Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney

Illinois Medical Negligence Lawyer

When we entrust our health and well-being to the care of trained, licensed health care providers, we do so with confidence that acceptable standards of care will be followed. If you or a loved one has been injured because health care provider failed to follow these standards, contact me, Chicago medical malpractice lawyer Valerie Leopold to schedule a free consultation.

Emergency rooms, surgical centers, and birthing centers all have moral and legal responsibilities for the patients that they serve. When hospital negligence or medical error results in serious harm to or death of patients, medical malpractice claims are not only for the sake of obtaining monetary compensation for the injured or for the sake of the family left behind. A large settlement or verdict also sends a message to the medical community about society's expectations and demands that patients receive the highest standards of care.

Medical malpractice may encompass a wide range of events, including the following:

• Surgical error (leaving foreign objects in the body, operating on the wrong body part, erroneously severing nerves or blood vessels, and other devastating mistakes)
• Emergency room errors (failure to diagnose, failure to treat in a timely manner)
• Birth injuries caused by negligence of OB personnel during pregnancy, labor, delivery, or neonatal care
• Drug mistakes (manufacture, prescription, or administration of defective drugs on the part of doctors, nursing homes, pharmacies, or pain clinics)
• Hypoxic or anoxic brain injuries resulting from anesthesia error or birth injury
• Misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose cancer

Example Case

In one case, a pregnant woman with a known history of miscarriages was not given a simple procedure, called a cervical cerclage, to help prevent another miscarriage. As a result, she again delivered early and her baby became blind with retinopathy of prematurity.

In another case, a young woman was given an antibiotic that she was allergic to right before delivery. She had an anaphylactic reaction, resulting in her baby being born with permanent brain damage.

In each of these lawsuits, millions of dollars was obtained for each child.

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If you or a family member has experienced injury or loss in a health care setting, let me hear your story, and learn how I can help you through this. Let me help you and your family get through a tough time. Contact an experienced Chicago medical malpractice lawyer at Leopold & Associates, LLC to schedule a free consultation.