This year New Orleans was the host city for the American Association for Justice’s mid-year meeting. Illinois attorney Robert Kreisman, a civil justice attorney, attended the seminars and the birth trauma litigation group’s day long event on Monday, February 9, 2009. Attorneys practicing civil justice traveled from all over the…
In the many years that I have practiced medical malpractice in Cook County and Illinois, my clients have warned me that the pertinant medical records in their case had been falsified, changed, deleted or simply removed from the hospital and medical charts. In Illinois, the “intentional destruction, mutilation, alteration or…
Erb’s palsy is a injury to a child’s brachial plexus nerves caused by an abnormal or difficult child birth. The brachial plexus is a cluster of nerves in your neck that control all arm movements. Erb’s palsy can be caused by excessive pulling on the shoulders of the infant by…
A Cook County jury verdict was entered in favor of the University of Chicago Hospitals in a 2005 trial and was upheld on appeal to the Illinois Appellate Court (Kashief Weathers et al. v. University of Chicago Hospitals, et al., No. 1-061726). In the case, several doctors were accused of…