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Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog

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By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

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Last Entry: June 10, 2020 at 09:37:56

State Legislature Holds Hospitals Accountable

Posted on September 12, 2009
A state government recently passed legislation authorizing the state to release records of hospital medical errors. The legislation focuses on preventable errors such as operating on the wrong side of one?s body, leaving a sponge in the body after surgery, or operating on the wrong person all together...

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits do not End in Higher Insurance Premiums

Posted on September 11, 2009
While insurance companies claim that medical malpractice claims are the primary driver behind the high prices doctors pay for insurance. However, the statistics show that this statement is false. One national study found that while payouts did decline in the nineteen states that had caps, premiums in capped states rose far faster than those in uncapped states...

Call to Members of Congress to Oppose Medical Malpractice Reform

Posted on September 10, 2009
In response to President Obama's speech to Congress on healthcare reform, the American Association of Justice, medical malpractice attorneys, and victims of medical malpractice urge you to contact your U.S. Representatives and Senators to say no to tort reform as part of the larger push for healthcare reform...

People Over Profits - Write Your Congressman and Senators

Posted on September 09, 2009
Yesterday, Chicago medical malpractice attorneys Levin & Perconti posted a link to the People Over Profits website which allows people to send an email to the White House, urging the President to keep tort reform off of the health care bill currently being debated in Congress...

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The Truth about Medical Malpractice Tort Reform

Posted on September 09, 2009
While the health care debate rages on, many Americans have the wrong idea as to what is driving health care premiums. Health care costs are rising faster than the overall economy, wages and general consumer prices. However, the belief that increases due to excess insurer profits, the aging of America and the high cost of medical malpractice are the blame for the failing health care system are wrong and unfounded...

Stand Up Against Medical Malpractice Reform

Posted on September 08, 2009
As medical malpractice attorneys who represent victims of medical negligence and their families, we encourage you to contact your representatives to keep medical malpractice reform out of the health care bill. Proponents of medical malpractice reform argue that reform will drastically cut health care costs, however, in 2005, the Congressional Budget Office found that medical malpractice claims account for "less than 2 percent" of health care spending...

Several Hospitals Fined

Posted on September 08, 2009
A series of hospitals have been fined for serious medical violations, according to an article. Some of these medical violations led to either serious bodily harm or even death. At one particular hospital, a child suffered serious brain injury after the nursing staff failed to drain his head properly...

Misdiagnosis Leads to Woman?s Death

Posted on September 07, 2009
A misdiagnosis of cancer led to a woman?s death. The woman?s mother had died of cancer so she was particularly concerned when she discovered a large bump on the top of her head. After seeing her doctor, he claimed the cyst was nonmalignant. It was removed a week later by a medical technician who then disposed of the cyst and did not send it for medical testing...

Legislative Update: Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders

Posted on September 06, 2009
Public 96-765 amends the the Health Care Surrogate Act affecting Do-Not-Resuscitate orders. It makes three changes: (1) Requires only one witness instead of two. (2) Requires that the witness attest that the person executing the DNR order was given an opportunity to read the form and either signed the form or acknowledged his or her signature or mark on the form in the witness's presence...

Medical Mistake Leads to Hospital Sued

Posted on September 05, 2009
A surgical patient is suing a hospital because he claims the doctor removed the wrong kidney. The patient hired a medical malpractice attorney who claims the doctor removed the healthy kidney before realizing the mistake he had made by not removing the diseased kidney...

Jury Awards Huge Verdict to Child

Posted on September 04, 2009
A jury awarded a brain-damaged child $7.4 million against her doctors while she was a newborn. The jury found that the child?s doctors were negligent when they failed to promptly treat an infection the child developed. The child?s medical malpractice attorneys claimed it took eight hours before the child was treated for the infection...

Nurses? Negligence Leave Newborns Dead and Brain Damaged

Posted on September 03, 2009
Nurses mistakenly gave two pregnant women a drug that helps induce labor for unborn fetuses. This drug led to the death of a women?s unborn twins while the second women gave birth to a severely brain damaged newborn. One woman is now suing the hospital for the nurses? negligence and to bring light to the increasing problems with prescription errors...

Tort Reform at Issue in Healthcare Debate

Posted on September 02, 2009
A former U.S. Senator recently proposed that one way to have Republicans sign onto a universal healthcare plan would be to do so with medical malpractice tort reform. It has also been suggested that medical malpractice claims are ?driving up? healthcare costs...

Parents Awarded $6 Million in Death of Son

Posted on September 02, 2009
The death of a six-month old boy led his parents to file a medical malpractice suit against the boy?s hospital. The wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit claims the hospital negligently discharged their son after he showed signs of lethargy and fever...

Health Care Debate Dispels Rumors

Posted on August 31, 2009
According to an article, medical malpractice lawsuits are not the major problem needed to be reformed in the health care debate. The article claims that ?medical malpractice makes up a tiny percentage of overall healthcare costs,? contrary to popular opinion...

Case Law Update: Complaint in Medical Malpractice

Posted on August 28, 2009
Cookson v. Price, No. 3-08-0669 (8/1//09) reversed and remanded a medical malpractice action against physical therapy assistant, complaint dismissed as initial Section 2-622 report from physical medicine and rehabilitation physician found non-compliant with Section 2-622...

Navy Hospital Settles Three Medical Malpractice Claims

Posted on August 26, 2009
The government has settled three medical malpractice claims on behalf of its navy hospital totaling 2.77 million dollars. Four other medical malpractice claims are in talks to be mediated at a later date. The settlements stem from accusations of medical negligence in birth, failure to diagnose a disease, and an amputation after negligent care...

Negligence Leads to MRSA Infections

Posted on August 24, 2009
More people will die in the US this year from MRSA infections than from the swine flu or AIDS. The Journal of American Medicine Association estimates that 18,000 Americans die each year from MRSA infections. Statistics show that most people who develop MRSA do so after receiving care from a hospital or other health care facility...

Tort Reform Will Not Cut Costs

Posted on August 24, 2009
According to an article, ?studies show malpractice awards are not a big driver of skyrocketing (healthcare) costs.? In the debate on healthcare reform, many republicans are whispering that medical malpractice awards need to be capped to assist reducing the overall healthcare cost, the article claims...

Don't Believe Lies on Illinois Medical Liability

Posted on August 21, 2009
Recently the president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association discussed some of the falsehoods about medical-liability insurance that have been spread throughout Illinois. One is that doctors are fleeing Illinois because of insurance cost. In fact, the American Medical Association states that the number of doctors in Illinois has been steadily increasing over the past decade...

Feeding Tube Causes Death

Posted on August 20, 2009
A man who was admitted to a military medical center died five months after he had a feeding tube inserted into his lung. The family claims in their medical malpractice suit that the doctors failed to remove the tube immediately after discovering the medical mistake...

Woman Dies after Routine Surgery

Posted on August 19, 2009
A woman died after having routine surgery at a hospital. She requested to see her doctor when she experienced excruciating pain after surgery, but was not allegedly examined until the next morning. The examination proved too late because she had already gone into shock and was rushed to intensive care where she died...

A state?s Supreme Court has ordered

Posted on August 18, 2009
A state?s Supreme Court has ordered a new trial in a medical malpractice case because the defendant helped treat a juror who fell ill during closing arguments. During closing arguments, the plaintiff?s attorney spoke as though he was the victim, describing what he may have been thinking as he was dying, and then began describing being autopsied...

Death Wakes Up Medical Professionals

Posted on August 18, 2009
A man that died during a liver transplant has led medical professionals to improve the safety of such surgeries. After the man?s death, the hospital was fined. The hospital ended up suspending any other similar surgery from being performed. It also settled a wrongful death medical malpractice suit with the patient?s widow...

Broken Leg Turns into Vegetative State

Posted on August 17, 2009
A man entered a hospital to undergo minor surgery to fix his broken leg. However, according to his medical malpractice lawsuit, the hospital committed a series of preventable medical mistakes and procedural oversights. The man left the hospital severely brain damaged, quadriplegic, ventilator-dependent and semi-comatose...

Mother Bleeds to Death After Birth

Posted on August 16, 2009
A woman went to a hospital expecting a normal vaginal delivery. However after 10 hours of labor she needed a cesarean section and began bleeding internally after her uterine arteries were torn or cut during the surgery. According to her medical malpractice lawsuit she bled to death after the attending physician and obstetrician argued as to how to treat her...

Hospitals Have Poor Performance in Safety Areas

Posted on August 14, 2009
A detailed safety analysis conducted on behalf of Hearst Newspapers found that at least one in six of the studied facilities had preventable deaths. These occurred from common procedures, including cases in which medical instruments were left inside patients and transfusions were done incorrectly...

Case Law Update: Vicarious Liability in Medical Malpractice

Posted on August 13, 2009
Contribution/Indemnity Marion Hospital Corporation v. Sterling Emergency Services of Illinois, No. 5-07-0703 (7/23/09) reversed the original decision stating that the hospital sued Emergency Services Providers claiming "express indemnity" to recover for settlement paid by Hospital in separate suit in another county...

Mandatory Nationwide Reporting System Needed For Medical Errors

Posted on August 13, 2009
Although a study conducted 10 years ago stated that a mandatory nationwide reporting system for medical errors was imperative, one still does not exist today. The AMA and the American Hospital Association vehemently opposed an attempt by President Clinton to create a mandatory reporting system for serious errors...

Medical Mistakes Blamed in 200,000 Deaths a Year

Posted on August 12, 2009
A recent investigation by the Hearst Company has drawn attention to the fact that approximately 200 thousand Americans will die this year from preventable medical errors and hospital infections. Currently 20 states have no medical error reporting system in place, five have voluntary ones and five more are developing reporting systems...

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