Jeryis Flores presented to Chicago’s Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in her 39th week of pregnancy. External fetal monitoring showed a normal heart rate with good beat-to-beat variability.
Approximately eight hours later, the baby was delivered by emergency cesarean section. Despite efforts to resuscitate the child, the baby died.
Flores and her husband sued Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp., Advocate North Side Health Network, the attending obstetrician and a labor and delivery nurse; they alleged medical malpractice and wrongful death.
The Flores family claimed that the defendants had ignored clear warning signs of fetal distress and chose not to intervene in a timely manner to save the child.
At trial, the jury signed a verdict for $7.5 million plus interest.
The attorneys successfully representing the Flores family were Clark Raymond and Robert Raymond.
Flores v. Vijayakumar, No. 2020 L 010272 (Ill. Cir. Ct. Cook County, Ill.).
Kreisman Law Offices has been handling obstetrician negligence lawsuits, labor and delivery negligence cases, fetal distress lawsuits, and wrongful death 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 Naperville, New Lenox, Elmhurst, Addison, Carol Stream, Hinsdale, Downers Grove, Hickory Hills, Chicago (Bronzeville, Hyde Park, Jackson Park, South Shore, Chicago Lawn, McKinley Park, Little Village, Humboldt Park, Wrigleyville, Wicker Park, Old Town, Noble Square, West Town), Maywood, Oakbrook, Skokie, Vernon Hills, and Lake Bluff, Ill.
Robert D. Kreisman has been an active member of the Illinois and Missouri bars since 1976.
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