June 10 2009
$6.5 Million Paid to Family in Medical Negligence Partial Settlement
COOK COUNTY, IL – David J. Pritchard and Patrick A. Salvi II of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard, P.C. announced a $6.5 million medical negligence partial settlement and was approved by the Honorable Judge St. Eve of the Northern District Illinois Federal Court on June 10th.
It is alleged that there was a failure to timely diagnose and treat a group beta strep infection in the newborn baby which developed into meningitis resulting in cerebral palsy. The obstetrician and pediatrician involved were employed by Erie Family Health Center which is federally funded clinic that must be sued in Federal Court under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The labor, delivery and newborn care occurred at Northwestern Memorial Hospital; and it was alleged that the nursing personnel failed to invoke the chain of command when the obstetrician and pediatrician failed to recognize continuing and increasing signs and symptoms of neonatal infection. Northwestern and its employees have now settled out of the case, and the case continues against the US Government.
