$2.485 Million Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict
Ed Walsh and Brad Pollock secured a jury verdict of $2,485,000.00 in Cook County case 00L 10323. This verdict was $1,485,000.00 in excess of the Illinois State Medical Inter-Insurance Exchange Policy limit of insurance which indemnified the defendant doctor.
The insurer has paid its $1,000,000.00 policy limit to the Firm and its client and the Firm has filed a "Bad Faith" lawsuit against ISMIE in order to collect the full judgment amount on behalf of their client. The Bad Faith lawsuit is currently pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County.
Ed, Brad and the Firm were privileged to represent a wonderful 43 year old man who lost total hearing in his left ear and suffers from permanent imbalance as a result of negligently performed outpatient ear surgery.
Ed, Brad and the Firm were successful in accomplishing this outstanding result for several reasons. The firm has a staff of assistants and paralegals expert in the prosecution of medical negligence cases. Through detailed medical research, the Firm was able to retain the services and guidance of an extremely highly qualified ENT expert witness surgeon from the most premier ear clinic in the United States. The consultation, guidance and trial testimony of the expert ear surgeon was one of the significant reasons why this outstanding trial jury verdict was secured.
Additionally, all of the 104 trial exhibits were used and illustrated throughout the trial by way of a PowerPoint® computer graphics presentation. Similarly, Ed illustrated the significant trial exhibits and key jury instructions by way of a PowerPoint® presentation during his closing argument. Finally, all pretrial depositions and daily trial testimony were downloaded to the attorneys' notebook computers and immediately searchable using Summation® litigation support software.
