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Matthew D. Ports was recently elected to be a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He joins his fellow shareholder, Michael Gill, as a member in the premier national trial lawyer’s organization. Membership is by invitation only and requires the applicant to have tried a significant number of cases to verdict and to…

Receiving outpatient care is an incredibly common thing. Every year, around 80 percent of America’s adult population receives medical care in an outpatient setting, such as a doctor’s office. Given this, it is not at all surprising that a great many diagnoses are given in outpatient settings. This makes the conclusions of a recent…

Recently, in another state, a man has accused a doctor of having made a rather major mistake during a surgery. The man says that, in January 2013 at a hospital in New York, the doctor performed a surgery on him that was supposed to be an appendectomy. The man claims that the doctor made…

When helping to bring a new life into the world through the delivery process, it is vital that hospitals and their staff exercise the utmost care. Errors or mistakes made by Illinois hospitals or their staff members when providing delivery-related care can lead to a child starting off life with debilitating medical conditions that…

The results can be disastrous when a hospital or medical professionals act improperly when it comes to treating a patient’s medical condition; a patient can sometimes even lose their life as a result of such negligent conduct. A verdict was recently reached in a wrongful death case that involved alleged negligent treatment at an…

Congressional hearings are underway this week to investigate how long General Motors knew about the ignition switch problem before it initiated the first wave of recalls earlier this year. Documents obtained by media outlets reveal that GM learned of the defect as early as 2001, during the pre-production testing of the Saturn Ion. The following year,…

At health care facilities, such as hospitals and rehabilitation centers, nurses have a vital role in the care of patients. Thus, when nurses engage in negligent conduct when caring for patients or facilities fail to provide their nurses with proper training, patients can suffer greatly. Losses of life sometimes even occur as a result of…

Spinal cord injuries can alter a person’s life forever; they can sometimes cause a person to become paralyzed or to suffer other serious disabilities. One of the things that sometimes leads to a person suffering a disabling spinal cord injury is when a doctor makes a mistake when operating near a person’s spinal cord….

Recently, in another state, a verdict was reached in a wrongful death case involving a misdiagnosis. The case involved a man who died while he was sleeping in his home in August 2006. According to medical examiners, the man died of the heart ailment myocarditis. Not long before his death, the man had visited…

Last month, General Motors Corp. recalled more than 1,000,000 Chevrolet Cobalts and certain Pontiac and Saturn vehicles to repair an ignition switch problem. The defect can allow the key to slip from its “run” position under certain foreseeable operating conditions. This defect can cause an engine shutdown and loss of power steering, brakes, and…