Medical Malpractice

Putting you on the road to recovery

The lawyers of Phillips Law Offices have been assisting the victims and their families of medical malpractice for over 65 years. Our job is to get you the compensation you deserve. Yours is to get healthy and allow us to assist you on your road to financial recovery.

How common is medical malpractice?

Published studies indicate that medical malpractice errors are responsible for 98,000 wrongful deaths each year. More people die from medical mistakes than from all car accident deaths. In addition, medical malpractice mistakes involving medication errors cause injuries to over 1.3 million persons a year.

Let Phillips Law Offices investigate your potential claim.

Do you have a case?

Medical malpractice law defines negligent medical conduct as the doing or the failure to do something that a reasonably careful doctor or other healthcare professional in that field would or would not do under the same or similar circumstances.

Be aware that not all bad outcomes of medical procedures are subject to litigation. A skilled attorney can determine if you are entitled to compensation and advise you on the best way to proceed.

Our attorneys are experienced in handling cases in the following areas of medical malpractice—

Physician malpractice
Failure to diagnose
Surgical error
Birth injuries
Misdiagnosis
Dental malpractice

Hospital negligence
Emergency room error
Lab error
Test results error
Drug errors
Pharmaceutical injuries

Whether your doctor failed to diagnose a medical condition, caused injury during surgery, or made your condition worse by failing to treat you properly or in a timely manner, we can assist you and your family in recovering the fully-valued compensation to which you are entitled.

Our attorneys are recognized leaders in medical malpractice law

As the co-chairman of the Medical Negligence Committee of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association for multiple terms, as well as a leading lawyer in medical negligence as recognized by a statewide survey of lawyers, Stephen Phillips has been intimately involved with working through these issues in the profession and for plaintiffs.

Medical negligence should never go uncompensated.

Serving injured individuals and families in Illinois for over 65 years