At 32 weeks gestation, Alexis Willis arrived at Advocate Trinity Hospital in Chicago. She was complaining of a headache and decreased fetal movement. At the hospital, she was diagnosed as having preeclampsia and was connected to a fetal heart monitor. The fetal heart monitor showed variable deceleration and an absence of viability and acceleration.
After about two hours, the fetal heart monitor showed a prolonged deceleration. Willis was taken to the operating room, where the baby’s heart-rate was reported as bradycardic. Bradycardia is a condition where the heart beats more slowly than expected, under 60 beats per minute in adults. Approximately 25 minutes later, Willis’s daughter was born in a depressed condition; the baby required resuscitation. The baby’s Apgar scores were 3 at 1 minute and 5 at 5 minutes. The baby, who is now 7 years old, has been diagnosed as having hypoxic-ischemic brain damage and cerebral palsy.
Willis and the baby’s father sued the hospital and an attending physician, maintaining that they chose not to perform a timely cesarean delivery.
The jury signed a verdict for $23.07 million.
The attorneys successfully handling this matter for the Willis family were Mary Koch, David Grzechowiak, John LaMantia, Soobin Lee and Joseph Konrad.
Willis v. Advocate Health and Hospital Corp., 20 L 002753 (Ill. Cir. Ct. Cook County).
Kreisman Law Offices has been handling birth trauma injury lawsuits, delayed cesarean delivery lawsuits, cerebral palsy injury lawsuits, and labor and delivery negligence cases for individuals, families and loved ones who have been harmed, injured or died as a result of the carelessness or negligence of a medical provider for more than 49 years in and around Chicago, Cook County and its surrounding areas, including Lincoln Park, Elk Grove Village, Elmhurst, Morton Grove, Oak Park, Westmont, Hodgkins, Palos Hills, Crestwood, Palos Park, Lemont, Park Ridge, Itasca, Chicago (Mount Greenwood, Beverly, Riverdale, East Side, Douglas, Oakland, South Lawndale, Humboldt Park, Logan Square, Lincoln Park, Logan Square), Bolingbrook, Mundelein, Lemont, and Wilmette, Ill.
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