St. Clair County Circuit Judge Heinz Rudolf granted a physician’s motion to dismiss a medical malpractice suit alleging a patient died following a routine colonoscopy.
BENTON — A patient is suing the U.S. government for $5 million, claiming an injury after having blood drawn at the Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation, a federal government agency.
BENTON — The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois has granted summary judgment to the federal government in a woman's medical negligence lawsuit involving a robot-assisted hysterectomy.
EAST ST. LOUIS – A Carbondale hospital seeks to dismiss a former nurse’s lawsuit alleging she was terminated after receiving breast reconstruction surgery elsewhere.
EAST ST. LOUIS — A U.S. district judge in East St. Louis ordered that parties in a more than $29 million medical malpractice case involving a 36-year-old man who suffered severe kidney damage due to alleged negligence to submit calculations and proposed judgments to the court.
Notice of impending dismissal was given in a nurse’s discrimination suit alleging she was wrongfully terminated after she took leave for breast reconstruction surgery following breast cancer.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel on Tuesday awarded a plaintiff in a medical malpractice suit $29.6 million in damages following a bench trial that took place in federal court in East St. Louis in October.
EAST ST. LOUIS — A nurse is suing Southern Illinois Healthcare Enterprises Inc., citing alleged age discrimination and violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Carbondale attorney Carey C. Gill, 40, of Carterville has been appointed an at large circuit judge in the First Judicial Circuit, the Illinois Supreme Court announced Jan. 26.
BELLEVILLE – The parents of a baby who was pronounced dead shortly after a Cesarean delivery are suing a hospital and other health-care providers on counts of wrongful death and survival action, among others.
A woman’s medical malpractice lawsuit alleging an Illinois doctor failed to diagnose and treat her diabetes in a timely manner has been removed to federal court.
A Madison County woman is suing an Illinois doctor for failing to diagnose and treat her diabetes in a timely manner. Sherri Johnson filed a lawsuit June 5 in the Madison County Circuit Court against Jowe Y.
Selected by American Lawyer Media based on Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings, eight Sandberg Phoenix attorneys have been named "Top Rated Lawyers" in Healthcare Law for 2013 and will be featured in the November issue of The American Lawyer & Corporate Counsel magazine.
A Madison County woman had to endure multiple surgeries after doctors left an eight-inch detached bone fragment in her back, according to a recently filed lawsuit.
