ER Malpractice Case Totals 3 Settlements, $10.9 Million
From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
A suburban hospital has agreed to a $7.5 million settlement with the family of a boy who at age 2 suffered permanent brain damage while awaiting treatment for bacterial meningitis.
The settlement brings the family’s total to $10.9 million following two earlier settlements with other defendants.
In December 2008, Wendy Warmowski called her 2-year-old son’s pediatrician, then took her son to the emergency room at Sherman Hospital in Elgin.
At the hospital, triage staff quickly noticed symptoms of meningitis, said Warmowski’s attorney, William A. Cirignani of Cirignani, Heller & Harman LLP.
“What they didn’t do is treat it,” Cirignani said.
He described the next few hours as a “cascade of errors” before doctors provided the boy with antibiotics to treat his condition.
In her complaint first filed in 2010, Warmowski alleged the ER nurse did not act quickly to get a doctor.
Cirignani said it was almost two hours before the doctor came to treat the boy, while two doctors in the ER at the time were seeing patients with lower acuity levels.
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From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
A suburban hospital has agreed to a $7.5 million settlement with the family of a boy who at age 2 suffered permanent brain damage while awaiting treatment for bacterial meningitis.
The settlement brings the family’s total to $10.9 million following two earlier settlements with other defendants.
In December 2008, Wendy Warmowski called her 2-year-old son’s pediatrician, then took her son to the emergency room at Sherman Hospital in Elgin.
At the hospital, triage staff quickly noticed symptoms of meningitis, said Warmowski’s attorney, William A. Cirignani of Cirignani, Heller & Harman LLP.
“What they didn’t do is treat it,” Cirignani said.
He described the next few hours as a “cascade of errors” before doctors provided the boy with antibiotics to treat his condition.
In her complaint first filed in 2010, Warmowski alleged the ER nurse did not act quickly to get a doctor.
Cirignani said it was almost two hours before the doctor came to treat the boy, while two doctors in the ER at the time were seeing patients with lower acuity levels.
Read more in our daily News Update...