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  • Chicago appeals court yanks $14 million award v. ISMIE, says insurer deserved 12 jurors, not six

    By Dan Churney |
    A Chicago appeals panel has pulled a $14.4 million jury award from the parents of a toddler, who died through medical malpractice, saying the obstetricians' insurer – Illinois' No. 1 malpractice provider – deserved 12 rather than six jurors, in a trial over accusations the insurer allegedly misled the doctors into going to trial in the underlying malpractice suit, instead of settling for the amount of their coverage, which left the doctors personally on the hook for more than $1 million.

  • Former IL Supreme Court Justice Stamos, author of Himmel decision, dies

    By The Cook County Record |
    John J. Stamos, a former Illinois Supreme Court justice and Cook County State’s Attorney who authored the state high court’s landmark decision affirming attorneys are required to report misconduct by other lawyers, has died, the Illinois Supreme Court announced Monday.

  • Chicago surgery center OK'd to sue malpractice insurer for refusing settlement, costing $4 million

    By Dana Herra |
    The 900 North Michigan Surgical Center can proceed in its bad faith lawsuit against its malpractice insurers, after a Chicago federal judge said there was sufficient evidence to believe the medical practice has a legal leg to stand on in contending its insurers needlessly cost the practice $4 million by deciding to take a malpractice case to trial and refuse a “sympathetic” plaintiff’s offer to settle the matter for $1 million.

  • Jury orders ISMIE to pay $14.3 million for 'bad faith' in representing doctors sued for child's death

    By Jonathan Bilyk |
    A jury has awarded more than $14.3 million to the parents of a child who died after being born with severe brain damage, finding medical malpractice insurer ISMIE acted in bad faith in allegedly misleading doctors the family had sued, leaving the doctors to fill a coverage gap of more than $1 million following a jury verdict against them – a coverage gap the doctors said they were led to believe would not exist.