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Over $23.1 Million Awarded in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit for Child Suffering Birth Injuries

On May 8, 2017, a judge in the Cook County Circuit Court awarded over $23.1 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit brought...

Hospital Mistakes Are Much Deadlier Than Ebola

In the midst of the internationally known Ebola scare, a Texas hospital sent a Liberian patient home with infection like symptoms, with...

Small Subset of Doctors Responsible for Majority of Malpracti

Stanford researchers have found that a mere one percent of physicians are associated with one-third of paid malpractice claims in the U.S....

GWC Settles Lake County Med Mal Case for $2.85 Million

GWC Injury Lawyers partner Lawrence Ruder won a $2.85 million settlement in a medical malpractice case against a major north suburban Lake...

Medication Errors During Surgery Injure Patients

A recent study revealed that medication errors occur in half of all surgical procedures at the nations top hospitals, putting patients lives...

Are You Eligible for the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program?

If you or a loved one has been harmed by a vaccine, you could be entitled to compensation that will help you...

Unnecessary Procedures Increase The Risk Of Medical Malpractice

One of the leading causes of medical malpractice incidents throughout Illinois is unnecessary surgeries. Some studies have shown that up to 20 percent of all medical procedures are unnecessary, and every procedure creates the risk of a mistake or a complication such as an infection. Many unnecessary procedures are the well result of a well-intentioned opinion that turns out to be a misdiagnosis. Some of these procedures however are the result of medical professionals who did not diligently seek the...

REPORT: Forbes Debates Medical Malpractice GWC News Blog

A recent report in Forbes Magazine has renewed the debate regarding medical malpractice reform in the United States. The amount of time that a physician spends with open malpractice claims varies dramatically between specialties according to researchers. Doctors in Illinois and around the country face a medical malpractice lawsuit about every 7 years. Neurosurgeons spend on average 131 months of 40-year careers fighting malpractice claims whereas psychiatrists spend about 16 months of their careers with open claims. Forbes reports that...

In The News – Surgical Mistakes

A recent article in the Los Angeles Times is one of the many reports this year to focus on "never events" - medical errors that are so negligent and reckless that they should never occur. As a cost-cutting measure, federal programs such as Medicaid and Medicare announced that they would stop paying for preventable medical mistakes such as wrong-site surgeries, wrong-patient operations, and followup surgeries to remove objects left in a patient by a doctor. Some states have also ramped...