Medical Malpractice

A 68-year-old husband and father died due to medical negligence in the failure to review and work up abdominal echocardiogram findings.

A 30-year-old man who died due to medical negligence from failing to timely diagnose and treat a staph aureus surgical site infection after a back surgery. Infection progressed to staph aureus meningitis. Decedent left behind his parents and four siblings.

Joseph Murphy secured a $520,000 result on behalf of a minor whose appendix ruptured when a Chicago area hospital failed to diagnose an appendicitis.

A record $66 million judgement was obtained on behalf of a 39-year-old mother of four who bled to death following a negligent surgical procedure that went unnoticed. Read more here.

A 55-year-old male died of a pulmonary embolism due to DVT which developed after ankle surgery because no anticoagulants were prescribed.

A 59-year-old man died due to an allegedly undiagnosed aortic dissection. He left surviving him a wife and two sons.

A 46-year-old man died as a result of a failure to treat his known coronary artery disease.

A 15-year-old boy died during an extubation procedure.

A 67-year-old woman died as a result of negligent care of a cardiologist, electrophysiologic, and an advanced practice nurse over a period of 16 months.