Attorney Representation in Chicago, Illinois Since 1993  

Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney

Birth Injury • Brain Injury • Wrongful Death •  Cerebral Palsy

Injury to a loved one caused by medical malpractice may be the most difficult personal injury you will ever face.   Whether in Yuma, Arizona, Chicago, Illinois or elsewhere, we seldom think about the possibility that taking our child to the doctor could end up causing our worst nightmare.  Instead, we look at medical providers as some of our most trusted allies. Thus, when a doctor or other practitioner commits medical malpractice and causes injury to someone we love, our entire faith in the profession can be shaken. That's why at Chicago-based Cirignani Heller & Harman LLP, we concentrate our legal practice solely on medical malpractice and that’s why we offer our services nationwide, including Yuma, Arizona and Atlanta, Georgia.

Integrity • Compassion • Tenacity

Money damages from a negligence or wrongful death lawsuit will never be enough to make up for the loss of a loved one or for injuries that leave you or a family member disabled for life. However, personal injury compensation can keep the physical and emotional tragedy from becoming a financial disaster as well. Our firm is committed to serving people in the Yuma community with integrity, compassion, and tenacity. We are dedicated to protecting our clients' best interests by upholding our own professional standards as we provide compassionate, persistent legal assistance to those who have been injured when doctors and other medical professionals did not uphold their medical standards.

Misdiagnosis • Overmedication • Surgical Mistakes

Physicians make mistakes: they get tired; they're too busy; they misdiagnose; they overmedicate. We think it is important that the healthcare profession be held accountable. Medical malpractice lawsuits are one way of ensuring that when a doctor, a nurse, or other medical caregiver, at a hospital, a clinic, or a nursing home, does cause someone harm, that harm is justly compensated. If you are dealing with loss or injury due to medical error, contact Cirignani Heller & Harman LLP., with a practice that is nationwide, including Yuma, Arizona, for a free analysis of your case by an attorney who is also a medical doctor and fully understands the standards by which medicine ought to be practiced.

Missed Diagnoses

Whether it be Yuma, Atlanta, or Chicago, by far and away, the most numerous of our medical malpractice cases arise out of incorrect or missed diagnoses :

• Cancer isn't discovered until it is in its later stages, beyond the time when it could be cured by surgery.
• Heart disease isn't recognized until a heart attack does irreparable damage.
• Nerve disorders that would have been susceptible to treatment cause irreversible harm before treatment is instituted.

Too often doctors rush and jump to conclusions and miss the chance to catch a disease or disorder before it is too late. If you or your family member has suffered because your doctor failed to diagnosis the true cause of your symptoms before it was too late, contact us  for a thorough review of the circumstances and a legal analysis of your case.

Surgical Errors • Anesthesia Errors • Medication Errors

Emergency room mistakes, operating room errors, recovery unit malpractice, all happen much too frequently.  While it is true that the work doctors, nurses, and other hospital, medical clinic, and nursing home staff members cane be heroic, it doesn’t mean they are excused when they fall short in other cases, when they don’t practice within the standard of care.  People have a right to have their healthcare be safe. When it isn't they have a right to recover damages from the ones accountable for the errors made.

Birth Injuries • Brain Injuries • Nerve Damage

Birth injuries, such as cerebral palsy (one third of cerebral palsy is caused by not enough oxygen getting to the baby during the labor process), and nerve damage, or Erb's palsy, (caused when the physician pulls on the baby's head while the shoulder is stuck in the birth canal) could have been prevented if the attending physician had followed well-known and accepted practices and procedures. Regrettably, many parents of children who have suffered birth injuries do not know that the injuries caused to their babies during birth could have been avoided. Because there are sometimes other causes for birth injuries, obstetricians may find it easy to cover up medical malpractice and fail to admit the possibility of their own errors.

Our long years of practice in this legal field, and the fact that three of our lawyers are also licensed medical practitioners, allow us to uncover mistakes even when the doctor and the insurance carrier may have attempted to hide them.

Free Case Evaluation by One of our Physician Lawyers

If you or one of your family members has sustained serious injuries caused by the negligence of a medical practitioner, please contact our office for a free consultation and analysis of your case by one of our attorneys who is also a licensed medical practitioner.
Our physician lawyers at Cirignani Heller & Harman LLP, offer their services across the nation, including in Yuma, Arizona, and throughout the Yuma County communities of San Luis, Somerton, Wellton, Dateland, Gadsden, Roll, and Tacna, AZ.

Our law offices are located at:

150 South Wacker Drive, Suite 2600
Chicago, Illinois 60606