Wrongful Death

Despite risk factors for coronary artery disease, a 56-year-old woman was taken to surgery for a hysterectomy without a pre-operative cardiac consultation. She died of a heart attack shortly after the surgery.

Clifford Law Offices obtained a $21.5 million verdict on behalf of a south suburban family whose son drowned on a weekly trip to the Bridgeview Park District Pool four years ago. Click here to read more about the case.

Plaintiff's decedent, an adult with developmental disabilities, resided in a group home in Will County. Plaintiff alleged that the defendants' acts and omissions resulted in decedent's death.

A 64-year-old man died as a result of dehydration and kidney failure that resulted from inadequate evaluation and a premature release from the emergency room following a fall to the ground when a residential porch collapsed.

Death of a 23-month-old child as a result of the hospital and anesthesiologist's failure to cancel an ERCP procedure due to lack of adequate personnel or equipment to treat complications and a failure to properly run a pediatric code.

Death of a husband and a father due to the negligence of a Northern Illinois Hospital and its physician's failure to diagnose and treat a pericardial effusion.

Death of an infant from a negligent amniotomy performed by the defense obstetrician causing abruption of the placenta and hemorrhage.

Death of an infant due to the hospital, nurse, and physician's failure to recognize fetal distress and perform a timely c-section.

Plaintiff, traveling towards downtown Chicago on I-290, was struck by a medical transportation van and killed while receiving a battery jump from an IDOT vehicle, who had its emergency lights activated.