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About Steven Jambois
Steven K. Jambois is a founding partner of Schwartz Jambois who has represented injured plaintiffs in Illinois courts for more than 35 years. He earned his law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1982 and began his legal career as an associate with William D. Maddux and Associates, later helping to establish the successor firm in 1990. Admitted to the Iowa bar in addition to Illinois, Jambois has litigated medical malpractice, wrongful death, and personal injury matters across more than 20 Illinois counties. He is a member of the Society of Trial Lawyers, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the American Trial Lawyer Association, and the American Bar Association. Over the course of his career he has secured more than $200 million in verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients.
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Five days after a radical prostatectomy at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in Mattoon in August 2003, Clinton Dean Lovell was admitted with constipation. A physician ordered an enema only if Lovell's urologist approved; a nurse skipped that step and had an aide give a tap-water enema, which tore open the freshly sutured area and created a fistula between his rectum and bladder. Lovell went through a colostomy, a bladder catheter, fistula repair, colostomy reversal and an artificial urinary sphincter, and was left permanently incontinent. The hospital admitted negligence but blamed the surgery for the fistula. In September 2008 a Coles County jury awarded $2,378,258, and the Illinois Appellate Court affirmed in January 2010.
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