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A jury in the Circuit Court of Cook County has awarded $41 million to a 72-year-old lawyer whose cerebral artery stroke was brought on by medical mismanagement at the Peoria-based OSF HealthCare ...
Robert A. Clifford (1950 or 1951) [1] is a Chicago trial lawyer and principal partner at Clifford Law Offices. Clifford's firm specializes in "personal injury, medical malpractice, mass torts, consumer and health care fraud, product liability, and aviation and transportation disasters."
Edward Robert Vrdolyak (/ v ər ˈ d oʊ l i. æ k /; born December 28, 1937), also known as "Fast Eddie", is a former American politician and lawyer.He was a longtime Chicago alderman and the head of the Cook County Democratic Party until 1987 when he ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Chicago on the Illinois Solidarity Party ticket.
$64 million verdict on behalf of an injured ironworker who fell and was left paralyzed from a job-site accident. The verdict was noted as the highest jury verdict in Illinois history for an individual, beating the previous record verdict of $51 million. [6] [7] The National Law Journal recognized the verdict in their Top 100 verdicts of 2012. [8]
Prisma Health has settled a lawsuit with a group of doctors who had accused the health network of “abysmal” conditions at the physicians’ former office.
The law firm was established in Orlando, Florida, in 1988 by John Morgan and his partners Stewart Colling and Ron Gilbert. [6] In 1989, the law firm began advertising on television and radio. [7] In 2005, Morgan bought out his partners' share of the company and renamed the firm "Morgan & Morgan", also adding his wife Ultima as partner. [8]
In common law jurisdictions, medical malpractice liability is normally based on the tort of negligence. [3]Although the law of medical malpractice differs significantly between nations, as a broad general rule liability follows when a health care practitioner does not show a fair, reasonable and competent degree of skill when providing medical care to a patient. [3]
J.G. Wentworth was formed by James D. Delaney and Gary Veloric in 1991 as a merchant bank specializing in transactions in the healthcare industry. [6] [7] In 1992, the company began to purchase New Jersey auto insurance deferrals from claimants who could not afford to wait twelve to eighteen months for their settlements. [8]