Surgical mistakes can cost patients their lives or leave them permanently disabled or disfigured.

Surgical Errors

Compensation for Errors Made During Surgery

At Walsh, Knippen, Knight & Pollock, Chartered, our medical malpractice attorneys have an excellent record of obtaining compensation for clients injured by errors made during surgery. For example:

$7.3 million for a client left with significant facial paralysis and disfigurement after an ENT surgeon's mistakes in the removal of a benign facial tumor.
$2.485 million for a client who suffered a total loss of hearing in one ear after a negligently performed outpatient ear surgery.
$1.55 million for a 70-year-old woman who suffered a neurological stroke as a result of errors made during ankle surgery at Elmhurst Hospital.

Our lawyers represent clients who have been injured because of a broad range of errors made during surgery, including:

Leaving instruments or sponges behind
Severing arteries
Perforating organs
Cutting nerves/causing paralysis
Operating on the wrong body part
Failure to stop bleeding into the pericardium during heart surgery
Anesthesia errors
Plastic surgery errors
Laparoscopic surgery errors
Spinal surgery errors
Cataract surgery errors
Colonoscopy errors
Failure to diagnose and treat post-operative complications

Trial Lawyers Who Get Results

If our opponents do not agree to a reasonable settlement, we will take the case to a trial, where we have had excellent results. In fact, in a three-year period, attorney Ed Walsh won three multimillion dollar medical malpractice verdicts in excess of available insurance.

To arrange a free consultation, please contact our law firm. Remember, you will pay no attorney fees unless we obtain financial compensation in your surgical malpractice claim.

Anderson v. Thompson, MD Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.5 Million Settlement.

Doe v. SuperFlow Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $5.25 Million Settlement

Cann v. Life Products, Inc., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $10 Million Jury Verdict

Bechtol v. Campbell, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $7.3 Million Jury Verdict

Liporini v. Westlake Hospital, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $6.1 Million Award

Kilgore v. Heggen, Circuit Court of Will County, Illinois $5.7 Million Award

LoCoco v. Garbowski, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.6 Million Jury Verdict

Knauerhaze v. Allen, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.485 Million Jury Verdict

Krywokulski v. Wilbur, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.2 Million Award

Garcia v. Horwitz, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.775 Million Award

Compton v. Ubilluz, M.D. and Nour, M.D., Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $1.73 Million Jury Verdict

Enyart v. Rahn, MD, Circuit Court of DuPage Country, Illinois $1.550 Million Settlement

Janetis v. Christensen, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.1 Million Award

Licastro v. Rowley, M.D., Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $710,000 Award

Murray v. R. A. Bright Construction Company, Circuit Court of Will County, Illinois $1.9 Million Award

Out of State Automobile Accident - Death, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.1 Million Award

Bus/Automobile Collision - Fracture & Hip Dislocation, Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $800,000 Award

Automobile/Van Collision - Herniated Disc, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $480,000 Award

Car/Truck Collision - Fractures, Circuit Court of Kane County, Illinois $420,000 Award

Truck/Automobile Collision - Spleen Injury, Circuit Court of Dupage County, Illinois $245,000 Award

Callahan v. Bernz-O-Matic, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.7425 Million Award

Rader v. City of Chicago, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.9 Million Award

Personal Injury : Boat : Leg Injury, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.5 Million Award

Wrongful Adoption, Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $780,000 Settlement

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Walsh, Knippen, Knight & Pollock, Chartered
2150 Manchester Road, Suite 200
Wheaton, IL 60187
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Phone: 630-462-1980
Facsimile: 630-462-1984

From our law offices in Wheaton, Illinois, the personal injury, medical malpractice and business litigation attorneys at Walsh, Knippen, Knight & Pollock, Chartered, represent clients throughout Chicagoland and west Chicago. Many clients come to us from Naperville, Bolingbrook, Plano, Yorkville, Schaumburg, Arlington Heights, Romeoville, Rockford, Aurora, Batavia, Evanston, Winnetka, Waukegan, Lake Forest, Barrington Hills, DeKalb, Freeport, Elgin, Springfield, Elmhurst, DuPage County, Cook County, Kane County, Will County, Kendall County, IL.