Hurley McKenna & Mertz, P.C. is dedicated to representing victims of serious personal injury and medical malpractice. Our firm has the highest possible rating for professionalism and ethics. We have won record setting verdicts and settlements for our clients throughout Illinois and across the United States.
Our founding partner Christopher T. Hurley is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers as well as the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is also a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). All of these organizations offer membership by invitation only and limit their ranks to the most skilled and ethical trial lawyers in the United States.
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Recent Successes
$12,000,000 - Settlement for three children neglected and abused in foster care when the agency placing them in the foster home failed to monitor their care.
$9,800,000 - Settlement for child that lost her hearing as the result of a failure to diagnose meningitis.
$7,775,668.02 - Record verdict for woman who underwent left foot amputation as a result of negligent podiatric surgery
$7,500,000 - Settlement for brain injury suffered by a child at birth due to the failure of his doctors to treat a Group B strep infection.
$7,300,231 - Structured settlement for 6 year old girl injured at birth when resident physicians pulled excessively on girl's head during delivery, resulting in an injury to child's left brachial plexus nerve.