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A state appeals panel has upheld a $41 million medical malpractice verdict stemming from a stroke. Craig Pierce, then 64, suffered a cerebral artery stroke in early 2016. According to court records, OSF St. Francis Hospital admitted Pierce in February with pneumonia and sepsis. During his stay, Pierce suffered an acute kidney injury following a CT scan, which led to…

A Florida woman whose premature newborn son died in Florida after contracting an illness allegedly caused by consuming cow's milk-based infant formula, administered by medical staff in a Florida hospital can't use Cook County's famously plaintiff-friendly courts to sue Abbott Labs, the formula's Lake County-based manufacturer, a state appeals panel has ruled. In the decision, the appellate justices said they…

A Japanese automotive brakes maker can't escape becoming a target for asbestos lawsuits in Illinois courts, a state appeals panel has ruled. On Sept. 8, a three-justice panel of the Illinois Fifth District Appellate Court sided against manufacturer Japan Brake Industrial Company in its bid to exit a lawsuit brought by the family of plaintiff Donald R. Taylor over claims…

A Japanese brake manufacturer must face an Illinois lawsuit alleging that asbestos in its products caused a dealership worker’s son to develop fatal mesothelioma, an Illinois appeals court ruled. In Taylor v. Japan Brake Industrial Co. Ltd., the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District, on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling that Illinois courts have specific jurisdiction over Japan Brake,…

The estate of a Kanawha County kindergarten teacher has sued CAMC, several physicians, nurse anesthetists and health care staffing companies, alleging an unrecognized internal hemorrhage after hip surgery caused her death. Franklin Harman, administrator of the estate of his mother, Cynthia Ellen Harman, filed the medical malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit August 25 in Kanawha Circuit Court. In addition to…

A federal jury has sided with Mead Johnson & Co. in a high stakes trial, finding the company can't be held liable for the death of a premature infant, who allegedly became severely ill after the child was fed an Enfamil-brand cow's milk-based formula in the hospital a few weeks after birth. The trial, which was the first in Chicago…

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed and vacated in part a district court ruling granting qualified immunity to state correction officers accused of violating an inmate’s Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment during some transport rides. Appeals Court Judge Doris Pryor stated in vacating part of the lower court ruling that any reasonable jury could conclude that…