The following cases represent some high-profile cases the firm is presently prosecuting
Plaintiff, a 52-year-old male, was misdiagnosed with a lymph node in his neck, that was actually a fatty mass. Defendants failed to properly evaluate the mass and performed an unnecessary surgery. They then negligently performed the surgery, removing the fatty mass and nerve bundles, causing plaintiff a permanent and severe shoulder and arm nerve injury.
Plaintiff, a 34-year-old asymptomatic female, with elevated liver enzyme levels, was advised that she needed a liver biopsy due to an allegedly abnormal ultrasound that was, in fact, normal. Defendants were aware that plaintiff was on various medications that could have been the cause of her elevated liver enzymes but did not tell her that she could merely stop taking the medications to see if her liver enzyme levels returned to normal. Defendants then negligently performed an unnecessary liver biopsy that has caused plaintiff a severe chronic and permanent pain syndrome.
Plaintiff, a 64-year-old healthy male, injured his back while playing volleyball and went to an emergency room. The emergency room staff misread the CT Scan that was performed and failed to identify a herniated disc at the proper level. The staff then failed to conduct a timely MRI in order to evaluate his back condition. His condition deteriorated and surgery was not performed in a timely manner. As a result of the negligence of the physicians who treated and cared for him, he now is wheelchair dependent and partially paralyzed.
A young employed mother of two minor children who was 35 weeks pregnant went to a local Chicago hospital with complaints of back pain. Emergency room physicians diagnosed her with a urinary tract infection, had a culture done on her urine, and gave her a general antibiotic to treat the infection. She had two follow-up emergency room visits in the following eight days where physicians did not review her test results and continued to treat her with a generic antibiotic that was not the proper antibiotic to treat the type of bacterial infection that she had. Ten days after her initial emergency room visit, she suffered cardiac arrest due to kidney failure and she and her unborn child died. The urinary tract infection was determined to be her cause of death.
Plaintiff, a middle-aged farmer, cut his leg while working on his farm. He was transported to a local hospital and was discharged without being prescribed any antibiotics despite having a fever. His wound was infected at the time of discharge and the infection spread and developed into sepsis resulting in loss of aspects of his leg and knee. He required multiple surgeries thereafter and suffers from permanent damages to his leg.