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Medical Malpractice and Hospital Negligence

Medical malpractice is a term used by lawyers to describe negligence that results in death or injury by a health care provider who fails to adhere to the accepted standards of practice and care for the relevant procedure. Professional health care providers include doctors, nurses, dentists, technicians, hospitals, nursing home facilities and any person or entity that provides medical care. Medical malpractice can also occur through outpatient services or if issues arise with prescription medication.

Clifford Law Offices: Experienced Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorneys

Clifford Law Offices has handled medical malpractice claims involving numerous medical specialties. In this era of health care change, Clifford Law Offices' commitment is unwavering in responding to consumer rights and awareness. In litigating these lawsuits (which often arise from product liability claims of defective medical devices as well), the firm develops the cases beyond the line of improper treatment, diagnosis and surgery, and investigates if medical products and drugs were involved. Clifford Law Offices, recognized as one of the top medical malpractice firms, determines the liability of any health maintenance organization as well as doctors, nurses, pathologists and other health care workers.

With an attorney-nurse on staff, as well as a full-time nurse with a legal background working on these cases, Clifford Law Offices offers in-depth medical insight to its clients and referring attorneys. For established birth injury lawyers, brain injury lawyers or other experienced Chicago medical malpractice lawyers, talk to Clifford Law Offices.

Clifford Law Offices is a Chicago law firm that combines innovative legal theories with computer-assisted research on the latest medical and pharmaceutical material to meet the needs of its clients throughout the country. In 2010, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that caps on damages involving medical malpractice cases are unconstitutional. It is the third time that the state’s highest court made that finding, quashing limits on medical malpractice cases. Robert A. Clifford and Keith A. Hebeisen, partners at the firm, have written extensively on this subject and were among those in the forefront of the fight on behalf of patients’ right to a trial by jury. Read some of their medical malpractice articles here.

Keith Hebeisen, who concentrates in medical malpractice, has served as President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers’ Association. He, along with Bob Clifford, have written and spoken extensively on subjects impacting victims of medical malpractice. Bob Clifford wrote an article as to how it is decided whether the firm accepts a med mal case. Keith Hebeisen recently authored a piece looking at the myths surrounding medical malpractice that appeared in the Law Day issue of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, May 1, 2010.

The complexity of medical malpractice cases requires experienced representation by medical negligence lawyers. Clifford Law Offices has a record of previous success in the field of medical malpractice that benefits all of their clients. Some recent cases include:

Bob Clifford & Keith Hebeisen - $16,000,000 Newborn suffers brain damage when oxygen is cut off after doctors and hospital personnel fail to perform timely cesarean section.

 

Bob Clifford & Keith Hebeisen - $13,500,000 Infant suffers severe brain damage at birth as a result of improperly mixed intravenous solution.

Bob Clifford & Keith Hebeisen - $12,000,000 Settlement Failure to diagnose cancer leads to metastatic cancer in 55-year-old man.

Keith Hebeisen & Mary C. Sweeney - $12,000,000 Record medical malpractice verdict in DuPage County on behalf of an infant who suffered permanent and severe brain damage as a result of a delayed cesarean section delivery

Keith Hebeisen - $6,750,000 Doctors and hospital personnel negligently fail to timely recognize, diagnose and treat baby girl after birth when she developed jaundice while in the intermediate care nursery that resulted in permanent brain injury.

Bob Clifford & Keith Hebeisen - $6,000,000 Young mother of two suffers severe disfigurement after doctors unnecessarily remove healthy breast when lab technician mixes up pathology slides

Robert A. Strelecky & Brian S. Shallcross - $5,950,000 39-year-old man suffers permanent injury to his leg following unnecessary and negligent stent procedure performed by cardiologist; highest adult non-death medical malpractice verdict in history of DuPage County

Keith Hebeisen & Brian S. Shallcross - 5,000,000 Verdict Doctor performs unnecessary hysterectomy on 31-year-old Chicago area woman after c-section to deliver her first child.

Bob Clifford & Robert A. Strelecky - $4,500,000 52-year-old mother of three suffers permanent and severe brain damage after hospital fails to monitor her breathing following hip replacement surgery.

Robert A. Strelecky - $3,650,000 47-year-old meat packer dies after hospital employee fails to conduct routine tests to detect blood clot in man's leg following brain surgery.

Keith Hebeisen & Robert A. Strelecky - $3,600,000 55-year-old woman dies when doctor fails to properly and timely diagnose her breast cancer, leaving one adult disabled daughter.

Keith Hebeisen - $3,200,000 Plaintiff sustained a spinal cord injury during surgery performed at defendant hospital. Plaintiff is permanently disabled and is partially paralyzed in all four extremities.

Keith Hebeisen - $3,200,000 (partial) 46-year-old man is paralyzed after surgery, also leaving him incontinent, impotent and severely spastic.

Richard F. Burke, Jr. & Shannon M. McNulty - $2,500,000 Young mother is in labor for 25 hours with prolonged periods during which her baby was deprived of sufficient oxygen and suffered from poor fetal tones; her son is born with cerebral palsy and he dies two years later from a seizure disorder.

Keith Hebeisen & Susan A. Capra - $1,400,000 Medical negligence case involving a young woman who undergoes an unnecessary hysterectomy during which her bowel was lacerated, resulting in a severe infection that causes permanent injuries.

Keith Hebeisen & Susan A. Capra - $1,050,000 Settlement 37-year-old husband and father dies after hospital's anesthesiologist fails to diagnose and treat an air embolism during surgery.

Different Forms of Medical Malpractice

 

For an experienced Chicago medical malpractice attorney, contact Clifford Law Offices at (800) 899-0410.  We have Chicago medical negligence lawyers with whom you can consult.