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Vinkler Law Named to U.S. News-Best Lawyers 2023 “Best Law Firms”

Vinkler Law Offices, LTD. Named in U.S. News – Best Lawyers 2023 “Best Law Firms” List Vinkler Law Offices, LTD. is proud to announce it has been named to the 2023 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list, recognizing it as among the most elite and talented law firms across the nation earning a Tier 2 ranking for Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs. The...

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Appeals Court: Statute of Limitations Still Paused for Disabled Person’s Lawsuit

Appeals Court: Statute of Limitations Still Paused for Disabled Person’s Lawsuit An Illinois appellate panel has ruled a nursing home cannot use a two-year statute of limitations to escape a medical negligence claim from the guardian of a disabled person, even though the guardian had already filed suit against a hospital nearly three years earlier over those same injuries...

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Jerry Vinkler Named to 2022 Super Lawyers

Jerry Vinkler Named to 2022 Super Lawyers To be recognized for an award in your chosen profession is an honor, but to receive that award for the 15th year in a row goes to show that you are a master of your craft – someone who is truly the best of the best. Vinkler Law Offices LTD. is pleased to announce that every year since 2007, Jerome Vinkler has been nominated to...

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$2,000,000 Settlement in Cook County Medical Malpractice Case

$2,000,000 Confidential Settlement in Cook County Medical Malpractice Case On February 2, 2021, Jerry Vinkler of Vinkler Law Offices, Ltd. obtained a $2,000,000 confidential settlement in Cook County in a medical malpractice case against a family practice doctor and the Adventist Healthcare System. The case had been pending in Cook County Circuit Court. Jeannie Pinner was the...

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Jerry Vinkler Named Super Lawyer

Jerry Vinkler Named Super Lawyer Jerry Vinkler Selected by Super Lawyers® For 2021 Being named Super Lawyer for fourteen consecutive years is not something every Illinois medical malpractice lawyer can claim. Jerry Vinkler is one of those Super Lawyers® who can claim that distinction. He first received this prestige award in 2007 and then every year since. This honor is only...

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Vinkler Law Welcomes Kelsey J. Burge JD

Vinkler Law Welcomes Kelsey J. Burge, JD On behalf of Vinkler Law Offices, the firm is pleased to announce they have hired Kelsey J. Burge who began with the firm in July 2020.  We expect she will pursue our clients’ cases with energy and commitment after sitting for the Illinois Bar Exam in October. KELSEY BURGE graduated from Northern Illinois University College of Law near...

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Nursing Home Negligence Leads to $500,000 Wrongful Death Verdict

Nursing Home Negligence Leads To $500,000 Wrongful Death Verdict Jerry Vinkler tried a nursing home abuse and wrongful death case in April/May, 2014, to verdict, obtaining an award of $500,000.00 against the nursing home. An 83 year old resident was on a tracheotomy tube which required constant monitoring, suctioning and cleaning. The Estate contended that the nursing home failed...

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Highlights of Past News Items

Highlights of Past News Items Jerry Vinkler Named Super Lawyer For 2012 Jerry Vinkler has once again stood above the rest with his work in medical malpractice law in Illinois. Mr. Vinkler has been honored as a Super Lawyer for 2012. This is Mr. Vinkler’s fourth consecutive award, having also been named in 2009, 2010 and 2011. This award designates Jerry Vinkler as one of the...

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Hot Coffee Lawsuit

Hot Coffee Lawsuit An Illinois personal injury attorney can affect change in society by filing certain lawsuits. The media and the PR firms and corporations that influence them may label some of these cases as frivolous, but are they really? Illinois personal injury attorney, Jerry Vinkler has talked about the McDonalds’ hot coffee lawsuit before, and it bears repeating. The...

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Do You Need an Illinois Malpractice Lawyer?

Do You Need An Illinois Malpractice Lawyer? An Illinois malpractice lawyer should be contacted if you or a family member suffers a hospital acquired illness or injury that could have been prevented. While problems within the U.S. health care system are widely recognized, a recent report by Commonwealth Fund reports that “Chicago is a health care market marked by high costs and...

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Are Hospital Errors Being Reported?

Are Hospital Errors Being Reported? Preventable medical errors and infections harm one in four hospital patients, according to a new study by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). As an Illinois personal injury attorney, I find these numbers to be staggering. While all hospitals included in the study had incident reporting systems in place and administrators claimed...

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Medical Errors Costing U.S. Billions

Medical Errors Costing U.S. Billions TUESDAY, April 8 (The Washington Post- Health Day News) — From 2004 through 2006, patient safety errors resulted in 238,337 potentially preventable deaths of U.S. Medicare patients and cost the Medicare program $8.8 billion, according to the fifth annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study. This analysis of 41 million Medicare patient...

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3 Indicted on 28 Counts in Nevada

3 Indicted on 28 Counts in Nevada Doc And CRNAs Indicted On 28 Counts In Nevada Hep C Outbreak After a 2-year criminal investigation into the Las Vegas-area hepatitis C outbreak, a grand jury has indicted a physician and 2 nurse anesthetists on 28 felony counts, including racketeering, patient neglect and insurance fraud. Dipak Desai, MD, and nurse anesthetists Ronald Ernest...

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Poor Infection Control At Many Surgery Centers

Poor Infection Control At Many Surgery Centers CHICAGO, June 8, 2010 – A new federal study finds many same-day surgery centers — where patients get such things as foot operations and pain injections — have serious problems with infection control. Failure to wash hands, wear gloves and clean blood glucose meters were among the reported breaches. Clinics reused devices meant for...

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Hospital Closing Leave Many New Yorkers in a Lurch

Hospital Closing Leave Many New Yorkers in a Lurch The closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital has left yet another wounded group in the lurch – hundreds of New Yorkers who are suing the hospital for medical malpractice.  More than 260 people pursuing malpractice and negligence claims against the bankrupt hospital are in legal limbo.  With St. Vincent’s assets going to Bankruptcy...

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