Medical Negligence
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 situations in which we have provided counsel are widely varied and include personal injury or 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.
■$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 filed 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.