Professional Negligence Law Reporter

The Doe twins were delivered prematurely but remained viable. They were admitted to a hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, where the sole attending neonatologist allegedly ordered that the babies be transferred to another facility where they could receive appropriate care. Nevertheless, one of the twins allegedly died at the hospital after five hours. The other twin was transferred to the second facility but allegedly died after four hours.

The plaintiff asserted that the attending neonatologist failed to timely provide a surfactant and failed to evaluate the twins for infection. Negligent understaffing at the hospital also prevented the neonatologist from treating both twins simultaneously, the plaintiff claimed.

The parties settled after mediation for $1.7 million.

Citation: Doe v. Roe Hosp., Undisclosed Dkt. No. (Confidential Jxn. & Ct. 2024).

Plaintiff counsel: AAJ member John LaMantia, AAJ member Soobin Lee, and Joseph Konrad, all of Chicago.