Heart Disease
Appellate Court Rules That $2.7 Million Heart Transplant Verdict Should Stand
Published in Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, July 13th, 2008
On June 25, 2008, the Illinois Appellate Court reversed a Cook County trial judge and reinstated a verdict for $2.7 million against Loyola University Medical Center. On December 12, 2005, a twelve person jury in Cook County, Illinois awarded $2,700,000.00 to the estate of a fifty-eight (58) year old man who died following an attempted heart transplant surgery at Loyola University Medical Center. The verdict was widely publicized in both the local and national legal and popular press. However on April 26, 2006, Circuit Judge Irwin Solganick, who presided during the trial, granted the hospital's motion to strike the verdict, finding that it was inconsistent with a contemporaneous verdict in...
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