Apulello v. Illinois Central Railroad
Verdict: $32,707,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $2,000,000
Railroad Crossing: Thirty-nine year old working mother struck by train at crossing with inoperative lights and gates. She sustained minor injuries to her hand and developoed a brain injury and psychiatric condition that left her totally disabled. Her husband received a $3.35 million…
Tierney v. Comm. Mem. Gen. Hosp.
Verdict: $18,500,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $200,000
Medical Malpractice: Thirty-six-year-old with bacterial endocarditis that was misdiagnosed as a flare-up of a gastric ulcer. As a result of the delay in proper diagnosis, the plaintiff suffered a stroke that left him mildy brain-damaged and paralyzed on the left side of his…
Cohn v. Frost
Verdict: $9,800,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $0
Medical Malpractice: Thirty-nine-year-old mother of two who died of a ruptured cerebral aneurysm that was not diagnosed by neurologist who was trying to determine the cause of her headaches. Terrence J. Lavin was co-counsel with Joseph A. Power.
Christopher v. Rumsey et al.
Verdict: $6,500,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $0
Medical Malpractice: Forty-nine-year-old woman who died nine days following an outpatient tubal ligation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. During the surgery, her bladder was punctured and she developed a flesh-eating infection that claimed her life. Verdict was against her treating gynecologists who failed to call…
Monaghan v. W.G. Motors, Inc.
Verdict: $4,635,155
Pre-Trial Offer: $50,000
One-car accident in which the plaintiff fell asleep at the wheel, hit a telephone pole, and the car caught on fire. The plaintiff suffered serious burns to the leg and left arm. The Verdict was against the dealer who had repaired the car’s fuel…
Roe v. Carrillo
Verdict: $3,000,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $650,000
Medical Malpractice: Improper treatment of compound leg fracture in seventeen-year-old boy whose right leg was shortened one inch with muscle loss as a result of gangrene caused by the medical management.
Marek v. Amaitis & Associates et al.
Verdict: $2,546,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $0
Work Injury: 23 year-old maintenance mechanic suffered crushing and “degloving” injury to three fingers on his dominant hand resulting in ten surgeries to repair tendon, verssel and cosmetic damage. Verdict is the largest ever in Illinois for a hand injury without finger amputation.
Garner v. P. H. Lounge, Inc.
Verdict: $1,450,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $100,000
Wrongful Death: Twenty-one-year-old man, bar patron, shot and killed by manager/bouncer of bar, who used excessive force in brandishing and using a .38 caliber pistol to quell minor disturbance. Verdict was against manager/bouncer and owners of bar. Verdict stood for ten years as…
Ruiz v. James Magee, M.D., et al.
Verdict: $1,275,000
Medical Malpractice: Forty-six-year-old father of two teenage daughters died after his doctor failed to complete tests that would have diagnosed colon cancer before it progressed and metastasized to his liver, becoming incurable and terminal. The patient saw his doctor after he began experiencing bowel symptoms, whereupon a sigmoidoscopy…
Starr v. James Malow, M.D., et al.
Verdict: $900,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $0
Medical Malpractice: Wrongful death of a fifty-three-year-old man who was admitted to Skokie Valley Hospital with an infection of his left ankle and sepsis. Defendants failed to timely treat necrotizing fascitis (flesh-eating bacteria) which claimed his life.
Best v. Ryan
Verdict: $752,500
Pre-Trial Offer: $50,000
Personal Injury: Motorcyclist, twenty-nine-year-old man, was hit by a drunk driver and suffered a compound fracture to his left leg.
Downing v. United Auto Racing Association
Verdict: $615,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $250,000
Auto Racing: Pit crew member who was standing on the racetrack was hit by an out-of-control racecar. Plaintiff suffered a compound fracture to one leg.
Moore v. Mercy Hospital
Verdict: $600,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $200,000
Medical Malpractice: Suffocation death of one-day-old baby boy in hospital nursery after he was born with no deformities other than a markedly deviated septum.
Bickner v. Lee
Verdict: $212,900
Pre-Trial Offer: $40,000
Auto Intersection accident: Twenty-five-year old woman suffered a non-displaced pelvis and jaw fractures which required wiring for six weeks.
Sanders v. Smith
Verdict: $150,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $75,000
Auto/bicycle collision: Twelve-year-old girl crossing Kedzie Avenue against the light suffered facial scar when struck by a car.
