Circuit Court of Cook County Counsel: Steve Steinback & Jason Gluskin Demand: $3.8 million Asked: $3.3 million Outcome: Not Guilty Plaintiff alleged negligence against Hospital and co-defendant pain management physician for performing an epidural steroid injection on a patient taking Plavix which resulted in an epidural hematoma, quadriparesis, and the patient’s eventual demise. Barker Castro […]
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Circuit Court of Cook County Counsel: Steve Steinback & Jason Gluskin Demand: $12.6 million Asked: $9,727,354 Outcome: Not Guilty Plaintiff alleged that defendants failed to properly treat decedent’s abdominal aortic aneurysm which resulted in a fatal rupture. Plaintiff maintained that the defendants failed to inform decedent about the urgent nature of his 7 cm abdominal […]
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Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois Counsel: Steven Steinback & Christopher Reeder Demand $2,200,000 Asked: $3.0 million Outcome: Not Guilty The decedent (male, 47) presented to the ED after suffering a traumatic distal tibia and fibula fracture. He was admitted, surgery was performed, and he remained an inpatient for one week. Lovenox was started post-operatively […]
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Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois Counsel: Anne Scrivner Kuban and Krista Frick Demand 120,000 Asked: $195,000 Outcome: Not Guilty Defendant dermatologist performed a graft hair transplant procedure on Plaintiff on December 12, 2012 utilizing an excised donor strip from the back of Plaintiff’s head. Hair did grow in the transplanted area at the front […]
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Court of Cook County, Illinois Counsel: Anne Scrivner Kuban and Christopher Reeder Demand $5,000,000 Asked: $1,000,000 Outcome: Not Guilty On January 18, 2014, a 17 year old teenager (hereinafter referred to as the decedent) was dropped off in front of the emergency room while suffering from a heroin overdose. Medical personnel including defendant emergency room […]
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Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois Counsel: Anne Scrivner Kuban and Krista Frick Demand $6.5 Million Asked: $16.5 million Outcome: Not Guilty The decedent presented to the hospital on January 4, 2014 at 1:30AM with complaints of flu-like symptoms, chest pain and shortness of breath. He was evaluated and assessed by the emergency room physician, […]
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Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois Counsel: Patricia J. Barker and Jennifer M. Suttle Demand: $3,000,000 Asked: $12.2 million Outcome: Not Guilty On December 3, 2013, Plaintiff, age 76, presented to the emergency room after suffering a “wake-up” stroke. She was admitted to the hospital but was not administered tPA because of the unknown timing […]
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Circuit Court of Cook County Illinois Counsel: Scott Irvin and David Kalimuthu Demand: $3.5 million Asked: $5.3 million Outcome: Not Guilty as to our Defendant Hematologist/Oncologist Plaintiff was admitted to the hospital on May 8, 2011, for various symptoms, including fever, repeated falls, foot drop, episodic dysphasia, and pancytopenia. She was diagnosed by a rheumatologist […]
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Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois Counsel: Anne Kuban & Jennifer Suttle Demand: $2.75 million Asked: $10.3 million Outcome: Not Guilty Plaintiff presented to defendant hospital and co-defendant interventional cardiologist for a cardiac catheterization in December 2006 due to long standing cardiac disease. As the catheterization procedure was concluding, Plaintiff exhibited signs of a middle […]
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Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois Counsel: Anne Scrivner Kuban and Elizabeth Jaci Demand: $750,000 Asked: $3.3 million Outcome: Not Guilty Plaintiff was the decedent’s estranged wife. The decedent (M-51) was 420 pounds with a BMI of 55 when he entered the hospital for gastric bypass surgery. His co-morbidities included diabetes, congestive heart failure, a […]
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