In what is being reported as a Chicago example of a growing trend nationwide, a 77 year old man south-side nursing home resident was killed by his 50 year-old mentally ill roommate. Over the past several years nursing homes have become common places to put mentally ill adults who have…
Jessica Fargen reported in today’s Boston Herald that a Boston Medical Malpractice defense attorney hired by one of the area’s largest malpractice insurance companies advised a doctor that he could avoid being served with a summons in a major medical malpractice lawsuit if he left the country. Dr. Eran Bar-Mer…
Our clients often ask us about damages in medical malpractice cases. Sometimes they tell us that they aren’t interested in financial compensation and only want to do something to make sure that their doctor doesnt hurt anybody else. The remedy in civil medical malpractice is financial. When we proceed with…
We like to take note of outstanding verdicts and settlements from around the country on our blog. Today an Arizona jury awarded $11 million to the widow of a 36 year old victim of a traumatic brain injury that occured at an assisted living facility. While a resident at the…
Yesterday 45 year-old actress Natasha Richardson died tragically after she sustained a brain injury in what has been reported as a minor fall on a Quebec ski slope. It has been reported in some media outlets that her brain become swollen after she sustained a shearing injury caused by whiplash…
There is little doubt that technology has changed the way we communicate with each other. In the past several years social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter have allowed ordinary citizens to connect with one another in extraordinary ways. Trial Lawyers have always been concerned with influence outside information might…
President Obama has nominated Indiana judge, David F. Hamilton, to an opening on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. This is our new presidents first appointment to the bench. Hamilton is currently a federal district judge in Indianapolis. He previously served as counsel to U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) when Bayh was governor…
Survivors of a victim of a wrongful death that occured before May 31, 2007 in Illinois were limited under the Illinois Wrongful Death Act to recover only pecuniary loses completely discounting the survivors grief from consideration. Pecunary loss includes the loss of benefit of the decedent’s love, affection, care, attention, companionship,…
A Kentucky jury awarded a married couple $2.5 million dollars when their medical malpractice lawsuit went to verdict last week. In 2001, Sophia Savage underwent a hysterectomy at a Kentucky hospital. During the surgery her doctors left behind a sponge which was not discovered until 2005. Doctors discovered the sponge…
Websites like Angie’s List offer online reviews on all types of service providers, including doctors. It is undeniable that the internet provides a broad forum for public discussion, good and bad, that is very powerful. If a search engine like Google gets a hold of negative information, even if it is…