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IL Supreme Court: Jury instructions don't trigger new medmal trial for family of woman who died at Mercy Hospital

By Dan Churney | Monday, Dec 6, 2021 @ 5:20pm

The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled a jury in a Cook County medical malpractice case, did not need proposed instructions on plaintiff's loss of chance, saying the instruction the judge did give on proximate cause was sufficient.
Ex-girlfriend, mother of son of Bears legend Urlacher files $125M defamation suit over ex-husband's death

By Scott Holland | Friday, Jan 19, 2018 @ 3:34pm

The ex-girlfriend of Chicago Bears legend Brian Urlacher is seeking $125 million in a defamation lawsuit filed Jan. 12 in Cook County Circuit Court.
Doctor waited too long to sue IL, Cook County officials he said wrongly yanked his license over patient death, judge says

By Dan Churney | Monday, Mar 28, 2016 @ 12:46pm

A doctor’s federal lawsuit against Cook County and state medical authorities, which contends they conspired to wrongly yank his medical license almost 20 years ago for allegedly killing a terminally ill patient, has been dismissed, because it was filed years too late and some of its claims belong in state court.