Madeleine Weldon-Linne
Verdicts
Case Name: Plaintiff v. Doctor and Hospital
Venue: Cook County, Illinois
Judge: Judge Robert Gordon
Date: November, 2004
Demand: $500,000.00
Verdict: Not Guilty
Summary: The plaintiff alleged that the surgeon and
primary care physician failed to diagnose breast cancer in a woman with breast implants.
The plaintiff was diagnosed with breast cancer and treated and was cancer free at
time of trial. The plaintiff is appealing the not guilty verdict.
Case Name: Plaintiff v. Dentist
Venue: Cook County, Illinois
Judge: Judge Hogan
Date: April 28, 2003 to May 7, 2003
Demand: $80,000.00
Verdict: $61,000.00 Guilty (Settled for $57,000.00 before post-trial motions)
Summary: Dental malpratice case involving allegations of ill fitting
crowns and decay under the crowns that were so painful that it ruined plaintiff's wedding
and resulted in extraction of teeth and required work done on teeth by subsequent dentist.
Case Name: Cromley v. Podiatrists
Venue: Cook County, Illinois
Judge: Judge Elrod
Date: August, 2000
Demand: $860,000.00
Verdict: Not Guilty
Summary: Plaintiff alleged lack of informed consent and negligent surgeries,
both feet on great toe and tailor bunionectomies. Plaintiff alleged constant pain,
inability to work full-time and decreased enjoyment of life.
Case Name: Roesler v. Emergency Medicine Physician
Venue: Lake County, Illinois
Judge: Judge Brady
Date: February, l998 (3 ½ Week Trial)
Demand: $1 million
Verdict: Not Guilty
Summary: Death of a four year old boy in emergency room. Defense alleged child
suffered from previously undetected fatal disease. Plaintiff claimed mismanagement in the
emergency room.
Case Name: Bangert v. Emergency Medicine Physician
Venue: Cook County, Illinois
Judge: Judge Burke
Date: l997
Demand: $8.3 million
Verdict: Not guilty
Summary: Death of seven month old infant from intussusception. Insured at
Hospital No. 1 transferred baby to Hospital No. 2 for diagnosis and treatment.
Case Name: Smith v. Trauma Surgeon
Venue: Cook County, Illinois
Judge: Judge Quinlan
Date: l996
Demand: $2 million against all defendants.
Verdict: Insured paid $400,000.00 in settlement before opening statements.
Co-defendant emergency physician also paid $400,000.00.
Summary: Death of a 48-year old man involved in a car accident and brought to
emergency room with undiagnosed transected aorta. Insured trauma surgeon was called from
emergency room, but did not come in to evaluate patient for several hours. By the time
insured arrived, dramatic life-saving measures were necessary, (chest opened in emergency
room), but plaintiff died.
Case Name: Smith v. Family Practice Physician
Venue: Cook County, Illinois
Judge: Judge Grazien
Date: l995
Demand: $6.7 million
Verdict: Jury deadlocked 9 to 2 with majority in favor of "not guilty"
verdict. "High/low" settlement agreement reached to avoid mistrial and retrial.
Summary: Death of a 60-year old woman with husband and adult children with
undiagnosed sarcoma in shoulder. Family practitioner did not order work up of shoulder
pain for 18 months. When plaintiff went to another physician, cancer was diagnosed in
advanced stage.
Case Name: Pratt v. Emergency Medicine Physician
Venue: Lake County, Illinois
Judge: Judge Hoogasian
Date: l994
Demand: $2.5 million
Verdict: Not guilty.
Summary: Medical malpractice case involving death of a 28-year old woman with a
three-year old child who was discharged from the emergency room with diagnosis of
bronchitis. She died of acute myocardial infarction that evening.
Case Name: Shy v. Cardiologist
Venue: Cook County, Illinois
Judge: Judge Quinlan
Date: l994
Demand: $20 million against all defendants.
Verdict: Settlement of $500,000.00 on behalf of insured after trial began.
$17 million verdict against remaining defendants.
Summary: "Locked in" quadriplegic 33-year old contractor who had
stroke in operating room during back disc surgery. Insured cardiologist cleared him for
surgery without treating symptoms of TIA (transient ischemic attack) and unmedicated
hypertension.
Case Name: Chrysler v. Family Practice Physician
Venue: Cook County, Illinois
Judge: Judge Durham
Date: l991
Demand: $2.2 million
Verdict: $21,000.00 (less than medical specials)
Summary: Medical malpractice case involving the wrongful death of a 55 year old
husband and father of adult children who died of pulmonary embolism after being diagnosed
and treated by oral anticoagulants and not I.V. heparin.
Case Name: Sottile v. Neurosurgeon
Venue: Cook County, Illinois
Judge: Judge Wolfson
Date: l991
Demand: $400,000.00
Verdict: Not guilty.
Summary: Medical malpractice case involving complications of carotid artery
surgery. Plaintiff claimed lack of informed consent. Surgery left plaintiff with permanent
numbness, dizziness and hearing loss.
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