Proietto v. County of Cook, John Stroger Hospital, Et.al.

Jan 06, 2010

OUTCOME: $2,000,000 Settlement

A 52 year old Polish Immigrant man had a heart attack and was brought to Stroger Hospital in Chicago. The Doctors at Stroger tried unsuccessfully to re open his obstructed cardiac artery with an angiop ... lasty. Thereafter he was scheduled for a cardiac bypass surgery which was to be performed 3 days later. On the morning of surgery the cardiac surgery was cancelled and the man was discharged from the hospital with instructions to follow up with his doctors as an outpatient and they would determine if cardiac surgery was necessary. Our clients husband did follow up with two outpatient visits but died of another heart attack 31 days after his discharge. We were able to show that there was no valid reason to not perform the surgery and that had he had the surgery he would have a near normal life expectancy.

_____ vs. PWC

Nov 30, 2009

OUTCOME: $10,000,000.00 Settlement

Accounting Malpractice $10 million settlement

______ vs Miller

Apr 27, 2009

OUTCOME: $150,000 Settlement

Blutcher v. Roseland Community Hospital

Nov 05, 2008

OUTCOME: $3,186,047.00

A Cook County jury reached a verdict awarding $3,186,047.00 in a medical malpractice case brought by a former attorney against Roseland Community Hospital. David Blutcher, a 37 year old attorney, ... went to Roseland Community Hospital on July 1, 1995, with complaints of shortness of breath. While there, he had an onset of chest pain that went untreated and untested until he was transferred to another hospital five hours later. Plaintiff alleged that the hospital was negligent in its care and also negligent in credentialing the emergency room physician. After being transferred to the other hospital, he received anticoagulants that relieved his pain and opened his blocked heart vessel. According to Blutcher’s attorney, Stephen D. Phillips of Phillips Law Offices, the jury found that additional damage done to the heart by the delay caused a clot to form in the heart which was thrown to the brain, resulting in a stroke in December 1997. That stroke caused speech deficits that have left him unable to engage in his former law practice. The trial was presided over by Judge Allen S. Goldberg of the Law Division in the Circuit Court of Cook County. Mr. Blutcher was also represented at trial by Charles Hornewer and Terrence Quinn of Phillips Law Offices. Roseland Community Hospital was represented by David Loughnane and Carl Schultz of Johnson & Bell, Ltd.

___________ v. Dymon, Et.al.

Jun 10, 2008

OUTCOME: $275,000 Settlement

Kamalia vs. Suburban Lung Associates, Et. al.

N/A

OUTCOME: $7.4 million

A 42 year-old married woman sustained serious brain damage in a intensive care unit when the physicians failed to appropriately monitor her over a 17 hour time period. These defendants failed to make a ... ny offer to settle the case and told us that they thought they were going to win the case. The jury returned a verdict against these defendants for $7,000,000.00.