Medical Malpractice Blog

GWC’s Jason M. Kroot and Geoffrey E. Jacobs have obtained a $1.3 million settlement for the family of an infant who died as a result of a bowel obstruction. The firm’s medical [...]

The mother of a child who died of respiratory failure at Palos Community Hospital has settled her lawsuit against the hospital and a physician for $4.25 million. The parties involved in the [...]

A study conducted by USA Today found that the maternal mortality rate in the United States is the highest in the developed world. According to the World Health Organization, maternal mortality [...]

Thanks to significant advances in medicine in the past decades, Americans are living longer, with nearly 15 percent of the population age 65 or older. With this spike in the aging population has [...]

In the United States and other industrialized nations, advances in medicine have made childbirth much safer than it has ever been before. The infant mortality rate in the United States is down [...]

An elderly man recently received an award from a Cook County jury in the amount of $1,011,949.00 for severe injuries he sustained during a colonoscopy procedure, chiefly because it was determined [...]

On May 11, 2017, Melissa Rivers settled a medical malpractice lawsuit that she had filed against the clinic that had performed a surgical procedure that allegedly resulted in the death of her [...]

On May 8, 2017, a judge in the Cook County Circuit Court awarded over $23.1 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the family of a 5-year-old girl suffering ongoing health problems [...]

In the midst of the internationally known Ebola scare, a Texas hospital sent a Liberian patient home with infection like symptoms, with no testing, after learning he had just come from disease [...]

Stanford researchers have found that a mere one percent of physicians are associated with one-third of paid malpractice claims in the U.S. Researchers analyzed over 66,000 paid medical [...]