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$500,000 Jury Verdict for Injury to Patient Whose Eyesight Was Harmed by Negligent Cataract Surgery

Deborah DeFranko was diagnosed by ophthalmologist Dr. Taylor Poole as having cataracts. Dr. Poole performed cataract surgery on DeFranko’s eyes over the course of one month. During the cataract procedures, Dr. Poole placed Toric lenses in both eyes. A Toric lense is a contact lense that is shaped in a…

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$1.5 Million Cook County Jury Verdict for Medical Negligence in Handling Eye Infection

On Aug. 31, 2010, 58-year-old Romil Pityou went to the Gerstein Eye Institute in Chicago with complaints of pain, redness and decreased vision in his right eye. He was treated by the defendant Melvyn A. Gerstein, M.D., an ophthalmologist. Over the next three weeks, he continued to undergo treatment by…

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