Posts tagged medical malpractice

• A New and Improved Way to Burden Victims Instead of Those at Fault: NY Public Health Law 2999-h[1]

  Jordan Margolis | April 27, 2011 1:09 PM | 1 CommentCook County, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  New York's Governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, has taken revenge on opponents of his mission to enact caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases. Gov. Cuomo successfully garnered legislators'...

• Reforming Tort Reform After the Mid-term Elections: Reality vs. Politicking

  Jordan Margolis | February 28, 2011 5:24 PM | 2 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Medical malpractice tort reform is a familiar yet controversial topic that has been making its way back into the spotlight due to November's mid-term elections and the recent federal health care...

• Should Increased Rates of Surgical Error Mean Less Accountability for Doctors?

  Jamie G. Goldstein | November 04, 2010 3:49 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  For every invasive surgical procedure, doctors are meant to abide by certain protocols. Research indicates, however, that surgical rates of error remain consistent despite numerous calls for...

• Slice of Humble Pie: Doctors may get Cash Bonus for an Apology

  Nick Avgerinos | May 27, 2008 2:52 PM | 3 CommentsChicago-Land, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Medical malpractice claims cause doctors far and wide to head for the hills. After all, nothing can put a dent in many years of hard work quite like a hard-wrought fight about who messed up what...

• Cough Syrup Sends Children to Hospital

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 28, 2008 4:35 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  It is not uncommon for children to wind up in the emergency room after ingesting too much cough syrup. In fact each year it is estimated that approximately 7,000 children end up in the emergency room after receiving too much cough medicine. The CDC has recently posted warnings about the dangers of giving children under 2 cough medicine.Most of the children sent to the emergency room after...

• Failure to Diagnose Breast Cancer Leads to Malpractice in Chicago

  Jamie G. Goldstein | December 14, 2007 2:21 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Two lawsuits have been filed against Stroger Hospital in Chicago, Illinois claiming the hospital failed to timely diagnose breast cancer. One woman, Bobbie Jean Melton, died from breast cancer earlier this year. Her cancer was not detected in a mammogram, and when it finally was detected it was stage four and had metastasized to her lungs and liver. Christine Moore also filed a claim against...

• R&B Settles Gastric Bypass Medical Malpractice Suit in Chicago

  Tony Romanucci | November 06, 2007 10:57 AM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Michael Cabay entered Loyola University Medical Center in March 2001 for a routine gastric bypass surgery. According to WebMD:More than 177,000 people in the U.S. had weight loss surgery in 2006."Roux-en-Y" gastric bypass surgery -- where most of the stomach is bypassed and a small stomach pouch is made -- is the most commonly performed weight loss surgery today, accounting for about 80% of all...

• Ilinois Supreme Court Approves Malpractice Case Rules

  Chrissie Cole | September 27, 2007 10:54 PM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Madison County Court adopted new rules this year for handling medical malpractice cases, approved by the Illinois Supreme Court, according to Chief Judge Ann Callis. The new rules require anytime a medical malpractice case is filed that the persons filing the case and the doctor meet and talk of settling.A few years ago, Doctors saw their insurance premiums increase and dozens closed up shop in...

• Illinois Medical Malpractice Caps Soon To Be Challenged

  Jamie G. Goldstein | September 04, 2007 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Illinois passed medical malpractice legislation two years ago that limited the amount a person could recover for pain and suffering in a medical malpractice lawsuit. There have been no challenges to date because only cases filed since the change would be affected and most of these lawsuits have not gone to trial, but this is about to change. A lawsuit filed in Cook County by Jeffrey Goldberg...

• Lap Band Procedure on Louisiana Child Causes Pancreatitis

  Jamie G. Goldstein | August 15, 2007 6:32 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A young Louisiana child had lap band surgery to help her reduce her body weight. The obese child went into surgery on June 24, 2005 and had reoccurring complaints shortly after the surgery. She returned to Dr. Felix Spiegel's office on several occasions complaining of problems keeping certain foods down, abdominal pain and a choking sensation. The daughter of Warren and Melissa Strother was...