Medical Malpractice

Settlement on behalf of a 49-year-old woman who developed advanced uterine cancer after a physician and hospital failed to follow-up for over 3 years on a lab result indicating a pre-cancerous condition in the uterus.

A 67-year-old female died when health care workers failed to timely recognize and treat her for aortic dissection.

Plaintiff, a 41-year-old woman experiencing sudden onset of chest pain, suffered permanent brain injury due to failure to timely recognize the signs and symptoms for a ruptured aortic aneurysm, failure to promptly and accurately interpret a chest CT angiogram and failure to timely perform emergent cardiothoracic surgery.

A 77-year-old male suffered a global anoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and died due to failure to appropriately perfuse the patient during a cardiopulmonary bypass procedure

An infant hemorrhaged to death due to a pediatric surgeon who inappropriately performed surgery for a congenital diaphragmatic hernia and bronchopulmonary sequestration.

Settlement on behalf of a baby who sustained brain damage at birth.

Settlement for negligent failure to perform a timely emergency delivery, resulting in serious and permanent brain injury to the newborn.

Clifford Law Offices obtained a record $101 million verdict on behalf of a baby who sustained brain damage at birth at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park. This case is the highest reported Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict. Click here to read more about the case.

Plaintiff went into septic shock and died when health care providers, at two different hospitals, failed to timely recognize the signs and symptoms of a bowel perforation and failed to timely take plaintiff back to surgery after client underwent a hernia repair.