Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog

A gynecologist failed to discover a growing mass on a woman’s breast. The mass was then detected a year later by her family physician and was determined to be terminal cancer. The 34-year-old woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against her gynecologist claiming that the doctor failed to discover the cancer during her exam. The woman had filled out a form that clearly stated she had a pain in her breast. The medical malpractice lawsuit claims that the family doctor had felt something in the victim’s breast during a breast exam and encouraged her to seek a mammogram. It was then discovered that she had a cancerous tumor growing in her breast. The cancer spread to a bone in her back and it was determined that the cancer was incurable. To learn more about the medical malpractice lawsuit, please click the link.

A woman claims a doctor and a hospital failed to properly interpret the results of a biopsied piece of vaginal tissue that turned out to be malignant. The medical malpractice lawsuit was filed after the doctors failed to diagnose her with cancer. Doctors first removed the vaginal tissue samples from her and performed a biopsy. The results then were sent to a specialist who failed to recognize that the biopsy and tissue samples showed presence of cancer. The cancer remained untreated for “a substantial period of time” which caused the victim to sustain severe injuries. The woman claims that the medical error caused her to lose wages; experienced pain, suffering, disability, loss of a normal life, disfigurement, an increased risk of future injuries and diminished her life expectancy. The medical malpractice lawsuit stated that if the cancer were treated sooner then she would have incurred less medical expenses. The lawsuit seeks a judgment of more than $150,000 plus costs. To learn more about the medical malpractice lawsuit, please click the link.

A woman is suing a hospital and two physicians for negligence and wrongful death after a hospital failed to diagnose a cancerous nodule. The man was given diagnostics tests, including a CT scan of his chest, which revealed a nodule on his lung that should have been considered malignant, but was considered to be negative. The man was discharged from the hospital unaware of the fact that he had a malignant nodule on his lung. Following his discharge, the man was admitted to the hospital again for experiencing extreme pain in multiple areas his body and it was then discovered that he was suffering from metastatic lung disease. The cancer had already spread to his bones. The man claims that the negligence and carelessness of the hospital caused a significant delay in the victim’s treatment. The surviving relatives are suing for medical malpractice and wrongful death damages. To read more about the misdiagnosis, please click the link.

A misdiagnosis of cancer led to a woman’s death. The woman’s mother had died of cancer so she was particularly concerned when she discovered a large bump on the top of her head. After seeing her doctor, he claimed the cyst was nonmalignant. It was removed a week later by a medical technician who then disposed of the cyst and did not send it for medical testing. A year later, the cyst came back but could not be removed because the woman was pregnant. The new doctor diagnosed it as sarcoma. The woman died later. Her husband filed a wrongful death medical malpractice suit against the original doctor. The jury found for the widow and held he should receive 1.5 million dollars in a medical malpractice award.

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A woman was awarded $24 million in a medical malpractice suit against her doctors for the failure to diagnose her breast cancer lump. The woman claims she had complained of a lump in her breast to her doctor but her doctor assured her not to worry about the lump until her next visit. At the next visit, the doctor decided not to order a mammogram. Not until the woman saw her doctor’s partner was her lump diagnosed as breast cancer that had spread to her liver. The medical malpractice jury verdict is believed to be one of the largest in the state’s history.

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A patient filed a medical malpractice case against her OB/GYN physician for neglect in diagnosing her of cancer. The patient complained of a lump in her breast to her physician who then failed to diagnose the lump in a timely matter for breast cancer. Not until after the woman became pregnant did her OB/GYN take a mammogram and ultrasound to determine the lump was in fact breast cancer. The failure to diagnose cancer and subsequent surgeries and chemotherapy left the woman extremely leak and unable to come to trial. The woman was awarded $24 million for medical malpractice against her doctors.

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A man filed a medical malpractice claim against his wife’s doctor who allegedly failed to diagnose her with ovarian cancer when giving birth to their son. She died a year later. The man asserts the doctor missed a tumor on his wife’s uterus that was visible on six different ultrasounds. The man has received a jury verdict awarding him $2.9 million for medical malpractice.

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A deceased man’s wife was awarded a large jury award of $1.88 million for medical malpractice regarding the deceased. The man died of cancer even though his doctors had seen him several times before ever being diagnosed. The failure to diagnose the man’s bladder cancer spurred his wife to seek a medical malpractice attorney.

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The son of a deceased man claims doctors failed to diagnose his father for prostate cancer, although they had been seeing the man up until his death. The son is now filing a medical malpractice suit against the doctors for failure to diagnose. However, the deceased man’s death certificate lists several causes of death.

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A deceased woman’s estate has filed a medical malpractice suit after the woman died of cancer. The estate alleges her physicians failed to diagnose a lesion on her scalp as cancerous in a timely fashion. The doctors did not diagnose the woman’s lesion as cancer until the lesion had returned and two different tests were sent to labs. The woman underwent four different surgeries to remove cancer that had spread to other parts of her body by the time she was diagnosed. The estate now amends is medical malpractice complaint to include a wrongful death action.

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A deceased woman’s estate has filed a medical malpractice suit after the woman died of cancer. The estate alleges her physicians failed to diagnose a lesion on her scalp as cancerous in a timely fashion. The doctors did not diagnose the woman’s lesion as cancer until the lesion had returned and two different tests were sent to labs. The woman underwent four different surgeries to remove cancer that had spread to other parts of her body by the time she was diagnosed. The estate now amends is medical malpractice complaint to include a wrongful death action.

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An Indiana surgeon with a practice in Chicago’s suburbs has fled to Greece after being found guilty of medical malpractice by a panel of three physicians. The man was found guilty of medical negligence after misdiagnosing a patient. He diagnosed the patient as requiring sinus surgery when in turn the patient died of throat cancer.

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According to a patient of Gregory and Musick Dermatology, a doctor failed to diagnose her basal cell carcinoma. After visiting the doctor on two different occasions, carcinoma on her left facial cheek was detected. The woman claims the failed diagnosis has caused her additional surgery and has suffered disfigurement and disability. In her complaint, she alleges the doctor was medically negligent when he failed to diagnosis her condition and failed to refer her to anyone else for treatment.

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A hospital’s misdiagnosis a boy’s cancer led to his death according to his family’s complaint filed against the hospital. The hospital originally diagnosed the son with bacterial meningitis and released him. The condition later was determined to be an aggressive form of anaplastic central nervous system T-cell lymphoma cancer that killed the boy. Two of the four patients that received the boy’s organs have died from the cancer. The lawsuit also claims doctor negligence.

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A jury found a doctor’s misdiagnosis of cancer led to the death of a young woman. If not for the delay in treatment, the woman’s survival chances were strong. The 24-year old woman had rectal and colon cancer that went undiagnosed for seven months by her doctor. The family brought a medical malpractice lawsuit against the doctor in which they were awarded $2.5 million dollars by the jury.

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A jury has returned a $5.8 million medical-malpractice verdict in the wrongful death of a 47-year lawyer whose untreated mole turned into a skin cancer that spread to his brain. The award will be reduced to $3.6 million due to the state’s cap on non-economic damages in medical-malpractice cases. The jury found that the lawyer’s death was caused by the negligence of a doctor who was employed with a physician’s association. Although the jury found that the doctor was not personally liable, they determined that the medical practice was responsible for the damage award. The medical malpractice suit alleged that the medical practice had negligently left untreated a mole that doctors had examined in 1998 and again in 2004 that turned out to be cancerous. The victim had gone to a dermatology practice for a checkup in 1998 and the doctor recommended that another physician remove it. Each doctor then mistakenly assumed that the other had taken care of it. The man then returned 6 years later for a full-body skin check because he had painful boils and his upper back. Upon returning the doctors concluded that although the mole had more than doubled in size it was still not cancerous. The doctor was unaware of the mole’s growth because he did not have access to the victim’s 1998 record. Soon the patient was diagnosed with skin cancer which had spread to his lymph nodes in his groin and lower abdomen. Although he received many treatments, the cancer remained and he died. To read the full story, click here.

A Chicago suburban family says they will never know for certain if a tumor removed from their daughter two years ago was cancerous, since Children’s Memorial Hospital lost the tumor. A negligence medical malpractice lawsuit was filed this week in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of Kara Morris by the lawyers at Levin & Perconti. The medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the surgeons removed a tumor and lost it before a biopsy could determine whether it was cancerous. The 16 year old patient was informed that she would never know whether or not the tumor was malignant. In addition to the stress of the situation, the teen will most likely face great difficulties obtaining individual insurance as she moves into adulthood because of her uncertain health status. To read the full story, click here.

A jury found a podiatrist liable for medical malpractice after he removed a growth from a woman’s big toe. The man did not check the growth for cancer, yet the podiatrist did no such tests. The mother of two was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma a year after having the growth removed. The jury concluded that the woman’s chances of beating the cancer were greatly reduced because the podiatrist failed to have tissue from the excised growth tested for cancer. According to the patient, the podiatrist placed the lesion in the container and told them he would take it for testing. The woman is now in stage three of the cancer and she has just a 17 percent chance of living another 12 years. The trial lasted 5 days and the jury returned a verdict of more than $8.1 million in damages. To read the full story, click here.

A family from north suburban Chicago will never know for certain if a tumor removed from their daughter two years ago is cancerous because Children’s Memorial Hospital lost the tumor. After the 16 year old underwent surgery to remove the tumor from her thyroid, Children’s Memorial Hospital lost the tumor before a biopsy could be performed. The family, along with the attorneys, at Levin & Perconti filed a medical malpractice suit against the hospital so that other families do not have to go through the anguish that they are facing. The young woman will never be certain as to whether or not she had cancer. To read the full story, click here.

The attorneys at Levin & Perconti have filed a medical malpractice lawsuit on behalf of a Chicago suburban teen that underwent surgery at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago in 2006. The teen is claiming that the hospital lost a tumor removed from her thyroid before it could be biopsied. The medical malpractice suit claims that after having surgery to remove a tumor encased in the girl’s thyroid, Children’s Hospital lost the tumor before they could determine if it was cancerous. This hospital negligence caused and continues to cause emotional stress and anxiety for the teen, as she will never know for certain if she does or does not have cancer. During the surgery doctors removed the tumor and a portion of the teen’s thyroid. When her and her family returned to receive the biopsy results, the family told them that because they lost the sample no biopsy could be performed and no determination regarding the presence of cancer could be made. The young teen cannot go a day without thinking about it, because she is always uncertain as to whether she has cancer. The attorneys at Levin & Perconti filed the medical malpractice lawsuit because Children’s Hospital’s inexcusable loss of the tumor will cause her lifelong stress. To read the full story, click here.