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Brain Injury Lawsuits
 

• $4,000,000 Brain Injury-Pretrial Settlement (Illinois): Severe headaches should never be ignored. They can be signs of infection or something called a brain aneurysm (sometimes also called cerebral or intracranial aneurysm). A brain aneurysm is an abnormal bulging in one of the arteries of the brain. If you've ever blown up a long balloon, an aneurysm is like the bulge in the balloon when you first start to inflate it. This bulge is usually very thin, and susceptible to leaking or breaking. When a brain aneurysm leaks, it causes severe headaches. If a doctor ignores severe headaches, the leak can grow and cause profound brain injury. A doctor diagnoses a brain aneurysm by a test called an MRA, or magnetic resonance angiography, which takes a picture of the arteries in the brain. In this case, the patient came in with severe headaches, the doctor ordered an MRA, but the radiologist misread the MRA, which showed a very large and dangerous brain aneurysm. The brain aneurysm leaked and caused severe brain injury.

• $1,750,000 Wrongful Death-Pretrial Settlement (Illinois): This was another brain aneurysm case, except here, the doctor (radiologist) recognized the aneurysm, but failed to communicate his findings for several days. The brain aneurysm ruptured and the patient, an elderly man, died.

If you have suffered a serious injury caused by medical malpractice, or a loved one has been seriously injured or died, we invite you to contact our firm and talk to one of our physician attorneys about whether a lawsuit would protect your best interests.

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