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Illinois Medical Malpractice Lawyer ◦ Misdiagnosis ◦ Accidents

If you or a family member has suffered serious harm in Illinois because of a doctor's error (misdiagnosis, surgical error, or prescription error, for example), my firm can help you through this difficult time.

Contact my law office in Chicago, Illinois to schedule a free initial consultation and discuss your experience, and what you can do next, with an experienced medical malpractice and personal injury attorney.

There are all types of misdiagnosis cases. Sometimes a doctor or hospital fails to diagnosis an illness, such as cancer, a bone fracture, meningitis, or a heart attack. As a lawyer, I have successfully handled cases for failure to diagnosis heart conditions, brain injuries, breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, Hodgkins lymphoma, and prostate cancer.

I have also won cases where patients are given an incorrect diagnosis. For example, I recovered $4.8 million dollars for a young woman who was diagnosed as having the flu, when she actually had a brain infection called herpes encephalitis. Similarly, I obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars for a young man who was told that he was HIV positive when he actually did not have the AIDS virus.

In my experience, mistakes are frequently made when doctors and nurses are rushed and do not spend enough time with the patients. Similarly, mistakes can occur when a patient is seen by too many different doctors, residents, and nurses and no one person understands the patient's history or overall problems.

Frequently, after thorough preparation and obtaining qualified experts who are willing to testify that malpractice occurred, I have been able to successfully settle these types of cases before proceeding to trial. If you feel that you have been misdiagnosed or an error has been made, contact me. We can discuss it.

At Leopold & Associates, LLC, the same techniques used to win medical malpractice cases are applied to all accident cases. As an attorney for 30 years, I have handled brain damage, paralysis, death, amputation and other injuries from not only car accidents, but also accidents involving motorcycles, buses, bicycles, horseback riding, playground equipment, toys, trains, medical devices and fires.

Where children or wage earners have been injured, I have frequently been able to obtain multi-million dollar structured settlements that will support them for the rest of their lives. When an injury is permanent, the amount recovered should last a lifetime.

Please see my attorney profile for information on my distinguished experience in personal injury and medical malpractice law. Contact Leopold & Associates, L.L.C., to schedule a free initial consultation with a caring and confident Cook County injury and accidental death lawyer.