A 30-year-old man who died due to medical negligence from failing to timely diagnose and treat a staph aureus surgical site infection after a back surgery. Infection progressed to staph aureus meningitis. Decedent left behind his parents and four siblings.
Joseph Murphy secured a $520,000 result on behalf of a minor whose appendix ruptured when a Chicago area hospital failed to diagnose an appendicitis.
A record $66 million judgement was obtained on behalf of a 39-year-old mother of four who bled to death following a negligent surgical procedure that went unnoticed. Read more here.
A 55-year-old male died of a pulmonary embolism due to DVT which developed after ankle surgery because no anticoagulants were prescribed.
Settlement secured on behalf of a 58-year-old man with a history of Wegener’s granulomatosis, hypertension, prior pulmonary emboli, and an IVC filter, who was hospitalized with shortness of breath and atrial fibrillation and died of a saddle pulmonary embolus while pending discharge.
A 59-year-old man died due to an allegedly undiagnosed aortic dissection. He left surviving him a wife and two sons.
A 46-year-old man died as a result of a failure to treat his known coronary artery disease.
A 15-year-old boy died during an extubation procedure.
A 67-year-old woman died as a result of negligent care of a cardiologist, electrophysiologic, and an advanced practice nurse over a period of 16 months.