Practice Areas

Medical Malpractice

Chicago, Illinois Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Failure to Diagnose • Surgery Errors • Prescription Errors

Medical malpractice or medical negligence takes many forms. But the common thread is that the people trusted to care for the patient are responsible for serious harm that could have been avoided. Contact the Chicago medical malpractice lawyers of Seidman Law Offices for a free evaluation of your claim.

Our lawyers have been very successful at holding doctors, nurses, hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacists, and other health care providers accountable for medical mistakes or negligent care. We represent clients throughout the greater Chicago, Illinois area, including Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, and Will counties.

Proven Results in Medical Malpractice Claims

Steve Seidman has practiced law since 1981, and opened a solo practice 20 years ago. With associate Christopher Freeman, the Seidman Law Offices has obtained many large settlements and verdicts in medical malpractice cases. Our success stories include a $5 million settlement for the benefit of the family of a permanently injured child, and settlements of $1.9 million and $1.6 million in wrongful deaths stemming from malpractice.

We handle all types of medical malpractice claims:

• Failure to diagnose – Emergency room staff or family doctors overlook telltale signs of cancer or other issues, or fail to follow up on patient complaints.

• Birth injuries – Infants die or suffer severe brain injury due to lack of oxygen if the physician fails to order a Caesarian birth (C-section) in time, or due to insufficient monitoring of the fetus or newborn. Cerebral palsy and erb’s palsy are lifelong disabilities resulting from birth injury.

• Surgery errors – Surgeons operate on the wrong leg or wrong disc, or accidentally sever an artery or nerve, causing paralysis, disability, life-threatening injury, or death.

• Prescription errors – Doctors order the wrong medication, or more commonly the pharmacist fills the prescription improperly, causing injury.

• Nursing home negligence – Residents of nursing homes are injured in falls due to lack of restraints or proper support, or patients suffer injury or death through neglect or intentional acts.

Expert Testimony – We Get the Best

Proving medical malpractice or medical negligence requires very good experts who can testify that the hospital or physician failed to provide the standard of care or made a mistake that caused the injury. Seidman Law Offices spares no expense in proving liability on the part of the care providers. If you believe a family member’s serious injury or death was the result of negligence, contact our Chicago medical malpractice attorneys for a free case evaluation.