A judgment in the amount of $14.3 million was rendered in a medical malpractice lawsuit arising out of a case in which a baby suffered severe brain damage at birth. A jury in Cook County, Chicago, determined that ISMIE Mutual Insurance, Illinois\u2019 largest insurance company, acted in \u201cbad faith\u201d when it failed to make a settlement offer of $5 million, knowing that a jury could award damages in excess of that amount. <\/p>\n
The plaintiffs, Alizabeth and Elvin Hana, received an award of $1.35 million in compensatory damages because their daughter was born with a brain injury, the cause of which was oxygen deprivation. She died three years later. <\/p>\n
For the last 10 years, ISMIE has been embroiled in 25 cases concerning bad faith. The Hanas filed a lawsuit naming their obstetricians, emergency room physicians and Rush North Shore Hospital as defendants. They reached a settlement in the amount of $1.5 million (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A judgment in the amount of $14.3 million was rendered in a medical malpractice lawsuit arising out of a case in which a baby suffered severe brain damage at birth. A jury in Cook County, Chicago, determined that ISMIE Mutual…<\/span><\/p>\n