{"id":346,"date":"2010-04-16T13:36:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T19:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2010-04-16T13:36:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T19:36:39","slug":"illinois-hospital-midwife-settle-cerebral-palsy-suit-for-9-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/illinois-hospital-midwife-settle-cerebral-palsy-suit-for-9-5-million.html","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Hospital, Midwife Settle Cerebral Palsy Suit For $9.5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>An Algonquin, Ill., family that charged that a hospital was to blame for its son being born with cerebral palsy has settled its malpractice suit for $9.5 million. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/2010\/04\/95m-settlement-in-case-of-boy-born-with-cerebal-palsy.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/2010\/04\/95m-settlement-in-case-of-boy-born-with-cerebal-palsy.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>A mediator said Thursday that an Elgin hospital, a nurse midwife and the nurse\u2019s employer all agreed to pay the settlement.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Plaintiff Helen O&#8217;Came arrived at Sherman Hospital on Oct. 26, 1996, in labor with her son, Patrick, according to a\u00a0statement from her attorneys Barry Chafetz, Margaret Power and Shawn Kasserman of Corboy &amp; Demetrio.<\/p>\r\n<p>When O\u2019Came started experiencing complications, she asked the nurse to summon a doctor. But the nurse failed to get a physician, the mother\u2019s attorneys allege.<\/p>\r\n<p>Retired Cook County Circuit Court Judge and mediator Daniel Localla agreed to the settlement Thursday.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Algonquin, Ill., family that charged that a hospital was to blame for its son being born with cerebral palsy has settled its malpractice suit for $9.5 million. http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/2010\/04\/95m-settlement-in-case-of-boy-born-with-cerebal-palsy.html A mediator said Thursday that an Elgin hospital, a nurse midwife and the nurse\u2019s employer all agreed to pay the settlement.\u00a0 Plaintiff Helen O&#8217;Came arrived at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,12,9,410,409],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cerebral-palsy","tag-cerebral-palsy-attorney","tag-cerebral-palsy-medical-malpractice","tag-helen-ocame","tag-sherman-hospital"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}