Peoria, IL
Defective and dangerous products Lawyer at Peoria, IL
Practice Areas: Defective and Dangerous Products, Medical Malpractice, Litigation
OUTCOME: defense verdict
Plaintiff alleged negligence in performance of thyroidectomy resulting in permanent partial vocal cord paralysis from injury to recurrent laryngeal nerve. Jury found no negligence on the part of Dr He ... ldon.
OUTCOME: verdict for defendant
This was the first case Synthes Ltd tried in America. Plaintiff alleged that a seven hole plate failed due to metallurgical defects. Defense convinced the jury that bone is stronger than metal so tha ... t if bone fails to heal it is only a matter of time before repetitive stress results in implant failure.
OUTCOME: verdict for defendant
Plaintiff alleged medical malpractice in failing to diagnose a saccular aneurysm in the Circle of Willis before it bled causing permanent diploplia. The jury found no negligence on the part of Dr Forr ... estier
OUTCOME: Plaintiff's verdict for $9000
Oral surgeon charged with negligence for injury of alveolar nerve in extraction of cementoma from lower mandible leaving 47 year old male with permanent paralysis of one angle of his mouth. This cause ... d constant uncontrollable drooling and extrusion of food when eating and permanent parasthesia of half of the lower lip. Jury found surgeon negligent and then reduced the plaintiff's $40,000 verdict to $9000 based on his comparative negligence in failing to observe good habits of oral hygiene. This result was reversed by the Illinois Supreme Court which ruled that the negligence of a patient which contibutes to cause a condition which is treated negligently will not deemed comparative negligence.
OUTCOME: $1,500 plaintiff's verdict
Plaintiff alleged negligence in the monitoring of coumadin in post partum thrombophlebitis case. 23 year old female patient died of unknown causes without autopsy and PT time of 3 minutes 49 seconds. ... Jury returned a $75,000 verdict for the decedent's husband and 3 minor children and then reduced it by 98% for the decedent's comparative negligence in not presenting for all her scheduled PT tests. Net wrongful death verdict of $1,500.00. The Fourth Dist Appellate Court of Illinois reversed the verdict and remanded for a second trial.
OUTCOME: Hung Jury 11 to1 for def.
Plaintiff's widow alleged nursing malpractice for failure to monitor her 78 year old husband subsequent to his hosptialization for thrombophlebitis and that this wrongfully caused his death. One juror ... told the other 11 that she would be difficult to deal with even before deliberations started.
OUTCOME: verdict for the defendant
Heart surgeon was charged with negligence for leaving a 4 x 4 sponge in the right ventrical of a 38 year old policeman who underwent heart surgery for the removal of a large myxoma (tumor) of the righ ... t atrium. When cardiopulmonary bypass was reversed the sponge caused immediate death by saddle block embolism of the pulmonary outflow tract. The policeman's widow and 4 small children asked the jury for $1,250,000.00. The jury returned a verdict on no negligence in favor of Dr Reyes. The widow had settled prior to trial with the hospital for $200,000.00
OUTCOME: verdict for defendant
Plaintiff claimed dental negligence caused a life threatening infection in 39 year old diabetic nurse after having four wisdom teeth simultaneously extracted by a general dentist. The Jury returned a ... verdict in favor of Dr. Morton. The Third Dist Court of Appeals of Illinois affirmed.
OUTCOME: verdict for defendant
Plaintiff alleged negligence in surgical excision of astrocytoma from the wrist of a 37 year old male where the doctor left a needle inside the patients arm and discovered the needle was missing after ... closing the wound. The defendant asked a colleague to remove the needle 3 months later. It was found and removed in the second surgery. The jury found the defendant not liable to plaintiff for any damages.
OUTCOME: $58,000 verdict
Parents of deceased 3 year old male alleged medical negligence in the treatment of epiglottitis resulting in the child's death. The jury returned a verdict for the parents in the amount of $58,000.
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