(2023 – Cook County)
A.M. v. Chicago Area Hospital

Medical negligence/wrongful death: 71-year old female presented to Chicago area hospital with chest pain, back pain, and fever. She had recently undergone chemotherapy for treatment of leukemia. While an inpatient at the hospital, she suffered an unwitnessed fall, resulting in a subdural hematoma. This brain bleed and its sequalae caused her death 2 weeks later. Plaintiff alleged that decedent was a moderate fall risk by objective and subjective measurement and additionally was at high risk for bleeding due to her thrombocytopenia (low platelets) from cancer and chemotherapy. Plaintiff alleged that the bed alarm was not properly set and that had fall precautions been implemented, Decedent’s fall and resultant injury and death would have been avoided. Co-counsel with Joseph W. Balesteri.

S.B.M. v. A Downstate Hospital

(2019) Healthy baby boy born September 9, 2015 to healthy mom. Mom was administered a pain medication (Norco) by a nurse after having passed out post-delivery. The same nurse thereafter gave mom her baby for breastfeeding in the very early morning hours without waking the father of the baby. Upon the nurse’s return (about 50 minutes later), the baby was found unresponsive next to his sleeping mom. The one-day old baby was pronounced dead as a result of asphyxiation from overlay. He is survived by his parents.

Result: $1,000,000.00

RC, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of HG, a minor v. Little Company of Mary Hospital

(2012) Medical Malpractice: Premature delivery by induction of a preemie (32 weeks) thought to be term, after the defendant radiologist dictated another mother’s pregnancy ultrasound data into the child’s mother’s report. The pregnancy was electively induced in reliance upon a different pregnancy’s data resulting in pre-term delivery and a brain bleed at birth.

Result: $1,000,000.00

JP, as Special Administrator of the Estate of CP, Deceased v. Advocate Christ Hospital and Medical Center

(2010) Medical Malpractice: 78 year old female presented to the emergency room for pulmonary concerns. Atrial fibrillation was found on a routine EKG and Heparin was started pursuant to a weight based nomogram. Due to over-anticoagulation as a result of a failure to follow a hospital protocol regarding the timing of Heparin administration in response to blood work, CP was over anticoagulated resulting in a brain bleed, neurologic impairment and her death approximately two months later. She was survived by her husband and five adult children.

Result: $1,000,000.00

CK v. Rush University Medical Center, et al.

(2008) Medical Malpractice: 41 year old female underwent left-sided L4-L5 micro-endoscopic discectomy. The surgeons caused injury to her spinal cord resulting in drop foot on the left side and an inability to move toes on the right side with tingling and burning to the foot.

Result: $1,000,000.00

E.H, deceased v. Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Medical Malpractice settlement.  On April 29, 2018, the plaintiff, aged 70, presented to the E/R complaining of right hip pain. X-rays revealed possible calcifications within the soft tissues. A follow-up MRI revealed a mass within the right gluteus muscles. On July 1, 2019, she was diagnosed with Stage IV angiosarcoma. She underwent treatment but died from the disease on April 24, 2020. Allegedly, her physician was negligent in his care and treatment of her following her April 29, 2018, emergency department visit, which delayed her diagnosis, and allowed her disease to progress.  She died prematurely as a result of the delay in diagnosis.

A.S. v. A Local Community Clinic

Medical Malpractice/Wrongful Death: 51-year-old female went to a Local Community Clinic which dispensed over-the-counter dietary supplements containing concentrated green tea extract. Plaintiff’s experts believe that a physician’s office should not be dispensing dietary supplements without explaining the risks involved to consumers/customers. Over the course of a few months with additional visits to the clinic for these dietary products, liver failure resulted in hospitalization, hospice care, and her death. Plaintiff’s decedent did not fit criteria for organ transplantation. The clinic had $1 million of insurance. Dietary supplements are not subject oversight by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States. Survived by two adult children and her husband. Co-counsel with Joseph W. Balesteri.

(2016) Nursing Home Negligence: 64 year old male passed away on June 14, 2014, after staff at a long-term care facility failed to provide him with Klonopin medication that had been prescribed to prevent him from experiencing seizures. No Klonopin was given to Mr. Mayfield from March 19, 2014 through March 24, 2014 when he suffered a seizure requiring his hospitalization at Ingalls Memorial Hospital from March 24 through April 8, 2014. Thereafter, he was transferred to Ingalls Hospice where he remained, mostly unresponsive, until his death on June 14, 2014. Decedent was survived by two sisters, who were found to be his dependents.

Roberts v. Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service, et al., 12 L 2978

Medical malpractice settlement.  On May 27, 2011. Plaintiff Roberts, a 68 year old woman, was admitted to Crestwood Care Centre for rehabilitation following a successful above the knee amputation on her right leg at Little Company of Mary Hospital. On June 7, 2011 Plaintiff appeared “gray” in color and was “cold” to the touch. A Nurse Practitioner for Crestwood instructed a nurse from Crestwood to call for an ambulance to take Plaintiff back to Little Company of Mary Hospital. Plaintiff alleged Ms. Roberts was not properly monitored during transport; the paramedics took an unreasonable amount of time to transport a woman who had an acute change in mental status and abnormal vital signs; and the paramedics should have taken her emergently to the better and closer hospital. Plaintiff further alleged that the paramedics altered Mrs. Roberts ambulance run report, even two days after her death.

S.G. v. MetroSouth Medical Center

Medical Malpractice: The Plaintiff presented to MetroSouth for the performance of an MRI. Plaintiff maintained that the IV catheter was improperly placed in a small vein in the dorsum of the Plaintiff’s thumb, which caused an extravasation injury to occur. The Plaintiff developed a compartment syndrome in her non-dominant hand, which required two surgeries and physical therapy. Co-counsel Joseph A. Power, Jr.