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A lawsuit has been initiated by a man who is suing for alleged mistreatment by a physician in an Illinois healthcare center.

On August 10th, Lawrence Natonski filed a lawsuit in the Cook County Circuit Court naming Dr. Tahir Rohail, M.D., Premier Internal Medicine Group, S.C., and LaGrange Skilled Nursing Facility LLC, doing business as the Grove of LaGrange Park as defendants. The plaintiff is citing negligence in the case.

According to documents filed in connection to the claim, Natonski alleges that he suffered medical malpractice while he was in the care of Dr. Rohail and the other defendants named in the case. Natonski said that he was wrongfully treated on August 13th, 2013 for a sacral wound that later developed into decubitus ulcers, causing him pain and suffering and surgical intervention and reconstruction as a result.

A patient from Cook County has brought suit against a hospital and health care professionals alleging that he was mistreated while in their care.

Luis Gonzalez filed a lawsuit on August 17th in Cook County Circuit Court against Ingalls Memorial Hospital and Health Systems. Also named as defendants in the case are Dr. Bimal Shah and Harvey Anesthesiologists. Gonzalez’ suit is alleging both negligence and medical malpractice.

According to documents filed with the Court, on August 14, 2013, Gonzalez suffered medical malpractice while he was in the care of Dr. Shah and others at Ingalls Memorial Hospital. Gonzalez alleges that he became unresponsive and went into respiratory arrest after having a decompression laminectomy and excision of a herniated disc.

A Cook County woman has initiated a lawsuit against St. Joseph Hospital in connection with the alleged mistreatment and wrongful death of her friend.

On August 17th, independent administrator for the estate of Dorlas Culbertson (deceased), Tressia Permoda, filed a malpractice and wrongful death of Culbertson in Cook County Circuit Court. The lawsuit names St. Joseph Healthcare Centers and Hospitals, Dr. Maria A. Osipova, Dr. Marc Adajar, and S.T. Surgical Consultants doing business as Precision Surgical Group as defendants. The suit alleges medical negligence.

The lawsuit alleges that St. Joseph Healthcare Centers and Hospitals and the aforementioned doctors and healthcare organizations, practiced careless judgment while caring for Dorlas Culbertson on two different occasions. The alleged occasions were on August 29th – September 3rd, 2013; and September 4-8, also in 2013 Culbertson developed a small bowel obstruction in addition to an existing small bowel obstruction. These obstructions, according to the lawsuit, ultimately led to her death on September 8, 2013.

A Las Vegas physician is facing a second lawsuit of medical malpractice this year.

Arlene Muller, a widow, has filed a malpractice suit against urologist Dr. Michael Kaplan in Clark County District Court on July 24th. Muller’s suit comes approximately five months after Connie Mulick filed a malpractice lawsuit against Kaplan. Both women’s husbands died last year after having been treated by Kaplan.

Muller’s lawsuit alleges that Kaplan caused her husband John’s death when he was under the urologist’s care. Muller alleges that Kaplan “failed to evaluate Mr. Muller for an extended period of time during which the patient had blood in his urine” and “failed to perform a biopsy on Mr. Muller’s bladder when the CT scan report indicated the highly probable presence of cancer.”

Former Cal football safety Brandon Hicks has initiated a lawsuit against UC Berkeley and three of its regents alleging malpractice involving the prevention and treatment of concussions.

Hicks, who played for Cal from 2004 through 2008, suffered multiple concussions. The lawsuit alleges that the university failed to inform players of the long-term neurological diseases that have been linked to concussion and head injuries in players of sports such as football.

Hicks’ attorneys indicate that since, “The university is the players’ caretaker; we think it would be fair for them to at least inform the players what they’re getting themselves into.”

An Upper Darby man has been awarded nearly $12 million in a civil lawsuit by a jury in connection to the treatment he received at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in 2011 which left him paralyzed from the chest down.

The jury trial lasted for nearly two weeks before Common Pleas Judge Spiros Angelo. The jury deliberated for about four hours after final arguments were given before they returned their verdict. The jury awarded the plaintiff, Kenneth Del Grosso more than $9 million for past and future medical expenses, an additional $2.3 million in noneconomic losses and nearly $500,000 in lost earnings. The jury also awarded Del Grosso’s wife $500,000 for loss of consortium.

According to court documents, the plaintiff, Del Grosso, at age 53 years, visited the Delco Memorial emergency room on June 17, 2011, complaining of neck pain and tingling in his left arm.

A jury has awarded a Toledo woman and her husband $10.9 million in their lawsuit against a Maumee OB-GYN practice because of negligence that caused the woman to suffer a stroke.

According to court documents, the plaintiffs, Al and Jennifer Billups brought a malpractice lawsuit against Maumee OB-GYN Associates, part of ProMedica Central Physicians LLC.

The lawsuit alleged that Dr. Dayna Mohammadione, an on-call physican at the practice, negligently responded to her emergency call on March 21, 2012. Billups,’ primary physician was not on call at the time of an incident when the plaintiff was suffering pain. Mrs. Billups alleges that Dr. Mohammadione failed to take a sufficient history and did not send her to the hospital for immediate treatment which resulted in Billups suffering a stroke caused by gestational hypertension.

Defendants in a malpractice lawsuit, Anderson Hospital and two of its doctors, have denied any liability after a patient alleged they failed  to catch preliminary symptoms that would have predicted an eminent stroke.

The plaintiff, Mike L. Fuller filed suit against Southwestern Illinois Health Facilities Inc., doing business as Anderson Hospital Urgent Care, Dr. Laurence Yung, Dr. Haresh Motwani and Metro East Healthcare Ltd. on May 8th.

In the legal documents filed, the plaintiff alleges that he came under the care of Anderson Hospital and Dr. Yung on May 13, 2013. The plaintiff alleges that the defendants did carelessly and negligently fail to recheck his blood pressure before his being discharged from their care. The plaintiff also alleges that the defendants failed to recommend that he have a follow up appointment.

A former Dallas neurosurgeon that has lost his license to practice medicine in 2013 has been indicted on multiple charges of assault relating to his treatment of patients and is facing prison time. He is currently being held at the Dallas County Jail on a bond of over $600,000.

According to Texas state regulators, the actions of Dr. Christopher Duntsch have led to the deaths of two patients and left other patients with injuries that have left them disabled. Duntsch’s case is what many believe to be one of the worst cases in malpractice law in Texas in recent history.

Indictments filed against Duntsch say that the physician’s hands were equivalent to a deadly weapon because he used them improperly to insert medical devices and screws into patients that were meant to alleviate their nerve and other pain. Instead, Duntsch operated on the wrong area of a patient’s body, damaging nerves and leaving them with chronic pain so severe that in the case of one of his patients, she is dependent on a wheelchair.

Tulane University Hospital and doctors are being sued by a woman who claiming breaches of the standard of care in her husband’s treatment that contributed to his death.

According to court documents, Courtney Boudreaux Strickland has individually and on behalf of her minor children and her deceased husband filed suit against Dr. Benjamin Lee, Dr. Phillip J. Dorsey, Jr. And the University Healthcare System D/B/A Tulane University Hospital and Clinic in the Orleans Parish First Civil District Court.

The plaintiff alleges that her husband was admitted to Thibodaux Regional Medical Center on September14, 2011 and diagnosed with kidney stones. During his diagnostic workup, he was found to have a right adrenal tumor of 5 cm and was referred to Tulane Medical Center. A right adrenalectomy was performed on October 12, 2011 at the facility and her husband was discharged three days later on October15, 2011. Her husband died later that month on October 20, 2011.