Medical Malpractice Claims In Illinois

Last updated on June 12, 2025

If you were injured or a loved one lost their life because of medical negligence, your next step should be seeking legal advice. The sooner you contact a lawyer after suspecting that a medical care provider caused you harm by failing to care for you properly, the more likely it is that answers will be discoverable.

At The Crannell Law Group, LLC in Naperville and Aurora, we help many Illinois residents and visitors by evaluating potential medical malpractice claims and recommending their next best courses of action. With more than 25 combined years of experience, we are skilled and equipped to give your concerns the full attention they deserve after a medical-related injury.

Medical Malpractice: A Brief Definition And Examples

Doctors and other health care professionals are responsible for following acceptable standards of care for patients. When they breach those standards and, as a result, patients suffer, medical malpractice may have occurred.

We often hear from patients and family members of patients who have suffered injuries because of medical negligence, such as the following:

• Birth injuries caused by defective prenatal care, failure to perform a timely C-section or another wrongdoing
• Diagnostic errors, including delayed diagnosis, failure to diagnose or misdiagnosis
• Surgical errors, such as operating on the wrong body parts or leaving foreign objects in patients’ bodies
• Emergency room (ER) errors
• Pharmaceutical errors (medication errors)

Once the injury and negligence have become clear to a knowledgeable legal professional, the next phase of a medical malpractice case is to prepare to file a claim. The defendant might be a doctor, pharmacist, nurse, pharmacy or hospital, to name a few possibilities.

Filing A Medical Malpractice Claim

After documenting that the standards of care for a patient have been breached, causing injury or death, a medical malpractice attorney will need to meet the deadline for filing a lawsuit. The deadlines, or statutes of limitations, for filing claims are as follows:

• Two years after discovering evidence of misconduct
• Four years after a medical error occurred
• Eight years or until age 22, if the patient was a minor

Since 2010, there have been no damage caps for patients whose claims are successful. We work hard to maximize our clients’ recoveries.

Get The Conversation Started

Contact our law firm to learn more about how to prove and bring a medical malpractice or dental malpractice claim in Illinois. We have more than 25 combined years of experience in personal injury law and have helped many inquirers and clients find justice and relief.

Please call (630) 995-9995 or send an email inquiry to schedule a free consultation after suffering injuries because of a surgical error, medication error, ER error or another type of malpractice. If you wish to bypass the initial intake process, you can complete this form prior to our meeting.