CASE REPORT
(14 S/1) MEDICAL MALPRACTICE--DEATH AFTER HERNIA SURGERY- -DEKALB COUNTY HIGH (12O) Estate of Gloria J. Ormond, deceased v Kishwaukee Community Hospital, Anes- thesia Associates Ltd., DeKalb Clinic Chartered 10L-113 Tried Sep. 8-19, 2014 VERDICT: $4,300,000 v Kishwaukee Community Hospital and Anesthesia Associates Ltd. ($3,000,000 loss of society and grief/sorrow; $1,300,000 con- scious pain & suffering); Not Guilty v DeKalb Clinic. Special Interrogatory: Was the sole proximate cause of Ms. Ormond’s death something other than the con- duct of the defendants? “No.”
David E. Rapoport David Rapoport is the President and Found - ing Shareholder of Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop, PC. He has 43 years of plain - tiffs’ personal injury and wrongful death trial experience. David is board certified* in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Tri - al Advocacy and Medical Malpractice by the American Board of Professional Liability At - torneys. A long-time ABOTA member, David is recognized by Best Lawyers® and Mar - tindale Hubbell rates him AV Preeminent®. David has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer® every year since the inception of Illinois’ Super Lawyers program. Besides handling medical malpractice and other types of personal injury trials and ap - peals, David has 35 years of commercial air disaster and general aviation litigation and trial experience. In this part of his practice David has represented airline passengers, pilots, flight attendants, and their families in the courts of 14 states and served on court appointed Plaintiffs’ Steering Committees in five major air disaster lawsuits. * Board certification is not required to practice law in Illinois, and the Illinois Supreme Court does not recognize specialties in the practice of law.
JUDGE : William P. Brady (IL, De Kalb 23rd Jud Cir)
PLTF ATTY(S): David E. Rapoport, Joshua L. Weisberg of Rapoport Law Offices (Chicago, IL) DEMAND : $1,250,000 withdrawn ASKED: $7,620,000 DEFT ATTY(S): Kevin J. Vedrine, Barbara M. Prohaska of Cunningham, Meyer & Vedrine (Chicago, IL) for Kishwaukee Community Hospital (Self-Insured); Robert H. Smith, Stuart L. Berman of Lowis & Gellen (Chicago, IL) for Anesthe- sia Associates Ltd. (Doctor’s Company) ; Jerrod L. Barenbaum, Kelly J. Epper- son of Hinshaw & Culbertson (Rockford, IL) for DeKalb Clinic Chartered (ISMIE) OFFER: $1,000,000 total PLTF EXPERT(S) : Dr. Robert L. Bell of Summit Medical Group, One Diamond Hill Road, Bensley Pavilion, 4th floor, Berkeley Heights, NJ (908-277-8950) (General Surgeon) Dr. Lars Helgeson of Yale University, 789 Howard Ave., New Haven, CT (203-785-2802) (Anesthesiologist) Janet Robol, R.N., 133 Jefferson St., Wood Ridge, NJ (201-707-4261) (Nursing) Dr. Ronald Sacher (Hematologist) DEFT EXPERT(S) : Catherine Stull, R.N. of Hines VA Hospital, 5000 S. 5th Ave., Hines, IL (708-202-8387) (Nursing) for Kishwaukee Community Hospital Dr. William G. Soden (Anesthesiologist) for Anesthesia Associates Ltd. Dr. Mi- chael Ujiki of North Shore Medical Group, 1000 Central St., #800, Evanston, IL (847-570-1700) (General Surgeon) for DeKalb Clinic Chartered On October 18, 2010, Gloria Ormond underwent surgery to repair a hiatal her- nia at Kishwaukee Community Hospital. The surgery appeared to be success- ful and she was transferred to the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) recovery room, where her blood pressure dropped and she became unresponsive ap- proximately 2.5 hours later. A code blue was called, Gloria was resuscitated, and she was then taken back to surgery. An exploratory laparotomy revealed a massive amount of intra-abdominal blood had accumulated due to bleeding from a damaged gastric artery, which was repaired. However, Gloria F-57 never regained consciousness, and was pronounced dead at 1:29 a.m. on October 19, 2010. She was survived by two adult children. The estate argued the defts, including the hospital’s nurses, the anesthesiologist employed by deft Anes- thesia Associates, and the surgeon employed by deft DeKalb Clinic, all failed to properly monitor and assess Gloria’s postop condition in the recovery room, and the surgeon negligently left the hospital one hour after the hernia repair surgery, causing a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of her internal bleeding
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