Matthew Dudley and Samantha Sindles settled a wrongful death medical malpractice case against a suburban Cook County hospital for 2.25 million dollars. The deceased was a 41-year-old married mother. Her daughter is now 18 years old.
The case involved the failure of the hospital staff to respond to increasing complaints of respiratory distress following an abdominal hysterectomy. The failure to act on the worsening condition, which was caused by the post-operative aspiration of stomach contents, led to her respiratory arrest and death. Dudley & Lake retained some of the nation’s foremost experts in critical care medicine and surgery in order to achieve this result. The settlement was featured by Chicago Lawyer Magazine as one of the most noteworthy malpractice settlements of the year.