Attorney Brian Hurst's Legal Cases

Medical malpractice

Walsh v. Wolin, MD, et al.

Sep 15, 2009

OUTCOME: $2,650,000 Verdict for Plaintiff

Brian Hurst, Thomas Boleky and Ernest W. Beutel, MD, obtained a $2.65 Million medical malpractice verdict in the Circuit Court of Cook County against a local ophthalmologist who treated a chalazion (sm ... all pimple-like bump) on his patient’s left lower eyelid by injecting the chalazion with a corticosteroid. It was alleged the corticosteroid was negligently injected into the patient’s central retinal artery causing complete and permanent loss of vision in the patient’s left eye as a result of ischemia.

Medical malpractice

MacDonald v. Eng, MD, et al.

May 15, 2008

OUTCOME: $2,400,000 Verdict for Plaintiff

Brian Hurst obtained a $2.4 Million medical malpractice verdict in the Circuit Court of Cook County against St. Francis Hospital of Blue Island, Illinois, and its emergency room physician, for an alleg ... ed failure to timely diagnose and treat the patient’s acute arterial insufficiency. The patient, a 51-year-old male, presented to the emergency department of the defendant hospital in the middle of the night following a fall on his stairs at home. It was alleged the fall caused an acute arterial injury to the patient’s right leg, resulting in an acute arterial insufficiency to his right lower extremity. Plaintiff sought to show that the failure to timely diagnose and treat the acute arterial insufficiency with an emergent re-vascularization procedure resulted in an above-the-knee amputation of the patient’s right leg the following morning.

Medical malpractice

Confidential v. Kim, MD, et al.

May 25, 2005

OUTCOME: $5,000,000 Verdict for Plaintiff

Brian Hurst and Ernest W. Beutel, MD, obtained a $5 Million verdict in the Circuit Court of Cook County on behalf of a 57-year-old woman and her husband, formerly of DuPage County, in a trial where it ... was alleged the patient suffered the functional loss of her vagina as a result of an unnecessary suburethral sling procedure for stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The sling procedure, it was alleged, was unnecessary due to the fact the patient did not suffer from SUI and did not undergo a proper work-up for SUI, the condition for which a suburethral sling would be indicated. The sling eventually eroded into the patient’s vagina, resulting in permanent scarring, infection, a loss of sexual function, and necessitating several surgical procedures. The woman and her husband have been unable to have intercourse since the performance of the procedure.

Appeals

Booker v. Lal, MD, et al.

Mar 01, 2000

OUTCOME: For Plaintiff-Appellant

In Booker v. Lal, 312 Ill.App.3d 170, 726 NE.2d. 638, 244 Ill. Dec. 663 (1st Dist. 2000), leave to appeal denied, 731 N.E.2d 762, 246 Ill. Dec. 913, Mr. Hurst successfully represented the heirs of the ... estate of a deceased woman whom the defense had sought to exclude as wrongful death beneficiaries. Mr. Hurst authored the main and reply briefs and argued the case before the 1st District Appellate Court, Justice Cahill, presiding.

Brian Hurst's Legal Cases (4)

Walsh v. Wolin, MD, et al.

MacDonald v. Eng, MD, et al.

Confidential v. Kim, MD, et al.

Booker v. Lal, MD, et al.