full of people that either used to or want to work for the drug and medical device companies...
Medical Care on Cruises
Posted on October 27, 2007Cruise lines seem to want it both ways. They want you to feel secure knowing there is a doctor on board but they do not want to take responsibility when the doctor is negligent. The Wall Street Journal reports: ?In October 2005, during her 37th wedding anniversary cruise aboard Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd...
Why are medical errors kept secret?
Posted on October 27, 2007Before you check into a Chicago hospital wouldn't it be nice to see some statistics on medical errors. That information is available but not to the public. Why not? My guess is it has to do with money. Hospitals with bad safety records are afraid to lose patients and revenue if their safety records became public...
Madison County Adopts Rule Requiring Mediation
Posted on October 16, 2007As a Chicago medical malpractice lawyer I would be happy to see a similar rule in Cook County. Too often cases that should settle do not even come close to settling until the eve of trial. Madison County has addressed this: "The Illinois Supreme Court has approved rules adopted this year by the Madison County court for handling medical malpractice cases, Chief Judge Ann Callis said Wednesday...
Insurance Companies Avoid Paying Claims
Posted on October 16, 2007As a Chicago medical Malpractice lawyer I have long experienced insurance comapanies that do not pay their claims until they absolutely have to pay. Consider this: "We've known the insurance company game for a long time. We just didn't have any proof...
Hospital Liability Claims at 8 Year Low
Posted on October 16, 2007"Hospitals of all sizes that that cover their primary professional liability risks through alternative risk-financing measures are keeping their claim frequency and severity rates to eight-year lows, according to a new study. The frequency of claims for the 1,000 facilities?part of 80 health care organizations?that participated in the study did not increase for the third consecutive year, reports the '2007 Hospital Professional Liability and Physician Liability Benchmark Analysis...
McDonalds Liable in Sex Abuse Case
Posted on October 16, 2007?A jury awarded $6.1 million Friday to a woman who said she was forced to strip in a McDonald's back office after someone called the restaurant posing as a police officer. Louise Ogborn, 21 years old, had sued McDonald's Corp., claiming the fast-food giant failed to warn her and other employees about the caller who already struck other McDonald's stores and other fast-food restaurants across the country...
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