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Surgical Errors That Should Never Happen: Understanding Illinois Never Event Claims Key Takeaways: A wrong site surgery never event claim in Illinois is a medical malpractice action arising when a surgeon operates on the wrong body part, wrong side, wrong patient, or performs the wrong procedure, errors generally considered highly […]

When a Hospital’s Own Decisions Put a Patient at Risk Key Takeaways: Negligent credentialing is a direct claim that an Illinois hospital acted unreasonably in granting or renewing a physician’s staff privileges when it knew or should have known the doctor was unqualified. The duty traces back to Darling v. […]

When a Missed Diagnosis Steals Time You Cannot Get Back Key Takeaways: The lost chance doctrine in Illinois medical malpractice may allow a patient or surviving family to seek recovery when a provider’s negligent care reduced the chance of survival or a better outcome, even if that chance was already […]

The Digital Paper Trail Behind Your Hospital Chart Key Takeaways: An EMR audit trail is the metadata layer inside an electronic medical record that logs which user accessed a chart, what action they took, and when, making it a potentially objective record of how care unfolded in an Illinois medical […]

In a left-turn collision, you may enter an intersection and suddenly be struck on the side of your car with enough force to spin it around, deploy the airbags, or push it into another lane. A normal drive can turn into an ambulance ride, broken bones, or spinal injuries along […]