{"id":3851,"date":"2018-01-09T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2018-01-08T06:32:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T12:32:01","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-reverses-jurys-verdict-defendant-medical-malpractice-case-admission-improper-trial-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-jurys-verdict-defendant-medical-malpractice-case-admission-improper-trial-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Jury\u2019s Verdict of Defendant in Medical Malpractice Case Over the Admission of Improper Trial Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this medical malpractice lawsuit, injuries were suffered by the plaintiff, Lisa Swift, during a 2010 laparoscopic hysterectomy by the defendant Dr. David J. Schleicher. During this surgical procedure, Dr. Schleicher perforated Swift\u2019s small bowel with three through-and-through holes. The doctor chose not to diagnose the perforations until four days after the surgery. Swift developed sepsis, needed a bowel resection surgery and then suffered additional complications that required hospitalization and home health care. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to Dr. Schleicher, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swedishamerican.org\/\">Swedish American Health System Corp.<\/a> and its related companies were also made defendants. These defendants admitted that they caused the injury but argued that the injuries were not the result of negligence. At the end of the jury trial, the jury agreed with defendants and found in favor of them and against Swift. <\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff Swift filed a motion for a new trial, which was denied by the trial court. As a result, Swift took an appeal arguing that the trial judge committed reversible error by (1) allowing evidence that plaintiff\u2019s expert, Dr. Robert Dein, caused a bowel injury in 1989; (2) allowed cumulative defense testimony; and (3) declined to find the verdict against the manifest weight of the evidence.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-jurys-verdict-defendant-medical-malpractice-case-admission-improper-trial-evidence\/#more-3851\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this medical malpractice lawsuit, injuries were suffered by the plaintiff, Lisa Swift, during a 2010 laparoscopic hysterectomy by the defendant Dr. David J. Schleicher. During this surgical procedure, Dr. Schleicher perforated Swift\u2019s small bowel with three through-and-through holes. The doctor chose not to diagnose the perforations until four days after the surgery. Swift developed [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72,4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sepsis","category-surgical-errors","category-trial-procedure"],"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 Reverses Jury\u2019s Verdict of Defendant in Medical Malpractice Case Over the Admission of Improper Trial Evidence &#8212; Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this medical malpractice lawsuit, injuries were suffered by the plaintiff, Lisa Swift, during a 2010 laparoscopic hysterectomy by the defendant Dr.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-jurys-verdict-defendant-medical-malpractice-case-admission-improper-trial-evidence\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Jury\u2019s Verdict of Defendant in Medical Malpractice Case Over the Admission of Improper Trial Evidence &#8212; 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