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Since August of 2001, the state of Illinois has had a Safe Haven Law in place. Yet some believe that ignorance of the amnesty this law gives to those who relinquish their newborns to the noted places, may have led to a recent newborn death. ​ A sophomore at the University of Illinois in Champaign…

DePuy, Stryker, and Zimmer are not the only hip prosthesis manufactures getting hauled to court over defective metal-on-metal devices. Koester Law, PLLC filed a hip replacement lawsuit against Wright Medical Group on behalf of a man who claims the failure of his hip implant required him to undergo painful revision surgery and radically changed his…

“Medical Malpractice lawsuits cost us all in healthcare premiums.”  This is the faulty rhetoric put forth by certain entities opposed to civil lawsuits.   Health Affairs, a public policy journal, has recently published a study that may prove otherwise.  The only way to hold the healthcare and medical industry accountable for their negligence is through…

Since the first Equity-Indexed Annuities appeared in the product lines of insurance companies in the mid 1990’s,significant confusion has abounded. These annuities can be classified somewhere in the void left betweenfixed annuities and variable annuities. In this regard, many individual investors are naturally attracted tothe perceived benefit derived by Equity-Indexed Annuities. Benefits are described as…

No More Tears? There have been a variety of great victories for the victims of defective drugs and devices in the recent weeks. At Koester Law, PLLC, we like to keep our friends in Champaign-Urbana and across Central Illinois up-to-speed on the latest Mass Tort developments so that if you or a loved on has…

The FDA has warned that it is not clear that transvaginal POP repair with mesh is more effective than traditional non-mesh repair in all patients with POP, and that vaginal mesh may expose patients to greater risk. Still mesh is used widely across Champaign-Urbana and Central Illinois. The FDA issued this warning because mesh has…

Koester Law, PLLC is continuing its investigation and representation of claims resulting from all metal-on-metal hip prostheses. This includes the DePuy Pinnacle Metal on Metal Hip system that is widely used in Central Illinois. Hospitals such as Presence Covenant Medical Center (Provena), Carle Foundation Hospital, and Decatur Memorial Hospital have implanted many Pinnacle hips. The…

Attorney Ryan Bradley has coordinated with the top agricultural litigation attorneys in the country tore present local farmers that have been impacted by China’s failure to approve Syngenta Viptera corn for import. Presently, Koester Law, PLLC and its partner firms are pursuing all of their cases in Marion County Illinois. Whether or not a farmer…

Tom Koester believe in giving back. By supporting local organizations such as Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, the CU Ballet, the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club, and CU At Home, Koester Law, PLLC hopes to contribute to the vibrant micro-urban community we have here in Champaign-Urbana. Most recently, Koester Law, PLLC sponsored One…

Tom Koester had a string of high dollar settlements in 2015. Tom Koester started the year with the largest settlement in Firm history of for a medical malpractice case for $3,500,000.00. Tom Koester is now in the final stages of wrapping up a $15,000,00.00 class action case that was years in the making and benefitted…