Medical Malpractice

An infant hemorrhaged to death due to a pediatric surgeon who inappropriately performed surgery for a congenital diaphragmatic hernia and bronchopulmonary sequestration.

Settlement on behalf of a baby who sustained brain damage at birth.

Settlement for negligent failure to perform a timely emergency delivery, resulting in serious and permanent brain injury to the newborn.

Clifford Law Offices obtained a record $101 million verdict on behalf of a baby who sustained brain damage at birth at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park. This case is the highest reported Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict. Click here to read more about the case.

Plaintiff went into septic shock and died when health care providers, at two different hospitals, failed to timely recognize the signs and symptoms of a bowel perforation and failed to timely take plaintiff back to surgery after client underwent a hernia repair.

Settlement involving the failure to diagnose and treat cancer of the spine, resulting in the death of a 21-year-old man.

A 14-year-old girl underwent an amputation of her left big toe due to an infection caused by a bandage that was applied too tightly.  

A 59-year-old man dies after health care providers failed to timely diagnose and treat his coronary artery and ischemic cardiac disease.

A 21-year-old man sustained injury to the right inferior and medial rectus eye muscles and fractured eye socket during nasal surgery insulting in permanent double vision, loss of peripheral vision, and deformity of the eye.