Illinois Doctor Allegedly Faked Children’s Vaccines

A former patient’s family is targeting the estate of a Chicago-area pediatrician, claiming the late doctor had been falsifying children’s vaccination records for years.

Dr. Van Koinis died by suicide in September 2019, the fake vaccination class action reports; and in the note he left behind, he “expressed regret for the way he handled vaccinations and indicated that he may have lied to parents about vaccinating their children.”

The lawsuit estimates thousands of people may have been affected.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office notified the media about this in February, then mailed letters March 11 to the families of the patients Koinis had on file. The letter said their medical records might have been falsified to show they had received immunities they may not actually have received.

One of those letters went to the home of Jessica Czarnecki, whose daughter Brooke McGrath had been among Koinis’ patients. She is the lead plaintiff in the fake vaccination class action.

In June 2014, Czarnecki took Brooke to Koinis’ medical office to receive her routine vaccinations. In Czarnecki’s presence, the doctor administered shots with assistance from nurses, aides, technicians and other medical staff. He then noted in Brooke’s records that the vaccinations had been given.

Before she received the letter from the sheriff’s office, Czarnecki reasonably believed her daughter had been vaccinated properly and that her medical records were accurate. But, upon receiving that letter, she took her daughter to another medical provider to confirm one way or another so she could take appropriate action.

The test results showed Brooke’s body did not, in fact, carry the immunities they had assumed for nearly six years. She had to be re-immunized.

So have many of the doctor’s other patients, according to the fake vaccination class action. As a result, those patients and their families have suffered “unnecessary pain and suffering and mental anguish of knowing they may not have been vaccinated from deadly diseases.”

In addition, they are being forced to to pay again for health care services they thought had been previously rendered.

Koinis had been practicing medicine in Evergreen Park, Ill., since 1991. It’s unclear how long he had been engaging in the alleged activities, though his suicide note reportedly stated that “his records after 2010 were fraudulent and unreliable.” It’s also unclear exactly what, if anything, the doctor might have been injecting into his patients other than the requested vaccinations.

In a recent legal news story, Czarnecki’s attorney said at least 50 potential Class Members had already contacted the firm about this case.

“These families were betrayed by a very trusted doctor … and they were betrayed in the most serious way,” the attorney told Law360. “These were parents who brought their kids to a trusted doctor to have them vaccinated … and they watched their children be injected with something.”

The lawsuit seeks certification of a national Class and an Illinois subclass of plaintiffs with these parameters: “all patients that were not properly vaccinated, parents and/or patients who were not fully informed, and/or had their medical records falsified” by Koinis.

In the fake vaccination class action, Czarnecki claims three forms of negligence by the defendant:

1. Koinis falsely performed routine vaccinations; there is no evidence of immunity after requesting vaccinations and witnessing the defendant administering shots.
2. Koinis failed to fully inform his patients and their parents that he was not administering real vaccinations, despite the fact it was requested and he appeared to do so.
3. Koinis falsified medical records to indicate his patients were immunized when he knew they were not.

As a licensed physician, the defendant “had a duty to possess and apply the knowledge and the skill used by a reasonable pediatrician under similar circumstances,” the lawsuit argues. “As a direct and proximate result of the aforesaid negligent acts or omissions of the defendant, [the plaintiffs] sustained injuries of a personal and pecuniary nature, as well as emotional distress.”

On behalf of all putative Class Members, Czarnecki is demanding a jury trial in pursuit of actual and punitive damages for each claim, plus court costs and “all such further and other relief as the court deems just and appropriate.”

Do you believe you or your child may not have received the appropriate vaccinations? Let us know in the comments.

Czarnecki is represented by Jim Rollins of Wais Vogelstein Forman & Offutt LLC in Chicago.

The Fake Vaccination Class Action is Jessica Czarnecki, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, as parent and next friend of Brooke McGrath, a minor v. Estate of Van Koinis M.D., Case No. 2020CH04637, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.

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