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An experienced medical malpractice attorney can help you seek justice for your injuries caused by hospital negligence.
The personal injury attorneys at Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers, LLC will ensure your claim has the highest chance of approval to get the compensation you need.
Discuss your compensation claim with a Chicago, IL medical malpractice lawyer who will protect your rights and obtain the compensation you may be entitled to receive. Contact our law firm by calling us at (888) 424-5757 to schedule a free consultation.
Patients rely on the medical team’s expertise to provide the best care in a medical center or hospital. Typically, a patient's health care provider orchestrates their medical care. Medical professionals and support staff carry out the physicians’ orders and treatment from their admission into the hospital and throughout the stay.
Unfortunately, hospital injuries can be severe for patients undergoing surgery, recuperating during the surgical recovery process, or rehabilitation after a procedure. Some injuries can be severe and others fatal, resulting in wrongful death claims.
Hiring Chicago Medical Malpractice Injury Lawyers
The Chicago medical malpractice attorneys at Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers represent clients injured by their healthcare provider in a doctor's office, hospital, or medical center.
Our Chicago hospital injury team currently represents clients throughout the United States, Illinois, Cook County, DuPage County, Kane County, Lake County, Will County, Arlington Heights, Aurora, Chicago, Elgin, Joliet, Naperville, and Waukegan. Reach out and contact us!
When It’s Time to Talk to a Hospital Injury Lawyer
According to an established standard of care, all patients deserve to receive medical care in a clean and well-run hospital. All medical providers working in the hospital and emergency room have a duty of care to provide each patient with needed treatment, rehabilitation, or surgical procedure to treat their medical condition.
However, some medical facilities have a broken system where medical errors, anesthesia errors, and surgical mistakes cause catastrophic problems resulting in harm to the patient.
Examples of systematic medical errors include:- Administering the wrong medication
- Performing the wrong medical procedure on a patient
- Performing the procedure on the wrong patient
- Allowing bedsores (pressure sores) to develop during the patient's stay
- Failing to follow doctor orders
- Misdiagnosing or failure to diagnose a life-threatening condition
- Labor and delivery problems that result in birth injury, brain damage, or cerebral palsy
- Using outdated or broken equipment (wheelchairs, beds, tables, etc.)
- Medical experts failing to protect patients from physical harm from intruders or staff
- Giving patients the wrong food
Failing to maintain complete and comprehensive medical records to quickly identify allergies, medication reactions, and advanced directives
Victims of medical malpractice can sue a facility for medical negligence. This legal theory differs from filing a medical malpractice lawsuit against a doctor for medical professionals' errors.
You Can Sue the Hospital. A Hospital Negligence Attorney Can Help
In addition to errors that arise from inadequate hospital policy, the medical negligence of individual staff members, nurses, and orderlies may cause or contribute to a patient's injuries.
Examples of individual staff negligence that commonly translate into serious injuries or death of the patient include:
- Dropping patients
- Failing to assist with transfers in and out of bed
- Improperly drawing blood
- Pushing patients in wheelchairs into walls and elevator doors
Patient Falls in Hospitals and Illinois Medical Centers
The medical team preventing patient falls continues to be the most extensive safety issue in hospitals in the United States. A study done by the Flex Monitoring Team showed that falls account for 84% of all inpatient incidents, and 30% of these hospital falls are thought to result in serious injuries.The falls often happen due to negligence on the part of the medical facility, including:
- Inadequate assistance devices for the patient
- Failure to diagnose a medical condition
- Not preparing for medication side effects
- An inattentive or understaffed medical team
Hospital fall victims tend to stay in the facility longer and generate higher medical bills. The total medical costs are 60% higher for those who have a fall in the hospital, and it is expected that these costs will reach more than $54 billion nationwide!
Sample Hospital Medical Malpractice Cases
$4,250,000 Settlement; Medical Malpractice; Cook County, Chicago, IL
Most hospitals are busy, where minutes are precious for a patient requiring emergent treatment. Because of that, the staff must always be alert. In this hospital medical malpractice case, a little boy’s parents took him to see the doctor when he was two years old at Palos Park, Illinois hospital.
With test results, the doctors diagnosed him with Croup and discharged him. Yet, a few days, his parents brought their loved one back because he was not getting better.
The hospital staff watched the boy slip out of consciousness, stop breathing, and experience cardiac arrest. The nurses' efforts to help were unsuccessful. The doctor did not see the boy for nearly a half-hour. He died the next day.
His parents sued the Chicago hospital and doctor for medical malpractice, citing a minimal standard of care and failure to diagnose their child's condition accurately. The family alleged that the doctors, nurses, and medical facility oversight resulted from medical negligence and that the inadequate service caused the child's death.
Their Chicago medical negligence lawyer sought compensation for their damages, including their pain, his pain, and all the loss that accompanied their loved one's death.
In a private settlement, the family's trial lawyers negotiated a $4.25 million settlement. The hospital paid the bulk of the settlement compensation, and the doctors, nurses' malpractice insurance policies paid about $750,000.
$7,000,000 Verdict; Hospital Medical Malpractice; Cook County, Illinois
While the case's facts were clear, determining who was at fault was challenging and required a jury verdict to decide. The older adult with post-traumatic stress disorder from prior military service was at a Chicago hospital receiving treatment for unrelated injuries.
His doctors discharged him from the hospital and sent him back to the nursing center via an ambulance where he was living. While in the ambulance, the vehicle came to a stop allowing him to break free from his restraints and attempt to escape.
However, when leaving the vehicle, he fell and sustained a massive brain injury that claimed his life a few hours later. The man’s estate claims that the hospital did not inform the ambulance staff of his mental state.
The lawsuit documents that the man was suicidal and had suffered other mental conditions that made him a danger to himself and others.
The plaintiffs' trial lawyers claim that had the paramedics known of their loved one’s mental status, they could have provided treatment differently to prevent his death. In response, the hospital claimed that they did inform the ambulance staff about the man’s mental status but that the paramedics took no action.
The multi-million dollar Chicago personal injury case became a “he said, she said” argument that the hospital and doctors ultimately lost. The jury awarded the plaintiffs a $7 million verdict for their grief, suffering, and loss of society that his death caused.
$965,000 Settlement; Hospital Medical Malpractice; Cook County, Illinois
A male victim in his early 60s was involved in a combined medical malpractice case with a hospital and nursing home.
In the summer of 2014, the patient entered a nursing facility without bedsores (pressure wounds, decubitus ulcers) on his body.
However, bedsores began to develop while living in the nursing center and degraded significantly where he needed medical treatment in the hospital emergency room. His bedsores had developed on his spinal region of the spine.
His bedsores worsened while he was in the hospital receiving treatment from a medical professional team. The victim believes that the hospital medical professionals never heeded warnings nor followed the admittance documents prepared by the convalescent home before his bedsores degraded to a life-threatening Stage IV.
The victim underwent debridement (cutting away dead tissue) and reconstructive surgery at the hospital. Due to his injuries, he filed a civil lawsuit against the hospital, doctors, and the nursing facility, claiming that their combined medical malpractice caused him pain, disfigurement, disability, and extensive medical bills.
The defendants (hospital, doctors, and nursing facility) agreed to a negotiated settlement of $870,000 in compensation for the injured victim. The facility paid $95,000 in compensation, and the nursing facility paid the balance of the malpractice claim.
$6,450,000 Settlement; Hospital Medical Malpractice; Cook County, Illinois
A fifty-five-year-old woman was admitted for surgery at a Chicago hospital to undergo an implant pacemaker procedure. After the surgery, she began bleeding and suffering other severe complications.
The nursing staff decided to monitor her at the facility for nearly a month. After her discharge from the facility, she returned a few days later with breathing difficulty and other troubling symptoms.
Soon afterward, she went into shock, had a heart attack, and died. The attorney for her estate discovered the original pacemaker procedure caused all her issues (medical malpractice).
Her surviving spouse and four children filed a medical malpractice claim, citing wrongful death against the hospital and medical professionals. The plaintiffs' trial lawyers pointed out that all the facility's errors and the ultimate consequence their mother endured led to her death.
Working with their Chicago, IL medical malpractice lawyer, the family chose to resolve their medical malpractice claim by accepting a negotiated settlement of $6.45 million on behalf of their loved one to recoup their damages.
Choose Medical Malpractice Attorneys who Understand Illinois Law
Even if the circumstances regarding a patient’s injuries during hospitalization are unclear, Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers will investigate the matter and provide you with answers surrounding the incident.
Once there is some clarity regarding the facts, our medical malpractice lawyers can work with the hospital’s risk manager on a settlement or proceed with a lawsuit against the medical institution and its employees.
Illinois Hospital Medical Negligence Injury FAQs
Our Chicago, IL law offices understand many people are confused about filing and resolving a medical malpractice case. Below, we have answered common questions. However, contact us today at (888) 424-5757 if you need additional information and legal advice on obtaining compensation to recover your damages.
Hospital Injury Lawyers in Chicago, IL Who Aren’t Afraid to Fight for Your Rights
The personal injury attorneys at Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers, LLC, handle medical malpractice claims and medical malpractice lawsuits through a contingency fee agreement so that you avoid paying any upfront fees.
Many Illinois law offices understandably shy away from medical malpractice lawsuits because they can be too challenging and time-consuming.
However, our entire personal injury legal team from our law firm has experience both negotiating settlements and trying medical negligence cases in court.
Please contact our medical malpractice lawyers at (888) 424-5757 to schedule a free consultation to discuss your medical malpractice lawsuit options in settling with insurance companies, or taking your compensation case to trial.
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Our Chicago, IL law firm accepts all medical malpractice cases through contingency fee agreements. This arrangement ensures you and your loved one are not charged a legal fee until we obtain compensation in your case.
Families who lost a loved one through a preventable death can file a wrongful death lawsuit. These medical malpractice claims pay for damages, including medical expenses, lost earnings, loss of consortium, funeral and burial expenses, pain, and suffering.
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Our practice areas include motor vehicle crashes, work-related accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, product liability, and wrongful death. Attorneys from our law offices currently represent injured clients throughout the state of Illinois.