Representative Cases

• Auto Liability: settled over 300 cases involving automobiles and trucks, resulting in spinal injuries, traumatic brain injuries, fractures, soft tissue injuries and property damage
• Civil Rights: settled numerous police misconduct cases, involving policies, training and behavioral issues, causing physical and emotional injuries
• Civil Rights: settled police shooting claim by decedent’s estate arising from attack of police officer, involving duty and department policy issues
• Civil Rights: presided over a police car chase case, resulting in the crash of plaintiffs’ vehicle, causing the death of a 22-year-old male and a traumatic brain injury to a 21-year-old male; jury verdict of $33.5 million
• Contract: settled breach of contract, fiduciary duty and fraud claims among former business partners; $2.7 million settlement
• Construction: settled cases involving personal injury, contract and construction claims with general contractors, subcontractors, architects, owners and insurers
• Construction Accident: worker accident caused by garage vehicle, resulting in amputation of finger; settled $8.65 million
• Construction Accident: plaintiff sustained a severe spinal injury when a boom lift slid off a flatbed truck; jury verdict of $19 million, settled post-trial
• Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA): presided over and/or settled numerous personal injury cases by railroad workers injured by faulty equipment, policies or procedures
• Legal Malpractice: settled numerous claims against tort or commercial lawyers involving underlying claims of personal injuries, divorce, contract and business law
• Medical Malpractice: settled and presided over 200 cases with doctors, nurses and hospitals involving issues related to the emergency room, cardiac, cancer, vascular, internal medicine, pediatricians, radiology, infectious disease, orthopedics, psychiatry, ob-gyn, pain medicine, MRSA and surgeries
• Medical Malpractice: orthopedic surgeon’s spinal surgery resulted in senior citizen’s drop foot, incontinence and decreased use of right arm; $700,000 settlement
• Medical Malpractice: failure to diagnose a newborn’s urethral valve obstruction, causing infection and resulting in a catastrophic brain injury; settled $8 million

• Medical Malpractice: failure to advise patient of risks of coronary atherectomy to remove blockage utilizing a laser, resulting in severe heart damage; $3.5 million settlement
• Medical Malpractice: provider failed to perform proper cardiac evaluation for a 33-year-old male admitted to the emergency room complaining of chest pain, arm pain, shortness of breath and nausea; diagnosed with acute alcohol intoxication, possible pancreatitis and discharged with instructions to follow-up with physician; one week later, patient died of a massive heart attack; settled $3.5 million
• Nursing Home: settled numerous cases involving claims of abuse, falls, decubitus ulcers, infections and wrongful death
• Personal Injury: settled a case against a municipality, involving a bicyclist struck by a car, due to street marking design, causing rotator cuff injury requiring surgery; $1.3 million settlement
• Premises Liability: Settled hundreds of cases involving sidewalk defects, snow removal, design defects, natural accumulations and defects in public property involving the Tort Immunity Act
• Products Liability: plaintiff claimed a truck tractor design defect; driver door vertical grab handle attachment design was defective, causing the handle to detach, resulting in the plaintiff falling and suffering a traumatic brain injury
• Sexual Abuse: negotiated over 50 settlements involving the claims of adults and minors against religious and educational institutions
• Sexual Abuse: student groomed by teacher, then forcibly battered student, causing post-traumatic stress syndrome, eating disorder and anxiety; $800,000 settlement
• Sexual Abuse: presided over case against a high school security guard who groomed and abused three female cheerleaders, resulting in judgment for plaintiffs
• Toxic Tort: mediated, for over a year, the settlements of 2,600 consolidated personal injury cases involving the release of toxic chemicals from a landfill, resulting in the largest landfill settlement in Illinois for $28.5 million; to effectuate the settlement, the 2,600 cases were converted to a class action
• Wrongful Death: cardiologist failed to take a proper history and perform a complete physical exam prior to ordering use of a treadmill by decedent, resulting in cardiac arrest; settled $1.5 million