Medical Malpractice Success Stories

$7.9 Million Jury Verdict in Cancer Misdiagnosis

An 8-year-old Glenview boy was rendered blind due to the negligence of his pediatrician. Although the pediatrician examined the retina of both eyes seven separate times, he failed to diagnose…

$7.5 Million Settlement for Child’s Brain Damage from Delivery Procedures

Our clients were the grandparents and co-guardians of a 9-year-old girl who had the developmental, motor and language skills of a 3-year-old due to brain injuries that she received a…

$7 Million Cancer Death Settlement

A 31-year-old woman had a routine Pap smear in July 1992, which was read as normal. When a subsequent testing in 1995 showed she had cancer, the 1992 slide was…

$6.95 Million Jury Verdict for Birth Brain Injury

Delays in delivering an infant caused a lack of oxygen to reach his brain, resulting in spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, cortical blindness and intractable seizures. $6.95 Million B. v. Luedtke,…

$6.75 Million Brain Damage Settlement

A 68-year-old woman was admitted to Provena St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin after experiencing headaches for two weeks. Family members indicated that, on that day, she couldn’t stop tapping her…

$6.3 Million Settlement on Behalf of Brain-Injured Infant

Our client was an infant who, a month after her birth, began having seizures at home. She was hospitalized and given initial medication that halted the seizures. But after another…

$6 Million Settlement for Birth Injury

A newborn was born with cerebral palsy after being deprived of oxygen for 40 minutes during delivery. $6 Million D. v. Swedish Covenant Hospital

$6 Million Birth Injury Settlement

A newborn baby suffered brain damage during a delay in delivery that left him unable to walk, talk or see. $6 Million E. v. Kishwaukee Hospital

$6 Million Settlement for Negligence Following Kidney Transplant

Our client was a 39-year-old diabetic who had been born with one kidney. He sought to get another kidney to avoid the need for dialysis. He received a transplant and…

$5.5 Million Diagnosis Delay Settlement

A young boy suffered a permanent brain injury after a delay in diagnosing post-operative bleeding at the site of his surgery. $5.5 Million K. v. Children’s Memorial

$5.5 Million Settlement for Birth Injury

A woman’s son was born with severe brain damage after delays in delivery caused him to be deprived of oxygen. $5.5 Million L. v. Westlake Community Hospital

$5.25 Million for Cancer Misdiagnosis on Mother of Three

A mother of three children under age 7 made four doctor visits complaining of vaginal bleeding, but the physicians failed to timely diagnose cervical cancer. They misdiagnosed the bleeding and…

$5 Million Settlement for Brain Injury from Gastric Bypass Surgery

We were lead counsel representing the guardian of a 47-year-old woman who developed extensive bleeding and clotting and digestive tract trauma following gastric bypass surgery. One of the two original…

$4.25 Million for Malpractice in Mother, Fetus Deaths

A 30-year-old pregnant woman died after a 36-hour delay in treatment from the time she called the hospital to inform them she had been exposed to chicken pox. She had…

$3.7 Million Birth Injury Settlement

A baby was born with permanent spinal cord damage after he was delivered by forceps. $3.7 Million C. v. Simpson, M.D.

$3.5 Million Cancer Misdiagnosis Settlement

Lab technicians failed to detect a woman’s cervical cancer after they read two annual Pap smears as normal. The cancer spread to her ovaries and abdomen, requiring a hysterectomy, radiation…

$3.5 Million Medical Negligence Settlement in New Mother’s Death

Our client had a C-section delivery of her son at Advocate South Suburban Hospital. The surgery itself was uneventful with a normal blood loss, but the obstetrician’s post-operative orders did…

$3.5 Million Surgical Error Settlement

Doctors punctured the wall of a young child’s heart while performing a cardiac biopsy to determine the cause of her irregular heartbeat. The puncture caused the child to go into…