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Notable Results

We have successfully handled hundreds of personal injury cases of all types and sizes. We have obtained record-breaking jury verdicts for our clients in state and federal courts throughout Illinois and the United States.

  • $31,250,000(Chicago)Product Liability

    Record settlement where a defective product resulted in a severe and permanent injury.

  • $20,000,000(Chicago)Product Liability

    $20 million verdict: $10 million in compensatory damages, $10 million in punitive damages against PACCAR, Inc., the manufacturer of Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks, for a man that lost his eye when the hood of his PACCAR truck unexpectedly blew over onto his head after his truck broke down. Plaintiff alleged that PACCAR, Inc. negligently manufactured and designed the truck by failing to implement known safety systems that prevented hoods from unexpectedly blowing over. When evidence revealed that PACCAR, Inc. knew of 16 prior similar incidents but failed to inform their safety engineers of these incidents, Plaintiff sought and the jury awarded punitive damages for the reckless conduct of PACCAR, Inc.

  • $16,500,000(US & Canada)Sexual Abuse

    Settlement from the Irish Christian Brothers for sexual abuse of students in their high schools, a portion of which will be awarded to over 30 victims we represent in the Chicago area.

  • $15,200,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement after the start of trial for a woman paralyzed during spine surgery at an Illinois hospital when her neurosurgeon failed to diagnose and treat Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament [OPLL].

  • $14,128,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Verdict for 14 year old boy for brain injury caused by medical malpractice at the time of his birth. An obstetrician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital failed to perform a timely Cesarean section when the unborn baby had a low heart rate, which caused the baby to suffer brain damage.

  • $12,000,000(Chicago)Sexual Abuse

    Settlement for three children neglected and sexually abused in foster care when the agency placing them in the foster home failed to monitor their care and failed to act upon various instances of suspicious behavior. One of the top 20 verdicts of 2006.

  • $11,280,042(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Structured settlement for a child with a brain injury, cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia that was caused when obstetricians and nurses at a Chicago hospital failed to detect that the baby was in a breech position and that the umbilical cord was trapped, resulting in loss of oxygen to the baby prior to delivery.

  • $10,500,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement in a medical malpractice case where negligent genetic advice resulted in the birth of a child with severe disabilities.

  • $9,800,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for a child who became deaf as the result of a failure to diagnose meningitis.

  • $9,066,086(Joliet, IL)Medical Malpractice

    Verdict plus post-judgment interest against Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, Illinois for negligently credentialing a podiatrist. The podiatrist’s subsequent negligent bunion surgery at the hospital resulted in severe infection and a partial amputation of plaintiff’s foot. Affirmed as the first negligent credentialing case reported in the State of Illinois by the Illinois Appellate Court and the Illinois Supreme Court.

  • $9,000,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Verdict for a 20 year old disabled man for brain injury caused by medical malpractice at birth. A resident doctor at Cook County Hospital in Chicago prematurely and improperly performed an amniotomy leading to an umbilical cord prolapse which deprived the baby of oxygen so that brain damage occurred.

  • $7,500,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for brain injury suffered by twins at birth due to the failure of their doctors to treat a Group B strep infection at Northwest Community Hospital.

  • $7,300,231(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Structured settlement for a 6 year old girl injured at birth when resident physicians pulled excessively on the girl’s head during delivery, resulting in an injury to the child’s left brachial plexus nerve.

  • $7,200,000(Wheaton, IL)Medical Malpractice

    Record wrongful death verdict in DuPage County, Illinois after a 48 year old woman admitted to Edward Hospital with pneumonia was wrongly diagnosed as suffering from alcohol withdrawal and instead treated with Valium and a nicotine patch as the oxygen in her blood slowly decreased.

  • $6,800,000(Chicago)Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

    Verdict plus settlement on behalf of an 81 year old woman who suffered loss of her kidney function and needed permanent dialysis due to improper use of gentamicin at a nursing home. Our successful appeal after the verdict increased the amount recovered for the plaintiff from $3,200,000 to $6,800,000. Affirmed by Illinois Appellate Court.

  • $6,500,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement during trial for brain injury to a child caused during labor and delivery when doctor and nurse at Provena Mercy Medical Center in Aurora, IL failed to realize that the baby’s heart rate was too low when the fetal heart monitor they were using mistakenly recorded the mother’s heart rate instead of the baby’s. As a result, they delayed cesarean section delivery of the baby, and the baby suffered loss of oxygen to the brain.

  • $6,000,000(Birmingham, Alabama)Motor Vehicle Accidents

    $6,000,000 settlement obtained by HMM Partner Michael T. Mertz for a 55-year-old Chicago man who suffered leg injuries in a head-on collision with a truck in 2019 in Birmingham, Alabama.

  • $5,412,000(Chicago)Personal Injury

    Cook County Circuit Court jury verdict of $5,412,000 obtained by HMM partners Michael T. Mertz and Christopher Cortese in April, 2022 against a Chicago apartment building owner and property management company who failed to maintain a building’s front security door, resulting in a 63-year-old female apartment tenant being attacked by an intruder.

  • $5,300,000(Wheaton, IL)Medical Malpractice

    Record high wrongful death settlement in DuPage County for the death of a 23 year old wife and mother admitted to Central DuPage Hospital with stroke symptoms. An MRI of the woman’s brain was performed in time, but the radiologist and the neurologist failed to diagnose the stroke depicted on the MRI images. This delay in diagnosis lost the woman’s opportunity to undergo life-saving surgery that would have removed the blood clot causing her stroke.

$1,000,000 – $5,000,000 Settlements
  • $4,750,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for failure to diagnose kidney disease in a pregnant woman by an obstetrician at the University of Chicago. The woman suffered end-stage renal disease as a result, and her prematurely delivered child suffered from intrauterine growth retardation.

  • $4,700,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Verdict for negligence and medical malpractice when emergency room doctors at St. James Hospital failed to timely intubate or provide an airway to a 49-year-old woman suffering an asthma attack, leading to her brain damage and death. See the Chicago Sun-Times article about the case here.

  • $4,500,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement on behalf of a 12 year old boy born developmentally challenged when doctors failed to perform an immediate cesarean section after there were indications the boy was suffering from lack of oxygen in the womb.

  • $4,200,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Verdict for injury to a newborn when a pediatrician at Resurrection Medical Center failed to diagnose and treat a blood clot in the boy’s leg, resulting in amputation of newborn’s right leg below the knee.

  • $3,750,000(Chicago)Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

    Settlement for an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s Disease who was sexually abused by an employee of her nursing home.

  • $3,500,000(Joliet, IL)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for wrongful death of a child who suffered permanent brain damage during labor and delivery at a Will County hospital.

  • $3,100,000(Chicago)Motor Vehicle Accidents

    A policy-limits settlement for a woman struck by a delivery truck in a crosswalk just outside of her workplace. The plaintiff suffered a traumatic brain injury in the incident.

  • $2,550,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for the wrongful death of a 19-year-old man who underwent an elective dental procedure at Northwest Community Hospital. The man’s anesthesiologist extubated him, or removed his breathing tube, while the man was still under the effects of anesthesia and unable to breathe on his own.

  • $2,025,000(Wheaton, IL)Personal Injury

    Record DuPage County verdict for the wrongful death of a 78 year old woman who fell down an unlit staircase at a church.

  • $2,000,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement before suit was filed for a 50 year old woman whose left arm was permanently paralyzed during a cardiac catheterization procedure at Loyola University Medical Center.

  • $2,000,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Verdict for 7 year old girl injured at birth when an obstetrician pulled excessively on the girl’s head during delivery, resulting in an injury to the child’s right brachial plexus nerve. After the verdict the defendant agreed to a structured settlement which will pay the girl $5,674,772 over her lifetime.

  • $2,000,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for the death of a 60 year old man from an undiagnosed ulcer caused by negligent emergency room care.

  • $2,000,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for the death of a diabetic mother during childbirth. The doctors failed to diagnose and treat diabetic ketoacidosis during pregnancy.

  • $1,800,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for 68 year-old woman who suffered a stroke after a radiologist at St. Joseph’s Hospital failed to report critical MRI results warning of an impending stroke to the woman’s neurologist.

  • $1,710,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Verdict for 29 year old man who lost the use of his left arm due to failure to diagnose compartment syndrome at Loyola University Medical Center.

  • $1,500,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Wrongful death medical malpractice settlement achieved on behalf of the family of a 32-year-old man that died of a pulmonary embolism that went undiagnosed at a hospital in Iroquois County, Illinois.

  • $1,500,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for a 65 year old man who suffered a spinal cord injury during back surgery at Northshore University Medical Center in Evanston, Illinois.

  • $1,275,000(Chicago)

    Settlement reached on behalf of an 86-year-old woman that was struck and then run over by a car backing out of a parking spot.

  • $1,200,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Verdict and settlement for orthopedic negligence when an orthopedic surgeon injured a man’s radial nerve during elbow surgery.

  • $1,140,000(Wheaton, IL)Medical Malpractice

    Verdict plus interest in DuPage County after an obstetrician used excessive traction during delivery of a baby, causing a brachial plexus injury to the baby’s arm.

  • $1,140,000(Chicago)Construction AccidentsProduct Liability

    Verdict in a construction accident/product liability case for a carpenter whose index finger was amputated by a defective Delta table saw. A flaw in the extension table caused the piece being cut to jam and force the plaintiff’s hand into the spinning blade. Tried in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

  • $1,000,000(Chicago)Personal Injury

    Wrongful death case brought on behalf of the family of a 91 year old woman that was found deceased in her home after the installation of a new boiler. After two expert inspections of the boiler, we determined that the boiler had been improperly installed, leading it to run constantly and raise the temperature within the house to unsafe levels, causing the decedent’s death.

  • $1,000,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement before filing suit against practitioners of facilitated communication (FC). Use of this disproved technique to treat autistic children actually delayed getting a severely autistic boy proper therapies.

  • $1,000,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for psychiatric malpractice for a 42 year old woman and her family where improper hypnosis techniques were used to create false memories.

  • $1,000,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for the wrongful death of a 38 year old man resulting from medical negligence. The man’s physicians had replaced his aortic heart valve with a mechanical prosthetic valve replacement and failed to perform the necessary tests to discover that he was suffering runs of tachycardia because a leaflet on the valve was missing.

  • $1,000,000(Geneva, IL)Nursing Home Abuse and NeglectSexual Abuse

    Verdict and settlement for a 90 year old woman sexually abused by an employee of her nursing home, Ashwood Healthcare Center in Elgin, Illinois.

  • $1,000,000(Chicago)Motor Vehicle Accidents

    Settlement for a 46 year old woman whose multiple sclerosis was aggravated in an auto accident.

  • $1,000,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Verdict where medical clinic failed to advise a 70 year old man of the fact that cancer was reported on his chest x-ray. The man died after six months of unnecessary suffering from untreated lung cancer.

  • $1,000,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Policy-limit settlement after a jury trial when an emergency room physician failed to diagnose and treat a one year old boy’s dehydration at Little Company of Mary Hospital, leading to the child’s death.

< $1,000,000 Settlements
  • $975,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for wrongful death of a 41 year old man who died because his nephrologist failed to perform dialysis to reverse the effects of his aspirin overdose.

  • $973,952(Chicago)Motor Vehicle Accidents

    Settlement reached on behalf of a woman involved in a rear-end automobile accident that led to the development of an arterio-venous fistula.

  • $900,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for the wrongful birth of a child born with cystic fibrosis where the fertility clinic failed to screen for the disease before implanting embryos.

  • $900,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for wrongful death of a 68 year old man who died because his doctor discharged him from the hospital without performing the proper tests to diagnose the cause of his symptoms. The man died shortly thereafter of endocarditis.

  • $900,000(Wheaton)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for an 8 year old girl who suffered motor deficits as a result of obstetrical malpractice at the time of her birth at Hinsdale Hospital.

  • $900,000(Chicago)Motor Vehicle Accidents

    Settlement for a 19 year old man who suffered a head injury when a gravel truck collided with his car.

  • $850,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for a man whose gallbladder was injured due to surgical negligence during a laparoscopic procedure.

  • $800,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for 81 year old man who developed a spinal epidural hematoma which was not promptly diagnosed and treated after back surgery.

  • $800,000(Chicago)Construction Accidents

    Settlement for a 50 year old electrician injured in a construction accident when a clay tile hit him and injured his neck.

  • $800,000(Chicago)Construction Accidents

    Settlement for a construction worker who suffered electrical burns from a nearby power line while installing aluminum siding on a home that was being built too close to a power line.

  • $800,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Verdict for a boy who suffered a brachial plexus injury to his arm when an obstetrician used excessive traction during the delivery at Michael Reese Hospital.

  • $750,000(Rockville, MD)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for a 64 year old woman injured when an infectious disease specialist prescribed gentamicin without adequate monitoring, resulting in kidney damage and the need for dialysis.

  • $711,000(Chicago)Personal Injury

    Verdict against St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital for wrongful discharge of a security guard fired for making a workers’ compensation claim.

  • $700,000(Marysville, TN)Motor Vehicle Accidents

    Settlement in the State of Tennessee, where damages are capped by law, for the wrongful death of an 82 year old woman who was killed in an automobile collision when a driver crossed the center line and hit her vehicle head on.

  • $700,000(Nashville, TN)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement in the State of Tennessee, where damages are capped by law, for the wrongful death of a 70 old man resulting from medical negligence in a hospital.

  • $650,000(Chicago)Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

    Settlement for family of 78 year old woman who was neglected at Oak Lawn Pavilion, a nursing home, resulting in bed sores, muscle contractures and death.

  • $650,000(Chicago)Motor Vehicle Accidents

    Settlement for a 20 year old woman struck by a car, causing a temporary head injury and a broken leg.

  • $600,000(Chicago)Motor Vehicle Accidents

    Settlement reached on behalf of a cyclist that was struck by a car and suffered a hip fracture.

  • $600,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for dental and orthodontic malpractice when a woman lost her teeth due to untreated periodontal disease.

  • $600,000(Chicago)Personal Injury

    Settlement for a 22 year old woman who injured her neck when a porch collapsed.

  • $500,000(Chicago)Medical MalpracticeNursing Home Abuse and Neglect

    Settlement for family of a 75 year old man who suffered bed sores and muscle contractures at a Chicago nursing home.

  • $500,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for a 66 year old woman whose breast cancer diagnosis was delayed for thirteen months.

  • $500,000(Chicago)Medical Malpractice

    Settlement for a 65 year old man for medical negligence when an emergency room physician failed to order the proper tests to diagnose and treat a stroke.

  • $500,000(Chicago)Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

    Settlement for neglect leading to a fractured hip suffered for a 70 year old woman in a nursing home.

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