Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Rapoport Law Offices, P.C. represents individuals injured or families of those who have died as a result of medical malpractice or medical negligence. The medical malpractice situations in which our lawyers have provided counsel are widely varied and include personal injury and wrongful death as a result of the misdiagnosis of a condition or drug interaction, delayed diagnoses, birth injury and birth trauma, botched surgeries or unnecessary surgeries, incorrectly filled pharmaceutical prescriptions, and inattentive care.

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Representative Medical Negligence and Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Handled by the Attorneys at Rapoport Law Offices: 

■$9.858 million verdict against an osteopathic medical school for injuries suffered by a student after an unsupervised medical student manipulated her neck, injuring her long thoracic nerve. As a result of her injury she had two shoulder surgeries, developed a chronic pain syndrome, and had to withdraw from medical school.

■$5.6 million settlement on behalf of a baby who suffered brain injuries at birth as a result of 
negligence in the labor and delivery room.

■ $5.5 million settlement in contested case involving delayed diagnosis and treatment of
Reyes Syndrome in a child, resulting in brain damage.

■ $3.1 million verdict in delayed diagnosis of breast cancer case.

■ $3.1 million settlement in medical malpractice case involving delayed diagnosis of an
aortic aneurysm.

■ $2.9 million settlement for wrongful death of a baby as a result of brain injuries.

■ $2.7 million settlement for a partial quadriplegic in a medical malpractice case arising
from a botched surgery by a neurosurgeon.

■ $2.625 million settlement reached in wrongful death case resulting from undiagnosed   
subarachnoid hemorrhage.

■ $2 million settlement in a medical malpractice case as a result of a delayed
aortic aneurysm diagnosis.

■ $1.75 million for failure to properly diagnose and treat compartment syndrome.

■ $1.7 million settlement in a case involving a severe birth injury and subsequent
death of a baby in Decatur, Illinois.

■ $1.45 million settlement for the family of a woman who died after suffering a pulmonary
embolism at Evanston Hospital.

■ $1.35 million for client who underwent unnecessary surgery as a result of a
pathology mix up following a breast biopsy at an Illinois Hospital.

■ Rapoport Law Offices has filed lawsuits on behalf of six individuals who became violently ill as a result of using contaminated heparin and saline flush syringes. The tainted syringes were manufactured in Chicago by AM2 PAT.

■ $1.35 million for client who underwent unnecessary surgery as a result of a
pathology mix up following a breast biopsy at an Illinois Hospital.

■ Rapoport Law Offices, P.C. filed a lawsuit against Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center for dropping its client. The plaintiff was admitted to the facility and was determined to be at a high risk of falls. The staff dropped the plaintiff while assisting her from her wheelchair into bed, causing her to sustain a right femoral neck fracture resulting in multiple surgeries and severe permanent injuries.

■ The personal injury attorneys at Rapoport Law Offices, P.C. are prosecuting Physicians Immediate Care and numerous physicians for their roles in the failing to properly read the plaintiff’s x-ray films and diagnosis his condition. The plaintiff, age 40, presented to Physicians Immediate Care after falling approximately 15 feet off a roof. X-rays taken at the time, and on subsequent visits, showed a fractured calcaneus in his right foot, but for months the plaintiff was misdiagnosed and treated for a sprained ankle. This misdiagnosis led to serious complications and surgery.

■ Rapoport Law Offices, P.C., has filed a lawsuit against a physician and Walgreens for the negligent misfiling and/or ordering of a prescription. While pregnant with her second child, the plaintiff’s mother required thyroid medication. It was the physician’s intention to prescribe the medication at a dosage of 150mcg, unfortunately, the medication she received from the Walgreens pharmacy was at a dosage of 50mcg, one-third of the intended dose. This error resulted in permanent injuries to her then unborn son.