Biography
Thomas G. Siracusa has been with Power Rogers since 1986. An experienced litigator, he has obtained multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements for clients who have suffered personal injuries or the families of wrongful death victims in cases involving medical malpractice, product liability, automobile, and trucking negligence.
Mr. Siracusa has achieved record-setting results for his clients.
Mr. Siracusa has achieved record-setting results for his clients. In 2015, he obtained a $23,000,000.00 settlement on behalf of a woman who suffered brain damage and quadriplegia as a result of medical malpractice during her labor. The result has been identified as the largest settlement ever reached in Illinois for a birth-related injury to a mother.
In another record settlement, Mr. Siracusa obtained $19,250,000.00 for a child who suffered brain damage as a result of a medication overdose. The medical malpractice settlement was then the largest ever recorded against Cook County.
In 2014, Mr. Siracusa obtained $15,000,000.00 for the family of a woman who died after being administered excessive radiation during a surgical procedure. The result is among the largest wrongful death settlements in Illinois history.
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Thomas G. Siracusa obtained a $23,000,000.00 settlement on behalf of a woman who suffered brain damage and quadriplegia as a result of medical malpractice during her labor – the largest settlement reached in an Illinois birth-related injury to a mother.
Mr. Siracusa has an active and varied product liability practice. Recently, he secured $8,000,000.00 for a worker who suffered orthopedic injuries due to the failure of elevator cables. He has obtained millions of dollars for clients in cases involving defective seatbelts, defective airbags, defective tires, unsafe medications, and defective medical devices.
In addition to his caseload, Mr. Siracusa publishes on medical malpractice and product liability for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education. A frequent author and speaker on trial practice and evidentiary issues, Mr. Siracusa also serves on the Board of Managers of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the Board of the Birth Trauma Litigation Group of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and is recognized by peers as a “Leading Lawyer” and “Super Lawyer” in the field of personal injury.
Results
Examples of settlements or verdicts in excess of $2,000,000.00 obtained in cases handled by Mr. Siracusa include:
- Medical Malpractice: inappropriate administration of medication caused brain damage to child.
- Settlement: $19,250,00.00
- Medical Malpractice: failure to treat high blood pressure caused brain damage to pregnant mother.
- Settlement: $12,225,000.00
- Medical Malpractice: delayed delivery caused brain damage to child.
- Settlement: $10,500,000.00
- Medical Malpractice: failure to treat pre-term labor caused brain damage to child.
- Settlement: $9,500,000.00
- Medical Malpractice: patient developed loss of strength and sensation in lower extremities following an intercostal injection.
- Settlement: $8,000,000.00
- Product Liability/Negligence: defectively designed/worn tires caused deaths of driver and passenger.
- Settlement: $7,450,000.00
- Medical Negligence: a 66 year-old woman suffered paraparesis after physicians at an area hospital failed to timely diagnose her rare spinal cord lesion.
- Settlement: $7,000,000.00
- Product Liability: failure to warn re: proper use of explosives and premature detonation caused injuries to worker.
- Settlement: $6,700,000.00
- Medical Malpractice: prenatal asphyxia caused cerebral palsy and brain damage to child.
- Settlement: $5,000,000.00
- Automobile Negligence: tractor-trailer struck automobile and caused injuries to passenger.
- Settlement: $4,750,000.00
- Medical Malpractice: perinatal hypoxia caused cerebral palsy and brain damage to child.
- Settlement: $4,500,000.00
- Product Liability: defectively designed tires caused injury to passenger.
- Settlement: $4,000,000.00
- Product Liability: defective vehicle design caused death.
- Settlement: $4,000,000.00
- Medical Malpractice: failure to diagnose arterial disease caused bowel injury.
- Settlement: $3,600,000.00Medical
- Malpractice: delayed delivery caused brain injury to child.
- Settlement: $3,600,00.00
- Medical Malpractice: delayed delivery caused brain injury to child.
- Settlement: $3,500,000.00
- Automobile Negligence: trucking collision caused injury.
- Settlement: $3,500,000.00
- Product Liability: defectively designed restraint system caused injury.
- Settlement: $3,500,000.00
- Medical Malpractice: delayed delivery caused nerve injury to child.
- Settlement: $2,500,000.00
- Medical Malpractice: misdiagnosis of cardiac condition caused death.
- Settlement: $2,948,000.00
- Offer before trial: $0
- Medical Malpractice: nursing negligence caused patient to develop bedsores.
- Settlement: $2,500,000.00
- Offer before trial: $0
- Negligence/Product Liability: negligent driving and defective seat caused death of a child.
- Settlement: $2,200,000.00
- Medical Malpractice: Hypoxia during surgery caused neurologic injury to child.
- Settlement: $2,125,000.00
Results
Medical Malpractice: Failure to treat high blood pressure caused by brain damage to mother.
Medical Malpractice/Brain Injury: While recovering from burns to 35% of her body, the minor plaintiff (11 months) was negligently provided two boluses of a medication called Albumin resulting in brain damage.
Power Rogers recovers $15 million for radiation overdose.
G. v. West Suburban Hospital, et al.
(2006) Medical malpractice/Birth Injury. T.G. was admitted to the hospital and medical personnel attached a fetal monitor and started induction of labor with Pitocin on October 22, 2001 because she was pre-eclamptic. T.G. began dilating in the early hours of October 23, 2001 and had an epidural administered. Tanisha was fully dilated at approximately 10 p.m. on 10/23/01, began pushing, after hours of inadequate progress of labor a C-section was done at 2:51 a.m. on October 24, 2001. During labor episodes of hyper-stimulation of the uterus occurred and decelerations of fetal heart tones. The fetal monitor also malfunctioned and failed to accurately record contractions. During T.G.=s labor, her fetal heart rate monitoring tracings revealed signs of and were consistent with fetal stress and/or distress. Drs. Lopez, Smith, Tarpey and Macumber failed to recognize the significance of changes in the fetal heart rate as evidenced on the fetal monitor strips from October 23rd through October 24th 2001. D.G. was delivered by emergency caesarean section on October 24, 2001. Upon birth, D.G. was not breathing and depressed and shortly after birth transferred to Children=s Memorial Hospital where she was diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy, spastic quadriplegia and seizure disorder.
Product Liability: Defective/improperly maintained elevator hoist ropes caused orthopedic injuries.
