Mar 10: Personal Injury Lawsuit Filed Alleging That Police and Hospital Failed to Protect Patient
In December of last year, on a cold and wintery night, a young man who had plans to attend the University of Illinois Chicago was hit by a car while walking on a dark road in Orland Park, Illinois. How he came to be in that place at that time is the subject of a lawsuit that was later filed in Will County. The events began after the attendant at a gas station reported a man who was acting erratically. He was picked up in Worth by Orland Park officers who transported him to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox. The man, who had schizophrenia and was delusional at the time, was then treated at the hospital and later released within a period of hours, but not admitted to the psychiatric unit at the hospital. Traumatic Brain Injury After being...