Medical Malpractice

Husband and father suffered a debilitating stroke caused by a complete occlusion of the man's left internal carotid, which could have been prevented by recommended follow-up testing and surgical intervention.

A 22-year-old man who underwent sinus surgery suffers from permanent double vision and a right eye that does not move. During surgery, his right orbital bone was fractured when the doctor entered the orbit with surgical instruments and damaged eye.

Plaintiff suffered incomplete cauda equina syndrome, partial bladder and bowel incontinence, left-sided saddle anesthesia and sexual dysfunction after a failure to timely diagnose and treat a recurrent disc herniation resulting in cauda equina syndrome.

A 48-year-old man gets left arm amputated below the distal aspect of the forearm after negligent treatment and management of left hand/arm swelling and blistering.

Due to the negligence of a midwife and Obstetrician at a Chicagoland Area Hospital, an infant died from severe hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

A woman sustained a burn and permanent scar on her wrist from a surgical apparatus that had been recently sterilized, but had not been permitted to sufficiently cool before the start of the arthroscopic wrist surgery.

A 16-year-old male requires second surgery after physician punctured the right popliteal artery and vein during a routine ACL reconstruction.

Chicago hospital fails to timely diagnose and treat a 43-year-old woman for a bacterial infection that previous tests indicated was present, leading the patient to suffer a bacterial infection of the heart and embolic strokes.

Failure to diagnose and treat stroke.