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Karla Taylor-Bauman needed a little extra cash. So she figured she’d tap a clause in her life insurance that allows an early withdrawal if the policy-holder has certain serious illnesses.
One problem: The insurance company told her, “You’re too healthy.” Given what she’s gone through over the past year, she’s totally OK with that: “I got denied because I am healthier than I ever was before,” said Taylor-Bauman, 50.
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Karla Taylor-Bauman needed a little extra cash. So she figured she’d tap a clause in her life insurance that allows an early withdrawal if the policy-holder has certain serious illnesses.
One problem: The insurance company told her, “You’re too healthy.”
Given what she’s gone through over the past year, she’s totally OK with that.
“I got denied because I am healthier than I ever was before,” says Taylor-Bauman, 50.
That would have seemed an unlikely scenario last spring, when the Lake Villa resident was described by her doctor as being “as close to brain-dead as you get without being brain-dead.”
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Can part-time work by one defendant in plaintiff s chosen forum preclude transfer for
forum nonconveniens when the alleged malpractice and death occurred in another county, and the plaintiff and the vast majority of witnesses also don t reside in the county?
Case Summary
Quavia Evans was transported via ambulance by the Waukegan Fire Department from her residence in Lake County to Vista Medical Center East (also in Lake County). The paramedics who transferred her were employed in Lake County. The nurse who treated Evans at Vista was a resident of Lake County. She was treated for diabetic ketoacidosis and discharged a few hours later. The physician who evaluated and discharged Evans was a Cook County resident. Two individuals who were Lake County residents saw the patient that day. At 2:00 am the following morning, Evans was found in full arrest and transported to Vista where she was pronounced dead. In discovery, defendants disclosed 90 potential trial witnesses, 80 of who
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