September 27, 2012CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN A Cook County jury awarded $14,000,000 to a child born after 19 hours of labor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Evidence in the three week medical malpractice and birth injury trial showed that the obstetrician delayed delivery...
Read More September 27, 2012“ Outside the courthouse with the parents right after the verdict was received. On Monday, the law firm of [[title]] won a $14 million jury verdict against Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Dr. Elias Sabbagha for the family of a boy...
Read More September 1, 2012CHICAGO SUN TIMES A DuPage County jury has awarded a record $7,200,000 in damages to the family of a Naperville woman who died in 1999 after her doctor misdiagnosed her pneumonia as alcohol withdrawal. Instead of treating 48-year-old Claretta Roth...
Read More November 19, 2011CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN The Illinois Supreme Court reversed the 1st District Appellate Court and ruled that Jeff and Amy Clark could seek damages for emotional distress caused by the wrongful birth of their son. The Clarks had relied on...
Read More January 28, 2011CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN A Crestwood woman who filed a lawsuit against a Joliet hospital alleging it let an unqualified podiatrist operate on her left foot, leading to its amputation, was awarded $7.7 million in damages Friday by a Cook...
Read More February 4, 2010CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN In Circuit Court A Cook County jury has returned a $9 million verdict in favor of a disabled 20-year-old man whose mother claimed her son sustained severe brain damage and spastic quadriplegia as the result of...
Read More December 17, 2009Mark Stephan, a client of [[title]], fractured his neck when the wheel on his bicycle came off unexpectedly on a Chicago area roadway. Since then he has inspired our firm and the world with his relentless drive to teach himself...
Read More December 11, 2009If you have been following Mark Stephan’s courageous fight to learn to walk again then you should look at this video of Mark leaving the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Although his neck was broken in several places and his limbs...
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