Medical Malpractice

When you seek medical treatment, you place your trust and your life in the hands of doctors, nurses, technicians and other health care professionals. And, you have the right to expect a certain standard of care.

While medical care in the U. S. is among the best found worldwide, sadly, mistakes happen. Medical errors may result in debilitating physical, conditions disability or illness arising from complications of medical treatment.

Examples of circumstance that lead to patient harm and subsequent medical malpractice suits include:

Misdiagnosis
Delayed diagnosis
Failure to diagnose
Surgical errors
Incorrect medication,
Wrong dosages of medication
Allergic reactions to medication
Anesthesia errors
Emergency room negligence

If you are seriously harmed or if a loved one dies due to negligence or wrongful conduct of doctors, nurses, technicians and other healthcare workers, a medical malpractice lawsuit may be an option to recover damages.

At the Chicago law firm of Ambrose & Associates, our attorneys have successfully handled a broad range of medical malpractice claims since 1959. We have represented injured clients and the families of patients who died in cases related to a wide range of medical specialties such as cardiology, obstetrics, gynecology, radiology, oncology, pediatrics, neurosurgery, orthopedics, plastic surgery and anesthesiology.

Not all medical errors or injuries have grounds for a medical malpractice claim. When you seek our advice and guidance, our lawyers will investigate the circumstances surrounding the harm you suffered and determine whether you have grounds for a lawsuit. Developing a substantive medical malpractice case is complex and time consuming, often taking years to resolve. Choosing an experienced medical malpractice lawyer to represent you is the first critical step in pursuing justice and recovering damages for the harm you suffered.

When you turn to Ambrose & Associates for legal help, our medical malpractice experience, combined with our attorneys' expertise in civil trial law, enables us to achieve positive results for you.

If you believe you have been harmed while receiving medical care or undergoing surgery, we invite you to call Ambrose & Associates at (312) 726-1470 or toll free at (866) 696-1381 or email us for a no cost, no obligation case evaluation. We will put our legal team to work for you.

How the attorneys at Ambrose & Associates have helped our clients:

$1,000,000.00 Verdict - A woman at Northwestern Memorial Hospital's chest x-ray was improperly read by a resident physician. Due to the resident physician's medical maplractice, a timely surgical consultation was not performed. Because a timely surgical consult was not done in a timely manner a terrible infection spread causing major organ failure and death.

$CONFIDENTIAL Settlement - A woman's infection was improperly treated by physicians and nurses at a Hospital. Due to this medical malpractice, the woman lost the vast majority of her fingers and toes to gangrene.

$2,300,000 Verdict - A man was paralyzed due to a doctor's failure to remove a disc fragment in his spine during a back operation. Prior to the medical malpractice trial, a settlement was reached with the hospital for an additional $500,000.00. The case went up to the Illinois Appellate Court on three separate occasions. One of those landmark decisions solidified the doctrine of apparent agency in medical malpractice cases against hospitals.

$1,500,000 Settlement - A wrongful death medical malpractice settlement resulted from a doctor's failure to diagnose cancer in a timely manner.