Tragically, severe injuries can occur during pregnancy, labor, or shortly after birth.
Many parents face the challenge of providing for a child with special needs and seeking to secure the child’s future care and treatment. If medical error caused the child’s injury, a medical malpractice claim may be possible, to help ensure financial security for potentially staggering medical and financial costs. While most injuries or illnesses are usually not caused by medical treatment errors, others are linked closely with medical negligence or medical mistakes. Thus, it is necessary to take a close look, to determine whether a birth injury was caused by a physician or hospital mistake, or if the birth injury was something that simply could not be avoided.
Personal injury lawsuits in Illinois generally involve a person being physically or emotionally injured, or a person’s property being damaged. Illinois personal injury law allows people to be compensated for damages due to another person’s intentional actions, carelessness, negligence, or recklessness. Damages in Illinois personal injury cases may consist of payment for medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering and other losses. There is no magic formula as to what a case is worth and every case is different. In most cases the money paid out for a settlement comes from an insurance company. Over the past several years, the Illinois state legislature has passed several new laws that have had major effects on the rights and liabilities of both plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury actions.
