A Hartform Superior Court on Tuesday awarded a $2.69 million award to a mother and her 4-year-old son, determining an obstetrician was liable for nerve injuries the child suffered during child birth. This may be the largest medical malpractice verdict in Connecticut for this type of childbirth injury.
As a result of nerve injury suffered during [...]
Governor Blagojevich is taking at least partial credit for what appears to be a major drop in medical malpractice insurance rates for Illinois Physicians. According to a press release on the State of Illinois website, Medpro is reducing medical malpractice insurance premiums by 32 percent across the state.
Illinois reforms over the past year increased publicly [...]
On October 12, 2006, a state appeals court threw out a jury award of $350,000. A Chicago man had attempted to recover claimed damages for being incorrectly diagnosed as HIV positive. The original jury award was for $350,000. In a possible precedent setting case in Illinois, the 1st District Appellate Court in Chicago decided in [...]