Hickey, Melia & Associates, Chartered
Trial Experience
Perhaps one of the best judges of results are the malpractice insurers whose funds are "at risk" during the pendency of litigation. The Firm has been retained by some of the best known medical insurers in Illinois, including ISMIE, The Doctor's Company, CAN, AIG, MMI and Frontier. Specific requests for the Firm are frequently made by physicians for whom the Firm has provided a successful defense in the past.

Estate of Mazan: Death of a 27 year old by suicide. Not guilty.

Chamberlain: Death of a 14 year old child secondary to cerebral hemorrhage.
Case dismissed after 3 weeks of trial.

McCollam: Alleged failure to restrain patient with a history of seizures leading to a fall and compression fracture of L1 with permanent disability. Not guilty.

Krestan: Brain damaged baby allegedly due to intrauterine injury with subsequent development of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Not guilty for client.

Carpenter: Alleged failure to diagnose and treat post-operative infection in a total right knee replacement for a 56 year old woman. Not guilty for client.

Morgan: Alleged failure to treat properly open comminuted fracture of right tibia and fibula. Not guilty for client.

Hill: Death of 39 year old secondary to alleged failure to timely evaluate echocardiagram suspicious of thrombus. Client dismissed while jury deliberated.

Cook: Alleged failure to monitor patient subsequent to administration of lumbar block with patient falling and fracturing femur. Dismissal of client during trial.

Buford: Loss of sight subsequent to client's performance of cataract extraction and placement of intraocular lens. Not guilty.

Montanez: Alleged negligence in severance of vas deferens in hernia repair. Dismissal of client during trial.

Brady: Plaintiff claimed that client failed to timely diagnose and treat decendent's metastasis of lung cancer to brain. Not guilty.

Tanzillo: Plaintiff claimed that laser surgery caused the plaintiff's loss of ision in his left eye. Not guilty.

Lynch: Plaintiff admitted to emergency department with chest pain and was ordered to a monitored bed, but none available. Plaintiff went into cardiac arrest, sustained brain damage and died after 18 months. Not guilty.

Serpico: Brain injured infant following fetal distress.

Clesielczyk: Patient went into cardiac arrest and died immediately after hip replacement due to lacerated common femoral vein. Not guilty for anesthesiologist client.

Estate of Auld: 80 year old with Alzheimer's disease was brought to emergency department after a fall at home. Plaintiff suffered cardiac arrest with autopsy revealing 9th posterior rib displaced into pleural cavity. Not guilty.

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