Category: Medical Malpractice

Cerebral palsy is a medical condition commonly linked to negligent actions or errors a medical professional makes during prenatal care and childbirth. When a child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy early in life, it's important to find out if the condition was caused by negligent medical actions and whether can you sue for cerebral palsy.

You may be able to sue for medical malpractice if the outcome of your medical treatment was unexpected, but only if it can be shown that the outcome was due to a failure on the part of the medical professional to meet the standard of care. In a medical malpractice case, simply having an undesirable or unexpected result doesn’t necessarily

Medical errors affect countless people every day, but proving negligence in a medical malpractice case can be challenging. What if the doctor acknowledges the mistake? While rare, such admissions do occur, and they can sometimes speed up the resolution of injury cases. However, a doctor’s acknowledgment of an error doesn't automatically establish legal liability for medical malpractice. In Chicago, there

Medical malpractice cases can be complicated and lengthy due to the burden of proof necessary to validate medical negligence. Before you can file a lawsuit in civil court, Illinois law requires you to get an affidavit of merit to confirm that your case is valid and prove that the accused medical professional violated the acceptable standard of medical care for

Before you can file a lawsuit against a medical professional for negligent actions in Illinois, the law requires you to get an affidavit of merit for medical malpractice. This affidavit shows proof to the court that you have consulted with another medical professional who is qualified to serve as a medical expert in your case.

If your child was born with a deformity, disability, or long-term illness, can you sue a doctor for a birth injury? While some birth injuries result from natural causes, many are caused by a medical professional's negligent actions during pregnancy, delivery, or follow-up care. If you suspect that your doctor's careless actions caused your child's injury, you must prove medical

When you have a serious medical condition that goes untreated, it can mean the difference between life and death due to various types of complications from infections, internal bleeding, organ damage, heart attack, and stroke. If you are suffering from a delayed medical diagnosis, you can file a delayed diagnosis lawsuit in Illinois with a medical malpractice lawyer to get

Signing a waiver or consent form before a medical treatment or surgical procedure may or may not impact your legal right to file a medical malpractice lawsuit if something goes wrong. Generally, an informed consent lawsuit relies on an assumption of risk defense, which does not hold medical defendants responsible. However, in Illinois, medical waivers are not automatically enforceable, even

A Peoria County teenager was recently successful in a birth injury lawsuit against a pediatric surgeon who caused her serious injury more than a decade ago. Although treating infants comes with challenges, parents often have the expectation that physicians will do all they can to appropriately treat their babies. Harm occurring during such care can have lasting effects, physically, emotionally,