{"id":1543,"date":"2014-05-01T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2014-04-26T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T18:22:32","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-defense-verdict-medical-malpractice-case-first-ended-3-7-million-jury-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-defense-verdict-medical-malpractice-case-first-ended-3-7-million-jury-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms a Defense Verdict in a Medical-Malpractice Case That Had First Ended With a $3.7 Million Jury Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In May 2001, Michael Hamilton was a worker at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behr.com\/consumer\/\">Behr Process Corp.<\/a> plant in Chicago Heights, Ill., when he began experiencing severe pain.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>He was taken by ambulance to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franciscanalliance.org\/hospitals\/chicagoheights\/Pages\/default.aspx\">St. James Hospital <\/a>in Chicago Heights, Ill.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the hospital, Hamilton was met by Dr. Jose Almeida.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Within a few hours, Hamilton was discharged saying that his pain had ended.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>He was instructed to see his primary care physician the next day.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>However, the next day Hamilton was found dead in his mother\u2019s apartment.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>An autopsy revealed that Hamilton died of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cardiac_tamponade\">pericardia tamponade<\/a>, which is blood surrounding the heart as a result of an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aortic_dissection\">aortic dissection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The mother of Hamilton, Evelyn Hart, filed a lawsuit in Cook County claiming that the hospital, St. James and Dr. Almeida, as well as the doctor\u2019s employer, Excel Emergency Care LLC, were negligent.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-defense-verdict-medical-malpractice-case-first-ended-3-7-million-jury-verdict\/#more-1543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2001, Michael Hamilton was a worker at the Behr Process Corp. plant in Chicago Heights, Ill., when he began experiencing severe pain.\u00a0 He was taken by ambulance to St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights, Ill.\u00a0 At the hospital, Hamilton was met by Dr. Jose Almeida.\u00a0 Within a few hours, Hamilton was discharged saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,40,15,21,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiac-arrest","category-cardiology-errors","category-emergency-room-errors","category-misdiagnosis","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Affirms a Defense Verdict in a Medical-Malpractice Case That Had First Ended With a $3.7 Million Jury Verdict &#8212; 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