April 27 2003
$4 Million Settlement Reached in Winnebago County
August 7, 2003
Principal Attorney Michael P. Schostok of the law firm Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. announced that a $4 million settlement was reached on behalf of a child injured at birth at Rockford Memorial Hospital .
On November 2, 1998, Treva Brown, 23 of Rockford , Illinois , was admitted to Rockford Memorial Hospital as an obstetric patient. Due to Ms. Brown's previous births, medical records indicated that she was a high-risk pregnancy. Previously, she was admitted twice for premature labor. Attorneys for the plaintiff alleged that the mother's doctor failed to deliver her son in a timely manner after there were clear signs of fetal distress. As a result, Jamarius Cavitt was unable to receive a proper level of oxygen and was born permanently brain damaged. This tragedy could have been avoided if the doctor would have followed the standard of care.
The combined settlement of $4,000,000 was paid to the minor, Jamarius Cavitt, by St. Paul Insurance. The Honorable Judge Holmgren of the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County , Illinois , approved the settlement.
For additional information on the Cavitt case, Michael P. Schostok or the law firm of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C., please contact Marketing Director, Christina Solomon at 312-372-1227 or at csolomon@salvilaw.com
