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Our Success Record

Chicago Personal Injury Lawyers With Over $5 Billion Recovered

When looking for an accident lawyer, Illinois residents should call Power Rogers. After dozens of years representing clients in various personal injury matters, the Chicago lawyers of Power Rogers have built a reputation by recovering significant personal injury settlements and verdicts. Our team has achieved numerous personal injury settlements and record-setting verdicts. Our trial experience not only helps us win in the courtroom but around the negotiating table as well. As our personal injury settlements and verdicts demonstrate, our lawyers are very adept at navigating Illinois accident law.

Setting Records For Personal Injury Recoveries

Some of our successes have included recovering $100 million in a wrongful death suit under Illinois accident law. This recovery was the largest personal injury award for a single family in Illinois.

Our Chicago firm has recovered multimillion-dollar personal injury settlements and verdicts under Illinois accident law. Our team of skilled personal injury lawyers puts all of our resources and energy into fighting to win each and every case for our clients. And whether a settlement from a negligent physician or a verdict against a hospital, we always seek the maximum recovery allowable under Illinois accident law.

Power Rogers, LLP Success Record
    • $27M Verdict

      Product Liability

      $27 Million Verdict — Product Liability

      D. and S. v. Syntex
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Larry R. Rogers Sr.

      Product Liability: This product liability case involving children who sufferedbrain damage as a result of baby formula.

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    • $100M Recovery

      Truck Accident, Car Accident, Wrongful Death, Product Liability

      $100 Million Recovery- Product Liability, Motor Vehicle Negligence, Trucking

      No. 98 L 3127
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Larry R. Rogers Jr.

      Trucking/Products Liability: Joseph A. Power, Jr., as lead counsel, with the assistance of Larry Rogers,
      Jr. represented a Chicago family that lost six children in a fiery Wisconsin
      car crash in 1994 caused by an unqualified truck driver. Investigations
      prompted by the tragedy and lawsuit revealed widespread corruption, whereby
      the Secretary of State’s staff exchanged licenses for bribes that
      went to the campaign of George Ryan. These federal investigations triggered
      Operation Safe Road, which required retesting for over 2,000 drivers using
      tainted licenses and netted 76 convictions, including that of former Governor
      of Illinois George Ryan. Joseph Power and Larry Rogers, Jr. obtained a
      record $100 million settlement for personal injury and wrongful death
      for a single-family.

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    • $95.4M Verdict

      Truck Accident

      $95,477,464 Million Verdict – Personal Injury, Double Leg Amputee– Joseph A. Power Jr., James Power

      Power Rogers attorneys Joseph A. Power, Jr., as lead counsel,
      and James Power recently secured a $95,477,464 million jury verdict for
      our client who suffered massive leg injuries that required a double above-the-knee
      amputation in 2014. Our client, a truck driver, was transporting carbon
      steel tubing. The crane operator at the delivery location attempted to
      unload the cargo, but because the tubing was improperly stacked and configured
      for unloading, one bundle of the tubing rolled out and crushed his legs,
      lacerating his right popliteal artery and fracturing his fibula and tibia.
      His right knee was amputated above the knee, and after his left leg developed
      a fungal infection, the doctors had to amputate that one above the knee
      as well. The jury awarded the Plaintiff $83,477,464 and his wife $12 million
      for a total of $95,477,464. This award was reduced 10% for the Plaintiff’s
      liability, making the total recoverable amount $86,429,717.60.

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    • $93M Recovery

      Aviation Accident, Product Liability, Drug Liability

      $93 Million Recovery – Aviation Accident– Brian LaCien, Jonathan M. Thomas

      Brian LaCien and Jonathan Thomas teamed up with Kreindler & Kreindler
      LLP of New York, NY to provide representation to a number of individuals
      who were involved in a commercial airplane crash. The litigation team
      recovered over $93 Million on behalf of their clients. Notable settlements
      included a $16,900,000 settlement on behalf of a 36-year-old female who
      suffered multiple fractures and ultimately required the amputation of
      her left leg; an $8,000,000 settlement on behalf of a 32-year-old female
      who suffered numerous cervical and lumbar vertebrae fractures requiring
      a posterior surgical fusion of C1-C2; a $7,500,000 settlement on behalf
      of a 54-year-old male who died as a result of the crash; a $5,800,000
      settlement for a 52-year-old female who suffered multiple vertebrae fractures
      causing nerve damage and requiring multiple past and future spinal surgeries,
      pain management, and rehabilitative therapy; and a $3,750,000 settlement
      for a 49-year-old woman who fractured her Th11 and Th12 vertebrae and
      required a surgical spinal fusion of the TH11 to L1 vertebrae.

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    • $91M Recovery

      Personal Injury

      $91 Million Recovery – Joseph A. Power, Jr., Larry R. Rogers, Jr. and James I. Power

      Joseph A. Power, Jr., Larry R. Rogers, Jr. and James I. Power of Power Rogers, LLP and Louis Berns of Favil David Berns & Associates reached an agreement to settle their client, C.E.G.’s, claims against 7-Eleven, Inc. for $91 million. The parties were scheduled to begin picking a jury on Monday, February 6, 2023 before the Honorable Judge Mary Minella. This is the largest pretrial recovery for a person injured in the history of the State of Illinois.

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    • $55.4M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $55.4 Million Verdict – Medical Malpractice, Brain Injury

      No. 96 L 05681
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Larry R. Rogers Sr.

      Medical Malpractice/Brain Injury: This case involved the failure to properly give oxygen or intubate and
      give oxygen to a 54-year-old-lady undergoing a bronchoscopic procedure
      and biopsy for possible tuberculosis which resulted in brain damage.
      This is the largest medical malpractice verdict in the history of the State
      of Illinois. Additionally, the loss of consortium of $15,000,000.00 to
      the husband is also the largest such award in the history of Illinois
      for that type of damage.

      JURY VERDICT: $55,439,269.59

      Offer prior to trial: $ 10,500,000.00

      Offer prior to verdict: $ 13,500,000.00

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    • $50M SETTLEMENT

      Personal Injury

      $50 Million Settlement – R.O. v. Confidential Defendants (2022)

      Power Rogers attorneys Joseph Power, Thomas Power, James Power and Dominic LoVerde recently secured $50,000,000.00 on behalf of their client who suffered serious
      injuries in an accident that occurred while trimming branches from a tree
      on his property, including severe burns and the loss of both arms and a
      leg. Joseph Power, Thomas Power, James Power and Dominic LoVerde.

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    • $47.5M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $47.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      14 L 12147
      – Devon C. Bruce

      S. v. Undisclosed Defendants

      This
      medical malpractice case was the largest reported settlement in Cook County in 2016. The plaintiff
      was a 4-year-old child who suffered serious injuries after his physicians
      failed to diagnose and treat a bacterial infection. Mr. Bruce is continuing
      to pursue the case against the remaining defendants in this case. Not
      only is this the largest medical malpractice settlement for any case in
      2016 in Cook County but one of the largest medical malpractice actions
      ever obtained.

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    • $40M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $40 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 2017 L 10109
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Joseph W. Balesteri

      12-year-old girl presented to a Local Community Hospital on October 18,
      2016. The employed hospitalists involved in her care and treatment failed
      to diagnose neck abscesses by CT scanning, failed to recognize her clinical
      deterioration and organ dysfunction due to infection and failed to timely
      transfer her to a children’s hospital. The employed interventional
      radiologist and otolaryngologist failed to perform a sedation assessment,
      failed to recognize a class IV airway, failed to recognize developing
      sepsis, failed to protect her airway before giving inappropriate sedation
      and failed to timely transfer her to a children’s hospital. These
      providers failed to recognize deep neck abscesses when treating mononucleosis
      and streptococcal infection leading to continued clinical deterioration.
      As a result, the minor suffered catastrophic irreversible neurologic injury
      due to a cardiorespiratory arrest. This is the largest settlement for a
      brain injured-minor in the history of the State of Illinois. Co-counsel with Joseph
      A. Power, Jr.

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    • $40M Recovery

      Contingent Commercial Litigation

      $40 Million Recovery – Accounting & Banking Malpractice

      No. 12 L12
      – Devon C. Bruce

      Contingent Commercial Litigation: This case involves the embezzlement of
      $53 million dollars from the City of Dixon. by Rita Crundwell, who served
      as comptroller and treasurer of Dixon, Illinois, from 1983 to April 2012.
      This was reported to be the largest embezzlement of a municipality in
      the history of the United States. Plaintiff, the City of Dixon, brought
      a negligence action against Clifton, Larsen, Allen, Fifth Third Bank and
      Janis Card & Associates. Clifton, Larsen, Allen was the accounting
      firm hired by the City of Dixon to perform the City’s annual audits
      throughout the time period of Rita Crundwell’s theft. Plaintiff
      alleged that Clifton was negligent in that it failed to discover the theft
      of the money during the performance of their annual audits. Clifton was
      further negligent in not reporting and/or investigating numerous irregularities
      in Rita Crundwell’s tax returns. Fifth Third Bank and its predecessor
      banks held multiple City of Dixon. accounts as well as a “secret”
      account improperly opened in the City of Dixon’s name by Rita Crundwell
      which she used to deposit the stolen City of Dixon’s funds. Rita
      Crundwell then used the account to pay for numerous personal items such
      as jewelry, automobiles and to finance her equestrian business. Plaintiff
      alleged that Fifth Third Bank was negligent in allowing Rita Crundwell
      to open the secret account and also failed to disclose the existence of
      this account in annual bank confirmations to the City’s accountants.
      Plaintiff alleged that Janis Card & Associates was negligent in failing
      to identify the theft and by entering into a joint venture with Clifton,
      Larsen, Allen to perform the City of Dixon audits after 2005.

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    • $39.9M Recovery

      Truck Accident,Car Accident,Wrongful Death

      $39.9 Million Recovery — Wrongful Death, Motor Vehicle Negligence, Trucking

      No. 00 CV 8448
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      Trucking/Wrongful Death: L., 43, was driving with his wife and children
      as passengers when he slowed down due to construction on the highway in
      Lafayette, Indiana. A truck struck him from behind, causing his car to
      burst into flames. L. sustained fatal injuries. He is survived by his
      wife and two minor children. His wife sustained facial fractures, a concussion,
      bone bruising, lacerations, and sprains. His daughter suffered second
      and third degree burns, requiring amputation of her left leg and the toes
      of her right foot. She also fractured multiple broken bones in her pelvis
      and fingers. L.’s son suffered second and third degree burns to his legs.

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    • $38.25M Settlement

      Truck Accident

      $38.25 Million Settlement – Trucking Negligence– Larry R. Rogers Jr.

      (2019) Trucking Negligence: This action arose out of a collision that occurred
      on September 24, 2017, on Interstate 80, near Mile Marker 29.0, in Chesterton,
      Indiana. The Defendant Driver, Individually and as an Agent and/or Employee
      of a local trucking company was driving a tractor trailer westbound on
      I-80 several vehicles behind Plaintiff’s vehicle on the roadway.
      Suddenly, the Defendant Driver struck the rear of another tractor trailer,
      causing it to jackknife into the rear of the Plaintiff’s vehicle,
      causing Plaintiffs vehicle to spin off of the roadway and onto the shoulder.
      Plaintiff, a 24-year old male, became trapped in the driver’s seat
      of his vehicle from the collision and suffered a traumatic fracture of
      his spinal cord resulting in lower extremity paralysis.

      Plaintiff was represented by partner, Larry Rogers Jr.

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    • $35M Recovery

      Birth Injury, Medical Malpractice

      $35 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Birth Injury

      14 L 2727
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Joseph W. Balesteri, Kathryn L. Conway

      Medical Malpractice/Birth Injury: On December 18, 2011, the Plaintiff Mother presented to the hospital
      for labor and delivery. Pitocin was administered at 7:30 p.m. to augment
      labor contractions. Fetal heart rate monitoring began at 7:30 p.m. and
      was normal and reassuring through 10 p.m. Plaintiffs’ alleged that
      the fetal monitoring tracings became non-reassuring and abnormal after
      10:00 p.m. through delivery at 12:28 a.m. the following morning. Plaintiffs
      contend that had Mom delivered between 10:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. on December
      18th, A. would have been neurologically normal. Because of the delay in
      delivering A., she suffered brain damage and resultant spastic quadriplegia,
      cerebral palsy and seizures. This settlement is a state record for a child
      injured at birth.

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    • $35M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $35 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice

      No. 2008 L 7156
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Devon C. Bruce

      Medical Malpractice/Brain Injury: Minor plaintiff at three months of age was intubated by defendant physician.
      Plaintiff alleges that defendant doctor and undisclosed hospital were
      negligent in the failure to intubate Dalian causing subglottic stenosis.
      The subglottic stenosis subsequently required the plaintiff to have a
      tracheostomy. In September of 2006, the minor plaintiff was hospitalized
      at a separate hospital when the tracheostomy tube occluded and caused
      an anoxic event. Plaintiff did not receive proper oxygenation for approximately
      12-15 minutes. Plaintiff alleged that the defendant failed to monitor
      the plaintiff while hospitalized.

      As a result of the anoxic event, plaintiff sustained permanent damage and
      is a spastic quadriplegic. He suffers from cortical blindness and requires
      a gastrostomy tube.

      This is one of the largest settlements in Illinois history.

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    • $33.4M Verdict

      Wrongful Death

      $33.4 Million Verdict – Wrongful Death, Negligent Security– Joseph A. Power Jr., James Power, Larry R. Rogers Jr.

      The Plaintiffs worked for a law firm in the large office building located
      at 500 West Madison Street. Allied Barton provided Security Services to
      the building. On December 8, 2006, a former client of the firm’s
      entered the 500 West Madison office building armed with a revolver, chain,
      padlock, hunting knife, and hammer in order to seek out and kill one of
      the attorneys who he mistakenly believed had wronged him. After loitering
      in the building’s lobby and being turned away by the security desk,
      the former client was permitted access to the law firm, located on an
      upper-level floor, by Allied Barton security. Once he had gained access
      to the law firm, he shot and killed three individuals and injured the
      fourth. Joseph A. Power, Jr. represented the Estate of M.M. and recovered
      $14.6 million for his client. Larry R. Rogers, Jr. represented the Estate
      of A.H. and secured an $11 million verdict for his client. James Power
      represented R.L. and secured a $5 million verdict.

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    • $30M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $30 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 11 L 10860
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: 46 year old male presents for a laparoscopic nephrectomy
      due to kidney cancer. During the procedure, aortic transection and ligation
      occurred with a stapling device which was not recognized by the healthcare
      practitioners until the patient’s transfer to an outside institution.
      Additionally, injuries to the right kidney were caused by a stapling device
      which had transected and ligated arteries to the right kidney. As a consequence,
      the Plaintiff is a paraplegic and requires permanent dialysis.

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    • $27.375MRecovery

      Truck Accident

      $27.375 Million Recovery – Trucking/Transportation Negligence– Joseph A. Power Jr., Kathryn L. Conway, James Power

      J.D., et al. v. Trucking Company and Steel Company (2019 – Northern
      District of Illinois District Court)

      Trucking/Transportation Negligence: A father (M-64), mother (F-43), and
      their only daughter (F-11) were rear-ended by defendants’ semi-tractor/trailer
      when its driver fell asleep on Interstate 55. All three were killed (the
      father was survived by two adult children from prior marriages and the
      mother was survived by her parents and siblings). Plaintiffs alleged that
      the trucker, who was acting under the defendant steel company’s direction,
      had routinely violated the hours of service and other federal regulations
      and as a result, according to a sleep expert, was chronically sleep-deprived,
      which contributed to cause the fatal crash. Joseph A. Power, Jr. co-counsel
      with Kathryn L. Conway and James I. Power.

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    • $27M Recovery

      Product Liability

      $27 Million Verdict — Product Liability

      D. and S. v. Syntex
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Larry R. Rogers Sr.

      Product Liability: This product liability case involving children who suffered
      brain damage as a result of baby formula.

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    • $23M Recovery

      Product Liability

      $23 Million Recovery — Negligence, Product Liability

      No. 08 L 2333
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Larry R. Rogers Sr., Brian LaCien

      Negligence: On February 22, 2008, Plaintiff AG’s legs became crushed
      in a paper baler at a factory owned and operated by Defendant factory
      owner and Defendant factory operator. Prior to injury, AG entered a large
      chute/tube, which feed the baler from above, to clear a jam by using the
      weight of his body. When the jam cleared, AG was caused to fall into the
      baler. He did not have fall protection at the time of the incident, nor
      did he have training on OSHA lockout/tagout procedures. After AG fell,
      the baler’s ram crushed his legs

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    • $23M Recovery

      Birth Injury

      $23 Million Recovery — Birth Injury, Brain Injury

      No. 11 L 3900
      – Thomas G. Siracusa, Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: Failure to treat high blood pressure caused by brain damage to mother.

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    • $23M Verdict

      Truck Accident

      $23 Million Verdict – Trucking Accident

      No. 08 L 6731
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Larry R. Rogers Sr.

      Trucking: Plaintiff was stopped at the Edens Spur ramp at the beginning of a construction
      zone back up on the Edens Expressway. He was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer
      owned by the defendants and operated by an employee and/or agent of the
      defendants who was traveling at least 65 m.p.h. The driver testified he
      applied his brakes prior to the collision, but did not have time to stop.
      He claimed he had just exited a curve. The collision occurred after 3,000
      feet of a straight roadway near the tail end of the Edens Spur. He sustained
      a C5-C6 tetraplegic injury.

      Prior to jury selection the Defendants admitted liability. This was accepted
      by the plaintiffs. Prior to trial, the defendants offered $10,000,000
      to settle. During the trial the defendants incrementally increased their
      offers to $15,000,000 and then $20,000,000. After closing arguments the
      defendants offered a high/low agreement of $25,000,000 – $50,000,000.

      JURY VERDICT: $23,000,000.00

      After a jury verdict of $23,000,000 the case settled under a high/low agreement
      entered into after closing arguments for
      $25,000,000.00.

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    • $21.6MVerdict

      Product Liability, Serious Injuries

      $21.6 Million Verdict – Product Liability, Traumatic Brain Injury

      14 L 10457
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Sean M. Houlihan, James Power

      Power Rogers attorneys Joseph A. Power Jr., as lead counsel, and Sean M.
      Houlihan and James Power recently obtained a $21.6 million dollar verdict
      on behalf of a truck driver and his wife. Our client suffered a traumatic
      brain injury after a defectively designed grab handle on his truck broke
      and caused him to fall. The case involved many disputes about jurisdiction
      and where the case was to be heard, and was recently featured in an article
      published by the
      Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

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    • $21M Recovery

      Birth Injury, Wrongful Death

      $21 Million Recovery — Wrongful Death, Birth Injury, Brain Injury

      No. 99 L 6539
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Larry R. Rogers Sr.

      Birth Injury/Medical Malpractice: Decedent was admitted to Trinity Hospital on February 8, 1998 at approximately
      5:30 a.m. at term. She was given an epidural anesthetic at approximately
      6:49 a.m. when her blood pressure dropped into the 70s and then into the
      50s. Fetal bradycardia was shortly thereafter detected on the fetal monitor
      and Decedent was place in Trendelenberg position. Dr. Jiha, the attending
      anesthesiologist, was paged at approximately 7:30 a.m. for low blood pressure.
      The nurse anesthetist continued to administer fluids including Ephedrine
      in order to correct the hypotension. A house doctor and obstetrician,
      Dr. Moreland, was called because of the fetal bradycardia on the monitor
      but she determined that a cesarean section was not necessary. Thereafter
      Decedent complained of being dizzy, vomited several times, became confused
      and cyanotic. At 7:45 a.m. Decedent’s blood pressure again dropped
      into the 70s and more fluids, including the Ephedrine, were given.

      According to Plaintiff’s experts Decedent’s blood pressures
      were abnormal for almost two hours. According to Plaintiff’s experts
      intubation was required much earlier and her oxygen status should have
      been monitored more closely. Additionally, earlier intubation was required
      and her oxygen status should have been monitored more closely along with
      a cesarean section operation at least an hour earlier. Decedent died after
      being in a coma for twelve weeks and her son was left permanently brain
      damaged and unable to care for himself.

      The case for the disabled minor son settled for $11,250,000.00 and the
      wrongful death action for his mother settled for $10,025,000.00.

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    • $20M Settlement

      Medical negligence/wrongful death

      $20 Million Settlement- P.C. v. Chicago Area Hospital (2023 – Cook County)

      – Joseph W. Balesteri, Kathryn L. Conway

      Medical negligence/wrongful death: 78 year-old female presented to Chicago area hospital with complaints of a severe 10/10, thunderclap headache. A CT scan was not timely obtained. Had it been, plaintiff alleged a subdural hemorrhage would have been timely identified and treated. Instead, the patient experienced ongoing headache and later incontinence and vomiting when the CT was obtained. Neurosurgical intervention was undertaken too late and the patient died due to extensive bleeding causing brain herniation.

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    • $20M Settlement

      Automotive Negligence

      $20 Million Settlement- A.H. v. D. Martin (2023 – Cook County)

      – Joseph W. Balesteri, Kathryn L. Conway

      Automotive Negligence: An 11-year old bicyclist was struck by a vehicle while crossing the street and sustained intracranial hemorrhages requiring a craniectomy and significant post-surgical therapy. A video of the crash was obtained by counsel shortly after the occurrence. The case settled prior to suit for the policy limits.

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    • $20M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $20 Million Verdict — Medical Malpractice, Brain Injury

      No. 98 L 5560
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: An immigrant woman underwent open heart surgery at
      the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center in 1997. It was alleged
      that the surgeon did not properly remove air from her heart after performing
      a bypass, causing her heart to suffer an air embolus that left her severely
      brain injured. She is now fed through a tube and communicates by writing
      on a chalk board.

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    • $19.2M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice, Brain Injuries

      $19.2 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice, Brain Injury

      No. 98 L 12545
      – Thomas G. Siracusa, Joseph W. Balesteri

      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.

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    • $19M Verdict

      Truck Accident, Wrongful Death

      $19 Million Verdict – Wrongful Death, Trucking Accident– Sean M. Houlihan

      Trucking: On September 13, 2011, on Interstate 80 westbound, 5 miles east of Grinnell
      Iowa, the plaintiff, a wrecker and tow truck driver for the for the Hanifen
      Company, Inc. of Des Moines, Iowa, was working to attach a disabled tractor
      trailer, a sequence of events with collisions of vehicles on the road’s
      edge/shoulder resulted in his death from being crushed between the disabled
      tractor and the rear of his tow-wrecker.

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    • $19MRecovery

      Birth Injury, Medical Malpractice

      $19 Million Recovery – Medical Negligence/Birth Injury

      No. 2016 L 002120
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Joseph W. Balesteri

      (2021) Medical Malpractice: Mom was a gestational diabetic who was advised
      to deliver her son in the 39th week gestation by a maternal fetal medicine consultant. Her prenatal care
      was provided by a midwife who was scheduled to deliver her son. After
      monitoring, cervical ripening and induction, the mid-wife and her supervising
      obstetrician determined that no cervical change was occurring and mom
      could go home to return in a few days for another induction (unless she
      went into labor in the interim). Plaintiff’s experts believe it
      was unsafe for mom to go home in light of her gestational diabetic risks
      to herself and her son and his large size as well as abnormalities they
      identified on fetal heart tracings during the initial scheduled induction.
      When mom returned, she was allowed to labor for hours prior to birth despite
      additional abnormalities on fetal heart tracings. Baby was born with imaging
      suggestive of an older brain injury and an acute brain injury. The defense
      argued that injury to the fetal brain occurred in the first trimester
      and thereafter. The midwife and supervising obstetrician were not employees
      of the local community hospital. The minor has spastic cerebral palsy
      and a major seizure disorder.

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    • $18.85M Recovery

      Aviation Accident, Product Liability, Drug Liability

      $18.85 Million – Product / Aviation– Brian LaCien

      Aviation/Product Liability: 20 year old male passenger in a small aircraft
      being piloted by a 20 year single male. Both individuals were traveling
      in the plane as part of the Aviation Program at their University. The
      aircraft became unflyable and crashed when the right cabin door completely
      opened during flight. The 20 year old pilot was burned over nearly 50%
      of his body due to the crash. The 20 year old passenger was severely burned
      and died days later. Due to jurisdictional concerns, causes of action
      had to be filed in several venues. Plaintiffs alleged that the locking
      system on the aircraft doors was defectively designed.

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    • $18.75M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $18.75 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice

      No. 07 L 7771
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: The Plaintiff, 51 year old man, experienced quadriplegia
      following cervical disc surgery due to failure of nurses to communicate
      post-operative neurologic changes due to spinal cord compression to his
      neurosurgeon in a timely fashion.

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    • $18.5M Recovery

      Car Accident

      $18.5 Million Recovery – Car Accident

      No. 10 L 11309
      – Brian LaCien

      Car Accident: G.C. was an extra in the movie production of Transformers:
      Dark Side of the Moon. On September 1, 2010, G.C. was driving her own
      car along with 70-100 other vehicles on Cline Avenue in Hammond, Indiana
      during filming of the aforesaid movie. During filming, a stunt was performed
      in which an explosion followed by a stunt car being violently flipped
      over. The cable pulling the car broke free from the stunt car along with
      a large iron bracket, which was propelled across lanes of traffic into
      G.C.’s car windshield and then her head.

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    • $18.5M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $18.5 Million Verdict — Medical Malpractice

      No. 85 L 3581
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      Medical Malpractice: A 36-year-old man became paralyzed on his left side as a result of a
      stroke. His family physician and emergency room doctor were found to be
      negligent in failing to diagnose subacute bacterial endocarditis. This
      is the largest medical negligence verdict in Illinois history and the
      largest in the U.S. in 1991 according to the National Law Journal. This
      verdict was reduced $2,238,141.00 for economic damages awarded above the
      present cash value of lost earnings and future attendant care needs found
      in the evidence or requested by plaintiff at trial.
      At the time this case was the largest verdict ever affirmed on appeal in Illinois.

      JURY VERDICT: $18,500,000.00

      Offer: $200,000.00

      Affirmed on Appeal 92-2262 268 Ill.App.3d 1051, 645 N.E.2d 284 (1994).

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    • $18M Settlement

      Medical negligence/wrongful death

      $18 Million Settlement- E.W. v. Chicago Area Hospital and Surgeon (2023 – Cook County)

      – Joseph W. Balesteri, Kathryn L. Conway

      Medical negligence/wrongful death: 67 year-old male underwent elective surgery to remove a previously placed orthopedic spinal cage that had become dislodged. Plaintiff alleged the access surgeon negligently caused vessel injury upon retractor placement. Thereafter, Plaintiff alleged that the access surgeon and hospital staff failed to timely recognize, address, and correct resultant vessel bleeding, causing patient’s death due to exsanguination hours after the surgery concluded.

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    • $18M Recovery

      Birth Injury, Medical Malpractice

      $18 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice, Brain Injury

      No. 99 L 13178
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Larry R. Rogers Sr.

      Birth Injury/Medical Malpractice: This case involved a pregnant mother who presented to Trinity Hospital
      shortly after midnight on January 1, 1995, with an elevated systolic blood
      pressure, edema and protein in her urine. The nurses as well as the physician,
      Dr. Everett A. White, failed to diagnose preeclampsia. She labored from
      approximately midnight on January 1st until 12:45 p.m. when she had an eclamptic seizure. Her child, R., was
      delivered at 1:19 p.m. with very low APGARS and a cord blood gas indicating
      she suffered from hypoxia and ischemia. She remained depressed for approximately
      thirty-six more minutes due to the failure to adequately resuscitate her.
      As a result, R. sustained brain damage and is currently institutionalized.

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    • $17.5M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $17.5 Million Recovery- Medical Malpractice

      08 L 5522
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      Minor Plaintiff was born with a heart that was not formed properly. Doctors
      picked up an irregular heart beat prior to her birth. Plaintiff alleges
      Defendant doctors failed to properly admit her into the hospital and failed
      to properly monitor her resulting in her death at approximately 8 months of age.

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    • $17.5MRecovery

      Bicycle Accidents

      $17.5 Million Recovery – Bicycle Accident

      17 L 469
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,James Power

      D.P. v. Sucha Singh, et al. – 17 L 469

      Founding partner,
      Joseph A. Power Jr., along with Attorneys
      James Power and Kurt Ensign, secured a $17.5 million recovery for the victim of a
      bike accident who suffered amputation and other serious injuries as a result of trucker
      negligence. The case will go down as the largest bike accident recovery
      in Illinois history to date.

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    • $17.25M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $17.25 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      00 L 3444
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice/Brain Injury: Doctors at Christ Hospital Medical Center
      did not monitor M.’s anticoagulant treatment closely enough during
      rehabilitation treatment in 1998. She suffered a heart attack, which left
      her permanently brain damaged.

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    • $17M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $17 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice

      98 L 13165
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      On March 27, 1997, 8 month old K. had a malfunction of his ventricular
      shunt in place since one month of age for congenital hydrocephalus. He
      had undergone shunt revision in January. The revision was performed by
      a resident despite the family’s request for an attending neurosurgical
      physician. Upon surgical intervention in March, a portion of the shunt
      was found to have broken away and lodged in the frontal lobe. The shunt
      failure was attributed by Plaintiff to an improper surgical technique
      resulting in a cut and separation of the shunt. The child suffered severe
      brain damage as a result.

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    • $16.9M Recovery

      Aviation Accident,Drug Liability

      $16.9 Million Recovery– Aviation– Brian LaCien,Jonathan M. Thomas

      A 36-year-old female passenger who suffered multiple fractures and ultimately
      required the amputation of her left leg after a commercial airplane crash.

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    • $16M Recovery

      Truck Accident,Wrongful Death

      $16 Million Recovery — Wrongful Death, Trucking

      07 L 1922
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Sean M. Houlihan

      The case involved the wrongful death of S., who was a 47 year old auto
      worker, who was returning home from work on the evening of October 16,
      2004, when he was killed while operating his motor vehicle southbound
      along Indiana’s I-465 within the city limits of Indianapolis, Indiana.
      A tractor-trailer operated by Tadeusz Strojny was also traveling in the
      middle lane of the southbound traffic along I- 465. Mr. Strojny’s
      tractor-trailer struck S.’s vehicle from behind, propelling and
      pinning it along the I- 465’s median wall. S. was unable to escape
      his vehicle and died as a result of his injuries.

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    • $16MRecovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $16 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 2014 L 012688
      – Joseph W. Balesteri,Kathryn L. Conway

      Mom’s active phase of labor was less than two hours when Dr. Thorpe
      placed a vacuum on the baby’s head in an effort to extricate him
      without maternal or fetal threat. The initial cup used was a Kiwi Pro
      Cup, which is designed for occiput anterior positioning, however the fetal
      head position was occiput posterior. The cup popped-off and Dr. Thorpe
      next applied a Kiwi Omni cup which also popped-off after traction. The
      cups were placed at 0 to +1 station (mid-pelvis) and were not properly
      positioned at the flexion point. Because of vacuum use, the baby suffered
      a focal arterial stroke due to occlusion of blood flow in the right middle
      cerebral artery. The minor plaintiff is disabled and has permanent and
      severe injuries.

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    • $15.7M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $15.7 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice

      03 L 9289
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Larry R. Rogers Jr.

      On February 13, 2002, H. presented to Dr. Lopes at Rush University for
      a second opinion on treatment of an unruptured, small (3×5 cm), left internal
      carotid artery aneurysm. Dr. Lopes recommended that H. undergo a neuro-interventional
      coiling procedure whereby a micro-catheter would be inserted. H. agreed
      and on February 20, 2002, Dr. Lopes performed the procedure at Rush University.
      Within an hour of the procedure, H. was documented as experiencing nausea,
      vomiting and headache. She subsequently arrested and after being resuscitated
      was taken for an emergent CT scan where an intracerebral hemorrhage was
      diagnosed. Despite emergency surgery, H. was left profoundly brain damaged.

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    • $15M Recovery

      Wrongful Death

      $15 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      10 L 14666
      – Thomas G. Siracusa

      Power Rogers recovers $15 million for radiation overdose.

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    • $15MRecovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $15 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 2018 L 006620
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      N.G. v. A Local Academic Medical Center,

      (2020) Medical Malpractice: While undergoing surveillance for a previous
      history of a ruptured brain aneurysm on a 55-year-old female, a recurrent
      aneurysm was identified on cerebral angiography. About one month later,
      a decision was made by neuro-interventionalists to attempt a balloon test
      occlusion (an additional diagnostic study). During the study the balloon
      test was not performed as the lesion could not be crossed. Following the
      procedure, signs and symptoms should have revealed to the team that a
      perioperative stroke may be occurring. A code stroke team was not timely
      called despite neurologic signs and symptoms following the procedure.
      As a result, brain injury occurred due to a perioperative stroke including
      but not limited to permanent difficulties with walking, arm strength,
      hearing, speech and dizziness. Plaintiff’s experts opined that the
      additional diagnostic procedure was unnecessary as the aneurysm should
      have been coiled and a code stroke team should have responded timely.

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    • $14.9M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $14.9 Million Verdict — Medical Malpractice

      05 L 1137

      On April 8, 2003, Plaintiff underwent a radical open anterior and posterior
      syovectomy for a rare knee disease. She underwent the surgery at VHS
      Subsidiary Number 3, Inc. d/b/a Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital. The
      surgery was performed by the attending physician, who was not an employee
      of VHS Subsidiary Number 3, Inc. d/b/a Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital.
      The Plaintiff and her expert did not contend that the attending was liable
      for compartment syndrome, which was a risk of the procedure. Upon examination
      immediately following surgery, Plaintiff had no complications and a normal
      neurovascular status. Into the night of April 8, 2003 and morning of April
      9, 2003, Plaintiff repeatedly complained of pain below her knee and in
      her foot and had an abnormal neurovascular status. In response to her
      complaints, she was given repeated doses of pain medication and her dosage
      of medication was increased. The attending Physician was never contacted
      about Plaintiff’s complaints or abnormal neurovascular status. Upon
      examination by the attending physician, at around 6:30 AM, Plaintiff was
      diagnosed to have compartment syndrome. Shortly thereafter, the attending
      physician performed a fasciotomy surgery to treat the compartment syndrome
      by relieving the pressure caused by the compartment syndrome. In the weeks
      following the initial fasciotomy surgery, Plaintiff required several debridements
      due to necrotic muscle and tissue below her knee. As a result of the debridements
      and prolonged compartment syndrome, Plaintiff lost approximately 90% of
      the muscle in her lower extremity, has foot drop and severe nerve dysfunction.

      Last Offer: $2,500,000.00

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    • $14.2M Verdict

      Wrongful Death,Construction Accident

      $14.2 Million Verdict — Wrongful Death, Construction

      No. 00 L 4797
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      On December 22, 1999, United/Goedecke Services, Inc. was lifting a 25 foot
      I-bar utilizing a hoist called a tugger when the 25 foot I-bar fell 110
      feet, striking and killing R. R. was the signalman, directing a 25 foot
      I-bar up the tugger bay. The plaintiff alleged the defendant was negligent
      in failing to more securely attach the I-bar as it was lifted up the tugger
      bay. The defendant claimed that R. never should have been in the tugger
      bay, under a load, while it was being lifted and should have used a radio
      next to the tugger operator and outside the bay as a safer, more effective
      means of communicating. They also claimed R. adjusted the sling, altering
      the cinch point which was responsible for it falling upon him.

      Reduced 35% to: $9,250,000.00

      Offer prior to Trial: $1,500,000.00

      Offer after Closing Argument: $2,500,000.00

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    • $13.5M Verdict

      Car Accident,Motorcycle Accidents

      $13.5 Million Verdict — Motor Vehicle Negligence

      97 L 16158

      On October 12, 1997, R. was run over by a commercial boat named the Sea
      Dog, near Oak Street Beach in Chicago, Illinois. It was almost six weeks
      after the swimming season was over and the beaches were closed.

      The plaintiffs argued the vessel came too close to shore, failed to keep
      a proper look-out and that the defendant failed to properly train its
      captains in the rules of the U.S. Coast Guard as well as its own rules.

      The defense argued that with the swimming season over and the Chicago beaches
      had been closed for almost six weeks it was unforeseeable that there would
      be a swimmer in the water over fifty yards from shore, with a 60 degree
      water temperature, three to five foot waves and a small craft advisory.
      A Chicago Park District rule prohibits swimming over 50 yards off shore.

      Prior to the trial commencing the defendants offered $3,000,000.00. During
      jury selection the defendants offered $5,000,0000.00. It was suggested
      the offer would never exceed that amount which was equal to the largest
      amount ever awarded for a below the knee amputation. After opening statements
      and after three witnesses testified for the plaintiffs the defendants
      increased their offer to $6,500,000.00. This was the figure the trial
      judge recommended to settle the case. These offers were rejected by the
      plaintiffs.

      Reduced 20%: $10,800,000.00

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    • $13M Recovery

      Birth Injury,Medical Malpractice

      $13 Million Recovery— Medical Malpractice

      No. 00 L 008622
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Larry R. Rogers Sr.

      The defendants allegedly hyperstimulated a pregnant woman’s uterus
      with labor-inducing medication and failed to recognize signs and symptoms
      of fetal distress, causing the woman’s newborn girl to suffer brain
      damage due to an inadequate flow of oxygen and blood to the brain, resulting
      in cerebral palsy.

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    • $13M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $13 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice– Thomas M. Power,Joseph W. Balesteri

      This
      medical malpractice case involved the failure to test for tuberculosis.

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    • $12.8M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $12.8 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice, Failure to DiagnoseThis medical malpractice cause involved the failure to diagnose Compartment Syndrome.
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    • $12.5M Recovery

      Birth Injury,Medical Malpractice

      $12.5 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice

      04 L 4942
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      This case involved the failure to diagnose bradycardia of an in-P., a term
      mother, was inadequately monitored by hospital personnel during her labor
      and delivery course and bradycardia in her baby was not timely detected.
      The delay in delivery of her daughter resulted in her suffering permanent
      severe choreoathetoid cerebral palsy.

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    • $12.5M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

      $12.5 Million Recovery — Wrongful Death, Hospital Negligence

      98 L 14847
      – Larry R. Rogers Jr.

      As a result of a shooting, S., a minor, sustained a puncture to his aorta,
      mesenteric vein as well as the colon. He walked as far as he could on
      to Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center property. S. was within fifty (50)
      feet of the Ravenswood Hospital door, when security of Ravenswood Hospital
      was notified of his need of assistance. A nurse employed by Ravenswood
      Hospital opted to leave Christopher untreated, as their policy was not
      to go outside the hospital building to assist the injured. He was left
      to bleed from these injuries for approximately 25 minutes and after he
      had been transported to the Emergency Room by the police officers he had
      a barely palpable pulse. Within two minutes of arriving in the Emergency
      Room he arrested.

      This is the record settlement in Illinois for the wrongful death of a minor
      involving hospital negligence.

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    • $12.25M Recovery

      Birth Injury,Medical Malpractice

      $12.25 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice

      98 L 0081
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Thomas G. Siracusa

      This case settled for a Lake County record of
      $12,250,000.00 prior to closing argument before Judge Terrence Brady on Friday evening
      after the jury instruction conference.

      On March 29, 1996, C. paged her obstetrician complaining of a splitting
      headache at 4:00 p.m. He told her to go the emergency room. She and her
      husband arrived at 4:45 p.m. and saw the emergency room physician at 5:15
      p.m. He diagnosed preeclampsia and spoke to the obstetrician between 5:25
      and 5:50 p.m. The emergency room physician testified she needed an anti-hypertensive
      for preeclampsia with hypertension but the obstetrician told him to send
      her to Labor & Delivery and he would call in his orders. The obstetrician
      ordered over the phone magnesium sulfate at 5:50 p.m. which is a prophylactic
      for seizures and reduces blood pressure transiently but did not order
      hydralazine, an anti-hypertensive. According to one of the plaintiffs’
      expert, C. hemorrhaged into her brain between 6:00 to 6:20 p.m. when she
      started to become less coherent. In addition to suffering from preeclampsia
      with hypertension C. had HELLP syndrome which made her blood difficult
      to clot. According to another expert it was negligent not to give C. an
      anti-hypertensive in the E.R. The baby, Shane, was born healthy, without
      any medical problems.

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    • $12M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $12 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice

      99 L 746
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Joseph W. Balesteri

      In February 1997, O., following the birth of her daughter, was diagnosed
      with post-partum cardiomyopat­hy, a condition which could result in
      blood clot formation in the heart leading to embolic stroke(s). O. was
      provided Coumadin, a blood thinner, as her ejection fraction was less
      than 35%. The Defendants were responsible for blood work monitoring (INR
      assessment) and management of Coumadin. On August 20, 1997, O. suffered
      a stroke from a hemorrhagic bleed. Plaintiffs alleged that O. was over
      anti-coagulated (her INR was 3.8 after the bleed) and argued that the
      standard of care required lesser levels of anticoagulati­on (INR 2
      to 3) than the range established by the defendants (INR 2.5 to 3.5). O.’s
      hemorrhagic stroke caused left-sided hemipares­is. The defense contended,
      because of an earlier presumed embolic attack in May, the defendant physicians
      were permitted by the standard of care to have a higher INR than the standard
      2 to 3, to prevent another emboli. Additionally, they contended in Europe
      the INR is typically as high as 5.

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    • $12M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice,Brain Injuries

      $12 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice, Brain Injury

      04 L 13358
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      D. is a 44 year old female who went into the hospital to be treated for
      left ankle pain. At approximately 11:45 a.m., during an elective biopsy
      procedure, the patient was turned from the supine position to the prone
      position. She became hypoxic and her heart beat slowed to a bradycardic
      level with no pulse. The anesthesiologist, Dr. Rashidi Gani Loya, noticed
      the patient was turning blue. This is a late sign of hypoxia. She had
      the patient flipped back to the supine position and started ambu bagging
      her. The orthopedic doctor started chest compressions on the patient.
      He then started to perform manual ventilation with the ambu bag as well
      as chest compressions. Unfortunately, the patient had gone so long without
      oxygen she had sustained anoxic encephalopathy and permanent brain damage.

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    • $12M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $12 Million Recovery— Medical Malpractice

      04 L 306
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      R. was admitted to Provena Covenant Medical Center for labor and delivery.
      She had an epidural injection performed for pain control during labor
      by Ted Dziadek, MD, an anesthesiologist. The epidural test dose contained
      Sufenta and was therefore an improper test dose since Sufenta can result
      in respiratory compromise if administered in the subarachnoid space (a
      risk of an epidural injection). The test dose was administered in the
      subarachnoid space as evidenced by air bubbles present on CT imaging of
      R.=s brain after the injection. R. experienced immediate post-injection
      signs of respiratory deterioration and her healthcare team (labor and
      delivery nurse and anesthesiologist Ted Dziadek) failed to timely respond
      to her respiratory deterioration. She was not ambu-bagged for 15 minutes
      after the epidural, CPR was not started for 17 minutes following her epidural.
      There were varying opinions between the healthcare providers regarding
      whether or not needed resuscitation equipment was present in the room
      to assist in resuscitation. Tim’s baby was born without neurologic
      injury. Tim Ravanh was left catastrophically brain damaged.

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    • $11.9M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $11.9 Million Verdict — Medical Malpractice

      90 L 411
      – Larry R. Rogers Sr.

      A 29-year-old employee of UHS of Bethesda, Inc. a/k/a Mount Sinai Hospital-North,
      was diagnosed as having migraine headaches and returned to work by a physician
      who examined him at the hospital on two separate occasions. A week after
      the last visit he had suffered a thrombosis which resulted in a stroke
      and left sided hemiplegia from polycythemia rubra vera which went undiagnosed.
      The jury found the defendants negligent for not performing a CBC on either
      visit which would have led to the diagnosis and that the physician was
      an agent of the hospital.
      This is the highest personal injury verdict in Illinois for 1995.

      Offer before trial: $1,000,000.00

      Offer during trial: $1,600,000.00

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    • $11.5M Recovery

      Aviation Accident,Product Liability,Drug Liability

      $11.5 Million Recovery — Airplane Accident

      No. 95 L 2685
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      Aviation: J., 28, wife and mother of two small boys, was on
      USAir Flight 427 when it crashed in Aliquippa, PA on September 10, 1994, killing
      127 passengers and five crew members. Extensive discovery uncovered a
      defect in the rudder system of the Boeing 737-300.

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    • $11M Recovery

      Birth Injury,Medical Malpractice

      $11.5 Million Recovery – Birth Injury, Medical Malpractice

      No. 05 L 2876
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Thomas G. Siracusa

      Birth Injury/Medical Malpractice: This case involved a water birth in which
      just prior to delivery shoulder dystocia occurred. Shoulder dystocia is
      where due to the large size of the D. M.’s shoulders his mother,
      C. M., was unable to deliver the baby vaginally without various maneuvers.
      This occurred when C. M. was still in the tub. Because they were unable
      to empty the tub as quickly as needed they attempted to deliver the baby
      in the tub. As a result, she was unable to perform the appropriate maneuvers
      that were recommended for shoulder dystocia. Due to the delay in delivery
      Plaintiff contended that D. M. became brain damaged and has suffered severe
      and significant injuries.

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    • $11.5M Recovery

      Birth Injury,Medical Malpractice

      $11.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      05 L 2876
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Thomas G. Siracusa

      This case involved a water birth in which just prior to delivery shoulder
      dystocia occurred. Shoulder dystocia is where due to the large size of
      the D. M.’s shoulders his mother, C. M., was unable to deliver the
      baby vaginally without various maneuvers. This occurred when C. M. was
      still in the tub. Because they were unable to empty the tub as quickly
      as needed they attempted to deliver the baby in the tub. As a result,
      she was unable to perform the appropriate maneuvers that were recommended
      for shoulder dystocia. Due to the delay in delivery Plaintiff contended
      that D. M. became brain damaged and has suffered severe and significant injuries.

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    • $11M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $11 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice

      No. 2019 L 012354
      – Joseph W. Balesteri,Kathryn L. Conway

      Medical Malpractice: 38-year-old female presented to Local Community Hospital
      with complaints of abdominal pain, vaginal bleeding, a recent positive
      pregnancy test, and a history that her pregnancy had passed into the toilet
      days earlier. She underwent laparoscopic surgery for an “ectopic
      pregnancy.” During and after the surgery (there was no evidence
      of pregnancy days later at pathology rather infection), she was never
      given an antibiotic although ordered pre-operatively. She was discharged
      without antibiotics and without communication of her abnormal vital signs
      to the surgeon. She re-presented to the ER 12 hours later, underwent exploratory
      surgery to look for bleeding (none), experienced septic shock and died
      from a septic miscarriage.

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    • $10.43M Verdict

      Truck Accident,Car Accident,Motorcycle Accidents

      $10.43 Million Verdict — Motor Vehicle Negligence, Paralysis

      C. v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., et al.
      – Larry R. Rogers Sr.,Larry R. Rogers Jr.

      Trucking: A 71 year old African-American man was injured on July 25, 1995
      when a semi-tractor trailer owned by Chicago & Northwestern Railway
      Co. and Union Pacific Railroad Co. pulled from a stop sign at a T-intersection
      in Northlake in front of a truck traveling eastbound in which plaintiff
      was a passenger. He suffered a spinal cord injury which left him with
      incomplete paralysis in his arms and legs.

      Jury Verdict: $10,430,617.92

      Offer before trial: $1,600,000.00

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    • $10.425M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $10.425 Million Verdict

      Calbert v. Advocate Healthcare, et al
      – 09 L 1448 (Cook County)

      Medical malpractice verdict. Our client, C. Calbert, visited Advocate South Suburban Hospital because he had diarrhea for several days. Eleven days later, he was taken into surgery. To compensate for the drop in blood pressure he was experiencing, the patient was administered Levophed, a vasopressor medication. After surgery, he was instructed to slowly be taken off Levophed and switched to Neosynephrine, but only if his blood pressure dropped below 100. According to the plaintiffs, in the days immediately following his surgery, the ICU nurses did not perform the necessary testing on the arterial line – the line being used to monitor blood pressure. Because they were not testing the correct lien, there was a false read of low blood pressure. Because they detected low blood pressure, the staff gave the patient maximum doses of vasopressors, which he did not actually need. The overdose ultimately caused ischemia that necessitating amputation of his left arm and all of his toes.

      Co-counsel with Larry R. Rogers, Sr., and Larry R. Rogers, Jr.

      Verdict: $10,425,000.00

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    • $10.4M Verdict

      Truck Accident,Car Accident,Motorcycle Accidents

      $10.4 Million Verdict — Motor Vehicle Negligence

      C., et al v. Transport Carriers, Inc., et al.
      – Larry R. Rogers Sr.,Brian LaCien

      Trucking/Wrongful Death: The accident involved an International tractor
      which lost control on the ramp exiting the Chicago Skyway leading to the
      Day Ryan on July 1, 1999. The International tractor was being driven by
      Jesse Blackmon of Transport Carriers, Inc. After Mr. Blackmon lost control
      on the ramp, the Nissan Van being operated by plaintiff, attempted to
      avoid striking the Blackmon tractor and was rear-ended by a truck operated
      by Robert Lachowski of American Shipping and Packing. C. was traveling
      with his wife and children, 9 years old, 3 years old, and 9 months old.
      C. died as a result of his injuries.

      Jury Verdict: $10,400,000.00

      Offer before trial: $500,000.00

      Offer during trial: $1,700,000.00

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    • $10.3M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $10.3 Recovery – Medical Malpractice– Larry R. Rogers Sr.,Larry R. Rogers Jr.,Carolyn S. Daley

      (2014)
      Medical malpractice. On September 4, 2007, Plaintiff presented to Advocate South Suburban
      Hospital after experiencing several days of diarrhea. He was admitted
      and taken to surgery on September 15th and during the surgery, he was
      administered the vasopressor medication Levophed for a drop in his blood
      pressure. Post-operatively, a consulting cardiologist ordered that the
      Levophed be weaned off and he be given Neosynephrine if his systolic blood
      pressure dropped below 100. Plaintiffs maintained that from September
      15 – 17, the ICU nursing staff failed to perform dynamic response testing
      on the arterial line that was being used to evaluate Plaintiff’s blood
      pressure and as a result it was falsely reading systolic blood pressures
      below 100 when his true blood pressures were higher. As a result the nursing
      staff was administering maximum doses of vasopressors when he needed little
      if any. The excessive vasopressors caused vasoconstriction in his blood
      vessels and poor perfusion to his extremities causing them to become ischemic
      from lack of blood flow. As a result of the poor perfusion caused by the
      vasopressors, Plaintiff ‘s left hand, and the toes on both of his
      feet became ischemic, necrotic, gangrenous and needed to be amputated.
      The defense maintained that Plaintiff was a very sick man who was in septic
      shock with 5 system multi-organ failure and the poor perfusion was the
      result of a coagulopathy cascade caused by the sepsis and the body’s
      native shunting of blood to vital organs for survival. The defense maintained
      that Plaintiff desperately needed the vasopressors to survive his life
      threatening condition and but for the high doses of vasopressors, he would
      have died.

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    • $10M Settlement

      Medical negligence/wrongful death

      $10 Million Settlement- A.M. v. Chicago Area Hospital (2023 – Cook County)

      – Joseph W. Balesteri, Kathryn L. Conway

      Medical negligence/wrongful death: 71-year old female presented to Chicago area hospital with chest pain, back pain, and fever. She had recently undergone chemotherapy for treatment of leukemia. While an inpatient at the hospital, she suffered an unwitnessed fall, resulting in a subdural hematoma. This brain bleed and its sequalae caused her death 2 weeks later. Plaintiff alleged that decedent was a moderate fall risk by objective and subjective measurement and additionally was at high risk for bleeding due to her thrombocytopenia (low platelets) from cancer and chemotherapy. Plaintiff alleged that the bed alarm was not properly set and that had fall precautions been implemented, Decedent’s fall and resultant injury and death would have been avoided.

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    • $10M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $10 Million Verdict – Medical Malpractice

      No. 10 L 5087
      – Larry R. Rogers Sr.

      Medical Malpractice: The mother of the deceased minor child delivered twins
      at 34 weeks at MacNeal Hospital by C-section. D., one of the twins, was
      diagnosed with a respiratory problem known as esophageal atresia with
      lower tracheoesophageal fistula. They diagnosed the condition on 11/15/06,
      ran tests on 11/16/06 and told family that on 11/17/06 they were going
      to attempt to reattach the esophagus to the stomach and address a fistula
      between the esophagus and lung. The family was told it would be 2-3 hours
      surgery, but after waiting 6 hours, they still had not heard anything.
      Finally they were told the problem was more difficult than anticipated
      and that they were waiting a specialist. Plaintiff’s investigation
      revealed that in fact a medical error occurred during the procedure. Instead
      of incising the fistula as intended, the surgeon transected the child’s
      bronchial tube to the lung and caused the lung to collapse. After the
      surgery, the child was on a ventilator and hospitalized until he ultimately
      died from his injuries.

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      Medical Malpractice

      $10 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice– Joseph A. Power Jr.,Joseph W. Balesteri

      (2017)
      Medical Malpractice: 55 year old married female presented for removal of her esophagus due
      to difficulty swallowing and regurgitation. During the procedure, Surgicel
      was utilized but was not removed ultimately migrating into her spinal
      canal compromising her spinal cord, which resulted in paraplegia and a
      neurogenic bladder and bowel. When imaging was ordered due to symptoms,
      the imaging was delayed, thereby delaying spinal cord decompression. Co-counsel
      with Joseph A. Power Jr.

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    • $10M Recovery

      Wrongful Death

      $10 Million Recovery – Wrongful Death– Joseph A. Power Jr.,Carolyn S. Daley

      D.W., Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of C.A, deceased v. Apex Mortgage Corporation, et al, 11 L 8438

      Wrongful death settlement. This cause of action arose from the injuries and subsequent death of C.A., a 34 year old City of Chicago Firefighter, resulting from a building collapse at 1738-1744 E. 75th Street in the City of Chicago on December 22, 2010. The Property was purchased by Defendants CHUCK DAI and RICHARD DAI and Defendant APEX MORTGAGE CORP., held the Mortgage Security Agreement for the Property. In 2008, the mortgage on the Property was in default and APEX MORTGAGE CORP. began discussions with the Dais to accept a deed in lieu of foreclosure. After receiving the signed deed in lieu of foreclosure documents from the Dais, Apex hired a real estate broker to assess the Property, change the locks, clean out the Property, and board up the Property.

      Upon inspection, the real estate broker determined that the Property was in poor condition. Apex subsequently made a Property loss claim with its insurance company that it had force placed insurance for a partial roof collapse. The Property loss claim was subsequently denied and Apex was provided with an engineer’s report of the Property from the insurance company which stated that the condition of the roof was a result of chronic lack of maintenance and total rotting having occurred of the roof beams. Throughout this time period, Apex was a defendant in a City of Chicago Housing Court case for the Property and was aware of the numerous code violations, including structural concerns with the roof and the walls at the Property.

      On December 22, 2010, at about 6:52am, a small rubbish fire occurred in the Property and the Chicago Fire Department responded. Firefighters, including C.A., forced entry into the Property to determine there were people inside the Property. While inside the Property, the east wall failed causing a total collapse of the timber truss roof onto firefighters, including C.A. As a result of the collapse of the timber truss roof, C.A. suffered severe and permanent injuries resulting in his death on December 22, 2010.

      Plaintiff alleged that Apex had taken possession and control of the Property beginning in 2008. Apex was aware of the severe and dangerous structural problems and code violations at the Property, but it failed to do anything to remedy any of the conditions at the Property putting every person who walked into the Property in harm’s way, including Firefighter C.A. on December 22, 2010.

      Firefighter C.A. left surviving him his wife, D.W., and their son, who was one years old at the time of C.A.’s death.

      Co-counsel with Joseph A. Power, Jr.

      Settlement: $10,000,000.00

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    • $10MRecovery

      Civil Litigation

      $10 Million Recovery – Civil Litigation

      17 L 2841
      – Larry R. Rogers Jr.,Jonathan M. Thomas

      Power Rogers Attorneys Larry R. Rogers Jr. and Jonathan M. Thomas secured
      a $10M settlement on behalf of a man who was shot in the back and paralyzed
      by a Chicago Police Officer in 2012. Prior to the settlement, officers
      involved in the encounter claimed the Plaintiff had pointed a firearm
      at an officer, and were honored by the City of Chicago for their heroic
      efforts. However, an investigation revealed that while the Plaintiff did
      have a firearm on his person at the time of the incident, there were no
      fingerprints on the gun, and no bullet chambered.

      A $10,000,000.00 settlement was approved by the City Council of the City
      of Chicago on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 to compensate Plaintiff for
      the life-altering injuries he sustained as a result of the willful and
      wanton conduct of the City of Chicago’s Police Department, and specifically
      the same officers who received awards for their conduct in 2013.

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    • $10M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $10 Million Verdict — Medical Malpractice

      No. 01 L 11847
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: Two day old infant with Down Syndrome underwent surgery
      for bowel obstruction. A central venous catheter was incorrectly placed
      and allowed administered fluid to penetrate the heart wall resulting in
      cardiac arrest and permanent and severe brain injury.

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    • $9.8M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

      $9.8 Million Verdict — Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Failure to Diagnose

      No. 85 L 11905
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      Medical Malpractice: 39-year-old lady died as a result of the failure of
      a physician to perform a spinal tap which would have resulted in the diagnosis
      and treatment of a subarachnoid hemorrhage and aneurysm.
      At the time, this was the largest wrongful death verdict in Illinois history. The decedent left a husband and two children.

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    • $9.75M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $9.75 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice, Paralysis

      No. 00 L 013478
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff, a former professor at Loyola University
      of Chicago, on April 20, 1999, went into Evanston Hospital for a decompressive
      laminectomy for severe cervical stenosis. Prior to the surgery he ambulated
      with a cane. On April 20th, there was an attempted C6 vertebrectomy for decompression of the spinal
      cord at the C5-6 level and the C6-7 level. Plaintiffs contended osteophytes
      left behind created internal stress to the spinal cord which affected
      the blood flow to the cord and its function. The large osteophytes left
      behind at C5 on the right side tethered the cord at the exit point as
      well as at C6-C7 leaving persistent compression and quadriparesis. The
      defense experts claimed it was within the standard of care to leave the
      osteophytes because removing them often leads to paralysis with someone
      with a severe stenosis as the plaintiff had.

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    • $9M Recovery

      Train Accident

      $9 Million Recovery — Railroad Accident

      No. 02 L 00194
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      Train Accident: Plaintiff, a minor, was struck by a train on August 26,
      2000, at the intersection of 123rd Street and Lombard Lane in the Village of Alsip, Cook County, Illinois.
      Plaintiff was walking in a westerly direction on 123rd Street when a southeast bound train passed the crossing. Plaintiff began
      to walk in a westerly direction when a train traveling in a northwesterly
      direction struck him while his friend tried to pull him out of the way.
      Plaintiff suffered a brain injury and is currently suffering from an incontinent
      bowel and bladder. He is permanently disabled and attending public high
      school in an effort to obtain a high school diploma.

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    • $9M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $9 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice, Paralysis

      No. 00 L 7745
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff went to outpatient Midwest Medical Center
      for a spinal injection of an anti-platelet drug to alleviate neck pain
      caused by an earlier car accident. The injection caused a blood clot in
      his spinal cord, causing tingling and numbness in lower limbs. Three hours
      later an ambulance was called to take him for emergency surgery, but by
      the time he arrived at the hospital, he was permanently paralyzed.

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    • $8.5M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice,Brain Injuries

      $8.5 Million Verdict – Brain Injury, Medical Malpractice

      No. 11 L 3640
      – Devon C. Bruce

      On June 23, 2010, the Plaintiff suffered an arrest and subsequent lack
      of oxygen resulting in a brain injury. Plaintiff alleged that the cause
      of her arrest and oxygen deprivation was an occluded tracheostomy tube
      which was not addressed in a timely fashion by the Defendant Hospital
      staff. Plaintiff suffered a severe brain injury. Plaintiff’s past
      medical bills at the time of settlement were approximately $1.8 Million.

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    • $8.5M Recovery

      Contingent Commercial Litigation

      $8.5 Million Recovery — Professional Malpractice, Corporate Litigation

      No. 13 L 4011

      Professional Malpractice/Corporate Litigation: K. Corporation is a manufacturer
      of microphones and other electronic equipment. Sjuata Sachdeva was a senior
      officer at K. Corporation and fraudulently converted several million dollars
      for her personal use. She was found out, convicted and sentenced to a
      prison term of 11 years. Grant Thornton was hired by Koss Corporation
      to perform audits for Koss. It was alleged that Grant Thornton, through
      its team of auditors, should have discovered the fraud being perpetrated
      by Ms. Sachdeva and timely reported it to Koss.

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    • $8.1M Recovery

      Car Accident

      $8.1 Million Recovery — Motor Vehicle Negligence

      No. 98 L 4793
      – Devon C. Bruce

      Car Accident: A Barrington Hills police officer stopped suddenly on Route
      63, purportedly to chase a speeder going in the opposite direction. The
      sudden stop caused another vehicle to swerve and strike Plaintiff’s
      car head-on. Plaintiff was 8 months pregnant and despite an emergency
      c-section, the fetus suffered brain damage.

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    • $8.05M Verdict

      Product Liability

      $8.05 Million Verdict – Product Liability

      No. 06 L 11181
      – Thomas G. Siracusa

      Product Liability: Defective/improperly maintained elevator hoist ropes
      caused orthopedic injuries.

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    • $8.05M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

      $8.05 Million Verdict- Wrongful Death/Medical Malpractice

      17 L 2749
      – Larry R. Rogers Jr.,Kathryn L. Conway

      Wrongful Death/Medical Malpractice: (2022 – Cook County) The 59 YO
      patient presented to an outpatient Advocate Clinic with signs and symptoms
      of an upper respiratory infection and an abnormal pulmonary exam noting
      “mild congestion bilaterally.” The patient was noted to have
      spent time with her father in a nursing home who had recently tested positive
      for MRSA. The patient was given a prescription for Azithromycin, an antibiotic
      that does not cover MRSA. Two days later, she presented to South Suburban
      Hospital with signs of an advanced pneumonia, which was later confirmed
      to be a MRSA pneumonia. Plaintiff argued that the abnormal pulmonary exam
      was indicative of a lower respiratory infection and necessitated the ordering
      of an x-ray to rule out PNA and that an antibiotic effective against MRSA
      had to be given. Advocate argued that MRSA-PNA is exceedingly rare and
      that Azithromycin is an antibiotic that covers the most common bacterial
      pneumonia agents. The patient was survived by her husband, who passed
      away 5 years later, and three adult sons.

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    • $8M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $8 Million Verdict – Medical Malpractice

      No. 96 L 03539

      Medical Malpractice: This involved a 69 year old former attorney who went
      into Northwestern Memorial Hospital on June 1, 1995 for triple bypass
      surgery. On June 4, 1995, his chest tube was removed which resulted in
      a pneumothorax. This pneumothorax resulted in him becoming short of breath
      and eventually led to a cardiac arrest and brain damage. The defense claimed
      his injuries were from a heart attack from his underlying cardiac disease.

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    • $8M Recovery

      Aviation Accident,Drug Liability

      $8 Million Recovery – Aviation– Brian LaCien,Jonathan M. Thomas

      A 32-year-old female passenger suffered numerous cervical and lumbar vertebrae
      fractures requiring a posterior surgical fusion of C1-C2 in a commercial
      airplane crash.

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    • $8M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

      $8 Million Verdict — Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice

      No. 94 L 16986
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: 11 year-old girl being treated for cardiac rhythm
      disturbances suffered an arrhythmia while showering at home and passed
      away on April 29, 1994. Defendants University of Chicago Hospitals and
      Dr. J. Deane Waldman failed to address Amy=s condition with appropriate
      medication and failed to provide Amy, through her family, with information
      and recommendation of an implantable cardiac defibrillator during the
      18 months she was under their care.

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    • $8M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $8 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice

      No. 02 L 13309
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: 37 year old female had surgery for an ectopic pregnancy
      at Illinois Masonic Medical Center. During the procedure her bladder was
      perforated resulting in infection. The infection was not diagnosed and
      she was discharged. She re-presented to Illinois Masonic for further care
      in a comatose state. The infection became necrotizing resulting in loss
      of lower abdominal skin, muscle and tissue and numerous surgical interventions.

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    • $8M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice,Brain Injuries

      $8 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice, Brain Injury

      No. 09 L 5749
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: 53 year old female was transferred by helicopter to
      Advocate Christ Medical Center from another institution after being involved
      in an automobile accident. About two and a half hours after arrival she
      suffered a respiratory arrest followed by a cardiac arrest. Her chest
      cavity injuries should have been treated by elective chest tube insertion
      and intubation to avoid possible respiratory deterioration. She suffered
      permanent severe brain damage and the need for 24 hour care over her lifetime
      due to these failures.

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    • $7.75M Recovery

      Truck Accident

      $7.75 Million Recovery – Trucking Negligence– Larry R. Rogers Jr.,Kathryn L. Conway

      The Plaintiff was struck and partially run over by a right-turning truck
      as she began to cross the street while on her bicycle. The Plaintiff suffered
      injuries to her pelvis and abdomen, requiring the use of a diverting colostomy
      which may or may not be permanent. Additionally, the Plaintiff suffered
      from symptoms of PTSD. The Plaintiff was unmarried and not working at
      the time of the collision.

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    • $7.6M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $7.6 Million Recovery — Medical Malpractice

      No. 03 L 14889
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: 39 year old female with a history of Chrohn’s
      Disease underwent exploratory surgery for a suspected small bowel obstruction
      and a bowel resection. Defendants failed to diagnose and treat post-operative
      bleeding in her peritoneal cavity leading to her death.

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    • $7.5M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

      $7.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 15 L 000728
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      40-year-old female delivered twins at Northwestern Memorial Hospital on
      February 13, 2014. Despite evidence of lower extremity clotting and high-risk
      status for DVT development, no therapeutic anticoagulation was initiated,
      nor was a lower extremity venous doppler performed. Additionally, telemetry
      monitoring previously in place for post-partum cardiomyopathy risks was
      prematurely discontinued on February 21, 2014. The decedent experienced
      pulmonary embolism from her lower extremities, cardiopulmonary arrest
      and was pronounced dead on February 22, 2014 at Northwestern Memorial
      Hospital. The decedent was survived by her husband and newborn twins.

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    • $7.5M Recovery

      Birth Injury,Medical Malpractice

      $7.5 Million Recovery – Birth Injury

      No. 08 L 5859
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Sean M. Houlihan

      Birth Injury/Medical Malpractice: On March 10, 2004, Plaintiff was pregnant
      with her first child. Plaintiff presented to the emergency room at Lutheran
      General Hospital at approximately 6:00am due to the onset of active labor.
      Her daughter’s gestational age was 40 weeks and 5 days. Her daughter
      was delivered vaginally via vacuum extraction at 3:31pm by Isabel Gomez,
      M.D. Upon delivery, the baby was noted to have several serious health
      issues, namely the presence of meconium; neonatal depression; hypoxic
      ischemic encephalopathy and seizure disorder. The baby spent three weeks
      in the pediatric intensive care unit before being discharged. Her daughter
      sustained a brain injury. As a result of her brain injury, Plaintiff’s
      daughter has speech problems; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder;
      deficits in fine motor and gross motor skills necessitating braces (AFO)
      for walking.

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    • $7.5M Recovery

      Construction Accident

      $7.5 Million Recovery – Construction Accident

      No. 00 L 004450
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Thomas G. Siracusa

      The defendants failed to warn the plaintiff, a 28-year-old man, to use
      a lowering hook when placing explosives in a hole, rather than dropping
      them down. The resulting explosion caused him to sustain serious injuries
      to his arm, leading to its amputation, and the loss of an eye.

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    • $7.5M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $7.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 97 L 196
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      This case settled on the eve of trial in Lake County, Illinois for $7,500,000
      for the negligent failure to diagnose and treat bacterial meningitis.
      This is the largest settlement in the history of Lake County, Illinois,
      and the largest sum of money ever paid in the history of Illinois involving
      bacterial meningitis.

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    • $7.5M Recovery

      Aviation Accident,Drug Liability

      $7.5 Million Recovery – Aviation– Brian LaCien,Jonathan M. Thomas

      A 54-year-old male passenger died as a result of a commercial airplane crash.

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    • $7.5M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $7.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 13 L 010443
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Joseph W. Balesteri

      D.S., Individually and as Independent Administrator of the Estate of E.S.,
      Deceased v. NorthShore University HealthSystem d/b/a Highland Park Hospital
      , No. 13 L 010443 (Cook County)

      (2016) Medical Malpractice: 29 year old female was prescribed Desmopressin
      because of a possible bleeding risk associated with Von Willebrand’s
      Disease prior to ophthalmologic surgery. This means that sodium levels
      will fall and can, if unmonitored, become significantly decreased. Surgery
      was performed and a second dose of Desmopressin was provided prior to
      discharge. Shortly after her discharge, she was returned to Highland Park
      Hospital’s ER. Staff in the ER realized her sodium was severely
      elevated. She was intubated and transferred to the ICU. Her pupils became
      dilated and fixed. Later a CT showed transtentorial herniation with brain
      stem compression. She passed away on December 10, 2012, survived by her
      husband and one year old daughter. Co-counsel with Joseph A. Power, Jr.

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    • $7.5M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $7.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 2015 L 009820
      – Thomas M. Power,Joseph W. Balesteri

      (2019) Medical Malpractice: 39-year-old female was visiting a family member
      at defendant hospital. As she was walking near a water fountain in the
      hospital hallway, she slipped and fell in a puddle of water. She was transported
      to the emergency department and it was determined that her knee had dislocated
      and that she lacked pulses in that leg. After vascular surgeon consultation,
      Plaintiff was transported to the intensive care unit instead of the operating
      room. Plaintiff was later brought to the OR after several hours. According
      to Plaintiff’s experts, the delay in care and treatment (fall to
      incision was 6 hours) resulted in inadequate blood flow which led to her
      above-the-knee amputation as her popliteal artery had been severed by
      her fall. Co-counsel with Thomas M. Power.

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    • $7.45M Recovery

      Wrongful Death,Product Liability

      $7.45 Million Recovery — Product Liability, Wrongful Death

      No. 05 L 9376
      – Thomas G. Siracusa

      The plaintiff-decedents, a married couple, were driving a used car when
      a tire blew out, causing the car to flip over. The accident occurred due
      to manufacturing defects in the car’s tires and also due to the negligence
      of the car dealer who sold the vehicle with worn tires. Both the husband
      and wife died as a result of the accident, leaving two minor children.

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    • $7.3M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice,Brain Injuries

      $7.3 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice / Brain Injury

      No. 97 L 16428
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      On August 29, 1996, The Plaintiffs were visiting their daughter in Lyle,
      Illinois when D. began complaining to severe back pain. An ambulance was
      called and he was transported to Edwards Hospital in Naperville, Illinois.
      After an initial diagnosis of descending aortic aneurysm with dissection,
      D. was transferred to Loyola University Medical Center on August 30th. During this hospitalization, D. was further evaluated and scheduled for
      cardiac surgery. On September 3rd, while hospitalized and awaiting surgery, D. experienced cardiac arrest
      and an anoxic episode that rendered him comatose. As a result of not being
      properly monitored while on Propofol. He is now 68 years old, lives with
      his wife, but suffers from permanent brain damage.

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    • $7.25M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

      $7.25 Million Verdict – Wrongful Death / Medical Malpractice

      No. 2007 L 9820
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Joseph W. Balesteri

      Plaintiff’s Decedent was diagnosed with breast cancer. During a biopsy
      of her breast she experienced an anaphylaxis attack according to the defense
      and medical examiner or a pulmonary embolus according to plaintiff. The
      plaintiff further alleged a DVT or pulmonary embolus was never ruled out.

      During the hospitalization she was placed on Heparin prophylaxis which
      was later discontinued because of a suspected adverse reaction (HIT) without
      ordering an alternative anticoagulant. She experienced a fatal pulmonary
      embolus two days later.

      She was a school teacher who left surviving a husband and daughter.

      JURY VERDICT: $7,250,000.00

      Last Offer: $2,000,000.00

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    • $7.012M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice,Motorcycle Accidents

      $7,012,000 Verdict – Medical Malpractice / Motorcycle Accident

      No. 81 L 25078
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Larry R. Rogers Sr.

      After sustaining numerous injuries in a motorcycle accident, including
      a C-2 “hangman’s” fracture and bruising of his spinal cord,
      student ended up paralyzed as a result of the failure to adequately replace
      his blood lost in the accident and appropriately intubate him.

      Affirmed on Appeal 91-1742, 269 Ill.App.3d 37, 645 N.E.2d 319 (1994)

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    • $7M Verdict

      Contingent Commercial Litigation

      $7 Million Verdict – Defamation / Libel

      No. 04 LK 000013
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.

      This case involved the trial of a defamation case on behalf of an Illinois
      Supreme Court Justice. This is the highest defamation verdict and the
      highest subsequent settlement for a judge in the United States history.

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    • $7M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

      $7 Million Recovery – Wrongful Death / Medical Malpractice

      No. 05 L 5817
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Joseph W. Balesteri

      On April 27, 2004, K., a 57-year-old medical malpractice defense lawyer
      with the law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson, underwent a stress test
      at an office location near his home. The stress test was ordered by his
      internist at Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation. The stress test
      results were faxed and mailed to the Faculty Foundation. However, the
      test results were not reviewed due to an administrative error and K. was
      never advised that the results were abnormal and required cardiac catheterization.
      He experienced sudden cardiac death on August 9, 2004.

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    • $7M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $7 Million Verdict – Medical Malpractice

      No. 03 L 8437
      – Larry R. Rogers Jr.

      Verdict as lead trial counsel on behalf of the wife and children of a 49-year-old
      man who died as a result of the negligent failure to review his known
      and documented medical history of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.
      That negligence resulted in the patient not receiving life-saving anti-coagulants
      resulting in the gentleman developing a new onset of deep vein thrombosis,
      experiencing a pulmonary embolism and dying two days later. (2007)

      Defense: Denied that standard of care required anticoagulants, denied
      that patient was at risk of suffering a pulmonary embolism, denied that
      prescribing anti-coagulants would have made a difference and, and denied
      degree of loss to family.

      VERDICT: $7 Million

      Settlement Demand: $3 Million

      Settlement Offer: $1.2 Million

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    • $7M Recovery

      Birth Injury,Medical Malpractice,Brain Injuries

      $7 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 10 L 304 (Winnebago County)
      – Devon C. Bruce

      Plaintiff was born at 25.5 weeks. At 11 days of life, plaintiff contracted
      three blood borne infections. Plaintiff deteriorated and ultimately suffered
      a hypoxic event as a result of the infection. Plaintiff developed periventricular
      leukomalacia or PVL. Plaintiff alleged that the defendants were negligent
      in performing the hygiene and sanitary procedures in the NICU unit which
      led to plaintiff’s infection. Plaintiff further alleged that the
      defendant Dr. Siddiqui, a neonatologist, and the nursing staff failed
      to respond timely to identify and treat the infections. Plaintiff alleged
      that the cause of plaintiff’s PVL was the hypoxic event arising
      from the infection and not the plaintiff’s prematurity. Plaintiff
      has been diagnosed with permanent brain damage and requires 24 hour care.
      Plaintiff’s medical bills to date exceed $1,000,000.00. Defendant
      contended that the risk of infection is common in neonates, that the PVL
      was caused by the plaintiff’s prematurity of 25.5 weeks and not
      the infection and that the plaintiff has a substantially reduced life
      expectancy.

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    • $7MRecovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $7 Million Settlement – Medical Malpractice– Thomas G. Siracusa,Kathryn L. Conway

      Medical Malpractice: The Plaintiff, a 66 year-old woman, suffered paraparesis
      after physicians at an area hospital failed to timely diagnose and treat
      her rare spinal cord lesion. The defense contended that the delayed diagnosis
      was inconsequential, because the lesion was in a location that rendered
      it inoperable.

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    • $6.5MRecovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $6.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 2016 L 008588
      – Joseph W. Balesteri,Kathryn L. Conway

      (2020) Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff’s Decedent, a 40-year-old,
      passed away from non-small cell lung cancer. Two and a half years prior,
      a cavitary lesion in the left lung had been identified on CT as an incidental
      finding. A year later, another CT was performed which identified “interval
      resolution” of the cavitary lesion. Plaintiff contended that this
      second interpretation was professionally negligent and that in reality,
      the lesion was larger and more solid in composition as compared to the
      year prior. Defendant contended that the interpretation was not negligent
      and further contended that individuals with metastatic disease, due to
      their genetic makeup, are metastatic years before diagnosis such that
      earlier diagnosis and treatment would not have changed the outcome. The
      Decedent is survived by his wife and two children.

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    • $6M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $6 Million Verdict — Product Liability(2024 – Cook County)

      No. 2016 L 002679
      – Joseph A. Power Jr., Joseph W. Balesteri

      (2024) Medical Malpractice: 57-year-old male presented to a Chicago area hospital for an elective urologic procedure. Hours after the procedure, a rapid respiratory response was called. Plaintiff alleged a failure to work-up, diagnose, and treat pulmonary embolism by increasing heparin therapy from prophylactic to therapeutic dosing. After a brief stay in the ICU, a few hospital days were spent on the general medical floor where a Code occurred, however, death was pronounced. An autopsy revealed a saddle pulmonary embolus and a clot in one lung lobe. The decedent is survived by his wife and three children.

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    • $6MRecovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $6 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      2020 L 003616
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Joseph W. Balesteri

      (2020) Medical Malpractice: Three-year-old girl presented to a local pediatric
      hospital to undergo surgery for the removal of what was believed to be
      a cholesteatoma which was affecting left-sided hearing (conductive hearing).
      The next day she underwent a second surgery to repair physician-caused
      injury to facial nerve. The ENT in charge of the surgery failed to recognize
      that the mass was not a cholesteatoma and proceeded to explore the area
      causing the facial nerve damage. As a consequence, the minor now will
      need a Baha hearing aid affixed to her skull and has lost the real opportunity
      to hear on the affected side. She also has permanent facial paralysis
      resulting in asymmetry of her face, eyes, eyebrow, and smile.

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    • $5.7M Verdict

      $5.7 Million Verdict – Unpaid Legal Fees– Joseph A. Power Jr.

      Unpaid Legal Fees: Ron Gidwitz, President Donald Trump’s Finance
      Committee Chairman in Illinois, and his family were ordered to pay $5.7
      million in unpaid legal fees to their former attorneys after the family
      breached contract with Ungaretti & Harris through their refusal to
      pay reasonable and fair legal fees.

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    • $5.5M Recovery

      Car Accident,Wrongful Death

      $5.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice– Joseph A. Power Jr.,Carolyn S. Daley

      D.E. v. Service Partners, LLC, et al – 09 L 23 (Ogle County)

      Wrongful death and vehicular negligence verdict. On April 23, 2008, Plaintiff’s
      decedent was operating a motorcycle eastbound on Rte. 38 with his wife,
      Plaintiff, D. E., as a passenger on their way to work at Northern Illinois
      University at approximately 7:45 a.m. when Defendant, Gerald W. Hemker,
      who was operating a semi-tractor trailer, as an employee and/or agent
      of Defendant, Service Partners, LLC, westbound on Rte. 38 attempted to
      turn left off of westbound Rte. 38 onto the southbound ramp for I-39 in
      front of the motorcycle. The motorcycle struck near the middle of the
      semi-tractor trailer on the passenger side of the truck. The decedent
      sustained multiple blunt trauma to his head, chest, and pelvis which led
      to his death that day. The Plaintiff sustained multiple open pelvic fractures
      with disruption of the pelvic circle, closed fracture of eight or more
      ribs, acute pulmonary collapse, closed fracture of sacrum or coccyx, contusion
      of genital organ, pneumothorax and contusion of lung. She has had a number
      of surgeries. She also has drop foot and is required to use support devices.

      The jury returned a verdict of $5,000,000.00 to the Plaintiff for her disfigurement,
      loss of normal life, pain and suffering, emotional distress, services
      received, and present cash value of future services. The jury returned
      a verdict of $1,000,000.00 reduced by 50% contributory negligence for
      the wrongful death of the decedent.

      Co-counsel with Joseph A. Power, Jr., and Todd A. Smith.

      Settlement: $5,500,000.00

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    • $5.35M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $5.35 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 2017 L 005653
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      (2021) Medical Malpractice: A 59-year-old male presented to a Local Community
      Hospital for an elective carotid endarterectomy. Following the surgery,
      blood pressure fluctuations required continued hospitalization. On post-operative
      day two, there were significantly elevated blood pressures. That evening,
      signs and symptoms consistent with an expanding neck hematoma developed-
      a risk of a carotid surgery. With difficulty swallowing and problems breathing,
      a Rapid Response Team was called to the bedside. A few hours later, a
      Code Blue occurred when the undiagnosed neck hematoma obstructed his airway
      causing brain injury leading to death. The decedent is survived by his
      adult son and his wife.

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    • $5M Recovery

      Motor Vehicle Negligence

      $5 Million
      Motor vehicle negligence – January 7, 2007 the defendant’s semi-tractor trailer driver failed to stop for slowing traffic on southbound I-65 at mile marker 138 in Boone County, IN, and rear-ended the plaintiff’s vehicle. The plaintiff’s husband died and she suffered right radial and ulnar fractures requiring surgical repairs.

      Co-counsel with Joseph A. Power, Jr.

      Settlement: $5,000,000.00

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    • $5M Recovery

      Motor Vehicle Negligence

      $5 Million
      Motor vehicle negligence – July 6, 2006 the defendant’s van driver had a blood alcohol above the legal limit, when he crossed the grassy center median of I-55 in Plainfield Township, and struck the Plaintiff’s decedent’s northbound car head on, causing multiple blunt force trauma resulting in death. She was survived by her husband and 2 adult children.

      Co-counsel with Joseph A. Power Jr.

      Settlement: $5,000,000.00

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    • $5M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      11 L 007000
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Joseph W. Balesteri

      L.S.
      v. Susan Ruda, et al., No. 11 L 007000 (Cook County)

      (2016)
      Medical Malpractice: 58 year old female underwent a total left knee replacement procedure
      at a suburban hospital. Post procedure arterial insufficiency was not
      recognized until three days later. L.S. was transferred to Northwestern
      Memorial Hospital where it was discovered that the popliteal artery and
      popliteal vein had been transected during the knee replacement surgery.
      It was too late to repair the damage and an above knee amputation resulted.
      Co-counsel with Joseph A. Power, Jr.

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    • $4.8M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $4.8 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice– Joseph W. Balesteri

      N. A., as Independent Administrator of the Estate of R. R., Deceased v.
      Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 13 L 9055 (Cook County)

      Medical malpractice settlement. The decedent presented to Northwestern
      Memorial Hospital for labor and delivery. She was delivered by caesarian
      section at 10:30 p.m., delivering her first child and the sole heir to
      this cause of action. The decedent experienced intraoperative and postoperative
      bleeding and passed away in the early morning hours of November 13, 2012.
      The defendants failed to properly monitor her labor and delivery, failed
      to timely perform a caesarian section and failed to timely monitor and
      treat blood loss following caesarian delivery. The decedent’s sole
      heir was hours old at the time of her passing.

      Settlement: $4,800,000.00

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    • $4.75M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $4.75 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice– Joseph W. Balesteri,Kathryn L. Conway

      A 78-year-old female underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Neither preoperative
      nor intraoperative biliary imaging was obtained to detail the surgical
      anatomy so intraoperative anatomical identification of the gallbladder
      and triangle of Calot was required before cutting or clipping. Inappropriate
      structures were injured after improper anatomical delineation. Biliary
      surgery at a subsequent tertiary care center identified the injuries and
      surgical repair followed.

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    • $4.5M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $4.5 Million – Medical Malpractice

      G.T. v. A Local Rehabilitation Facility
      (Cook County)

      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      (2022) Medical Malpractice: A 61-year-old husband and father was transferred to a rehabilitation facility following a hypoxic brain injury. He was extubated and required reintubation which was alleged to have been negligently delayed. His death followed. Co-counsel with Thomas M. Power.

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    • $4.6M Verdict

      Medical Malpractice

      $4.6 Million Verdict – Medical Malpractice

      14 L 10562
      – Larry R. Rogers Jr.,Kathryn L. Conway

      A 70-year old female went into Advocate Illinois Masonic for a planned
      thyroidectomy due to the development of a massive goiter. During surgery,
      she suffered a stroke. Plaintiff alleged that the stroke was caused by
      deep anesthesia and resultant hypoperfusion to her brain. Defendants maintained
      that the stroke was embolic and caused by dislodged plaque due to manipulation
      of the right carotid artery in order to remove the massive tumor. The
      Plaintiff suffered weakness on her left side as a result of the stroke
      and required the use of a cane and/or walker to get around. She was already
      retired at the time of the stroke. There was a $100,000 offer prior to
      trial. The $4.6 Million verdict, included an award of $2 Million for emotional distress.

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    • $4.5M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $4.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice– Joseph W. Balesteri,Kathryn L. Conway

      (2020) Medical Malpractice: Thirty-four-year-old female presented to hospital
      for an elective laparoscopic hysterectomy. During the procedure, the iliac
      vein was injured during entry of the initial trocar, which resulted in
      major bleeding. Resuscitation was delayed. Due to lack of mass transfusion
      protocol, lack of blood products, surgical access, power infusion devices,
      and surgical repair, death occurred intraoperatively. She is survived
      by her husband and daughter. Co-counsel with Kathryn Conway.

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    • $4M Result

      Premises Liability

      $4 Million Result – Premises Liability

      No. 2018 L 001537
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      Premises Liability: Two occupants of a home aged 62 and 12 suffered second
      and third degree burn injuries when their home exploded as a result of
      gas leakage, which migrated into the home through the sewer line from
      a main leak in the roadway on their residential block. The explosion resulted
      in permanent scarring of portions of their bodies. The home was ignited
      when they entered the home in the winter and the furnace activated resulting
      in the explosion. (2019)

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    • $4M Verdict

      $4 Million Verdict – Medical Malpractice

      14 L 008156
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: After receiving a history of a patient falling out of a cab going 25-35
      miles an hour, hospital staff, including trauma, neurosurgeons and nurses,
      provided inpatient care to Decedent. On the sixth day of hospitalization,
      the neurosurgical service and the nursing staff failed to do timely neuro
      checks, obtain CT scanning, and failed to diagnose increasing intracranial
      pressure, which had occurred in a delayed fashion following head trauma.
      That resulted in brain stem herniation and death. The patient was 46 years
      old at the time of his passing. He is survived by his wife, who remarried
      prior to trial, and their two minor children. Co-counsel with Joseph A. Power Jr.

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    • $4M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

      $4 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death

      17 L 001342
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      (2017)
      Medical Malpractice: 42 year old male underwent successful bilateral lung transplant on December
      27, 2015. On January 11 and 12, 2016, while his tracheotomy tube was capped
      for the first time overnight, his vitals were inadequately monitored and
      he experienced respiratory arrest that led to cardiac arrest which resulted
      in his death on January 12, 2016. He is survived by his wife and 3 children.

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    • $3.9M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $3.9 Million Recovery – Dental Malpractice– Larry R. Rogers Sr.,Carolyn S. Daley

      H.J., Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of G.W. v.
      Feldman, et al, 07 L 14237 (Cook County)

      Dental malpractice settlement. On December 17, 2007, G.W., a 46 year old
      female, went to Defendant Feldman to undergo a root canal. Defendant Feldman
      gave G.W. intravenous sedation in an excessive amount and failed to monitor
      G.W. adequately. As a result, G.W. suffered cardiac arrest and subsequently
      died. G.W. was survived by her son.

      Co-counsel with Larry R. Rogers, Sr.

      Settlement: $3,900,000.00

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    • $3.75MRecovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $3.75 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 2018 L 002985
      – Joseph W. Balesteri,Kathryn L. Conway

      (2021) Medical Malpractice: 24-year-old male presented to Local Community
      Hospital with complaints of a headache for 3 days and vomiting. A CT scan
      was ordered and revealed diffuse cerebral edema and hydrocephalus which
      according to Plaintiff’s experts, contraindicated the performance
      of a lumbar puncture. A lumbar puncture (LP) was ultimately done to rule
      out Meningitis by the Emergency Medicine Physician. After the LP, the
      young man became unresponsive and passed the next day. He is survived
      by his parents and two adult siblings. Co-Counsel with Kathryn L. Conway.

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    • $3.5M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $3.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No. 2020 L 011374
      – Joseph W. Balesteri

      (2020) Medical Malpractice: Forty-two-year-old female was admitted to a
      local academic medical center’s psychiatric unit and was an inpatient
      for a total of 5 days. During her stay, she was determined to be a suicide
      risk and her medications were adjusted and/or terminated. On her fifth
      day as an inpatient, she was negligently and prematurely discharged without
      completion of further testing, completion of psychological workup, and
      without involving the family members in the decision-making process. On
      the morning after discharge, she was found dead. Her death was by suicide.
      She is survived by her husband and children.

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    • $3.5M Recovery

      Medical Malpractice

      $3.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

      No Lawsuit Filed
      – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Joseph W. Balesteri

      Medical Malpractice: 61 year old male underwent a colonoscopy, and a possibly
      palpable nodule was identified within the colonoscopy report. The report
      was reviewed by the ordering primary care physician; however, no further
      workup was obtained, whether by urologic consultation or a PSA testing.
      Approximately, one year later, the primary care physician did order a
      PSA and urologic consult, which revealed abnormalities, prostate cancer
      and lymph node involvement. Due to increased risks of mortality associated
      with delayed diagnosis, this case was settled without the need for filing.
      Co-counsel was Joseph A. Power, Jr.

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  • $3.03 Verdict

    A.M. v. Compounding Pharmacy (2021)

    $3.03 Million Verdict – A.M. v. Compounding Pharmacy (2021)

    – Dominic LoVerde

    Dominic LoVerde, on behalf of their client, secured a $3,035,000.00 verdict. In October of 2019, a compounding pharmacy misfilled a prescription drug and then distributed it to the client. It was alleged that the misfilled prescription caused a thyroid storm and PTSD. At trial, the pharmacy contested causation and the nature and extent of Plaintiff’s injuries. The $3,035,000 verdict exceeded the pharmacy’s insurance coverage available. The case later settled for the full judgment plus costs and post-judgment interest.

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  • $3M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

    $3 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death– Larry R. Rogers Jr.,Kathryn L. Conway

    Wrongful Death/Medical Malpractice: The minor Decedent was born with a congenital heart defect. Plaintiffs
    allege that the Defendant did not obtain their consent before converting
    a diagnostic procedure to an interventional procedure and negligently
    elected to place a plug in an attempt to occlude the minor’s collateral
    vessel. After failing to obtain total occlusion, the Defendant placed
    a second, larger Plug and caused perforation of the vessel and for the
    minor Decedent to exsanguinate and die.

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  • $2.75M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $2.75 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

    No. 2019 L 003499 (Cook County)
    – Joseph W. Balesteri,Kathryn L. Conway

    (2022) Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff tried unsuccessfully to have a child
    for years and eventually at the age of 45 was able to reach term. During
    labor, the defendant obstetrician who was also pregnant went to rest while
    the fetal heart tracings were indeterminant after speaking to an obstetrical
    resident. Upon returning to the bedside 4 hours later, an elective c-section
    due to failure to progress was recommended. At birth about an hour later,
    the newborn was significantly depressed with blood gases and Apgars revealing
    metabolic acidosis resulting in his death. Upon review of the fetal heart
    tracings, while the obstetrician was resting and while mom was under the
    care of a labor and delivery nurse, the strips revealed recurrent variable
    decelerations requiring communication and expedited delivery. Decedent
    is survived by his mom and dad. Joseph W. Balesteri as lead counsel, with
    the assistance of Kathryn L. Conway.

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  • $2.75M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $2.75 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice– Joseph W. Balesteri,Carolyn S. Daley

    M.L. as Special Administrator of the Estate of M.L., deceased v. Northwestern
    Medical Faculty Foundation, 09 L 004942 (Cook County)

    Medical malpractice settlement. 16 day old male survived by his parents,
    experienced brain injury at birth due to a failure to respond to late
    decelerations in fetal heart tracings resulting in his death.

    Co-counsel with Joseph W. Balesteri.

    Settlement: $2,750,000.00

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  • $2.6M SETTLEMENT

    R.D. & Z.D. v. Trucking Company (2023)

    $2.6 Million Settlement – R.D. & Z.D. v. Trucking Company (2023)

    Power Rogers attorneys Joseph Power and Dominic LoVerde secured a $2,600,000.00 settlement. In 2020, Z.D. and R.D., an elderly couple, were rear-ended by a semi-tractor trailer when reducing their speed to turn right into a gas station. Z.D. lost control of her vehicle, careened off the road and crashed into a tree. Defendant trucking company contended that it was a low-impact collision, and Z.D. accelerated after the impact and drove erratically into the tree. After two lawsuits regarding insurance coverage and several years of litigation, the insurance companies agreed to settle.

    Result: $2,600,000.00

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  • $2.5M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice/Birth Injury/Wrongful Death

    $2.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Birth Injury, Wrongful Death– Joseph W. Balesteri

    K.L. v. A Local Hospital (Cook County)

    (2023) Medical Malpractice/Birth Injury/Wrongful Death: Immediately after birth, Plaintiff’s newborn daughter required breathing assistance due to a nuchal cord (the umbilical cord around the baby’s neck as she progressed down the birth canal). A pediatric team was standing by at delivery and made two failed attempts to intubate the newborn baby. A neonatal team was called for additional resuscitative efforts and in the interim oxygenation by laryngeal mask airway was not attempted. After intubation, the baby’s heart rate never improved. Plaintiff’s experts believed that the endotracheal tube was not properly placed. Eleven minutes after being pronounced, the baby was noted to still be breathing. Resuscitation efforts were then re-started. She was again pronounced later that day. Decedent is survived by her parents. Co-Counsel with Kathryn L. Conway.

    Settlement: $2,500,000.00

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  • $2.5M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice/Birth Injury/Wrongful Death

    $2.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Birth Injury, Wrongful DeathKathryn L. Conway

    K.L. v. A Local Hospital (2023 – Cook County)

    Medical Malpractice/Birth Injury/Wrongful Death: Immediately after birth, Plaintiff’s newborn daughter required breathing assistance due to a nuchal cord (the umbilical cord around the baby’s neck as she progressed down the birth canal). A pediatric team was standing by at delivery and made two failed attempts to intubate the newborn baby. A neonatal team was called for additional resuscitative efforts and in the interim oxygenation by laryngeal mask airway was not attempted. After intubation, the baby’s heart rate never improved. Plaintiff’s experts believed that the endotracheal tube was not properly placed. Eleven minutes after being pronounced, the baby was noted to still be breathing. Resuscitation efforts were then re-started. She was again pronounced later that day. Decedent is survived by her parents. Co-Counsel with Joseph W. Balesteri.

    Settlement: $2,500,000.00

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  • $2.5M Recovery

    Birth Injury,Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

    $2.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Birth Injury, Wrongful Death– Joseph W. Balesteri,Kathryn L. Conway

    Medical Malpractice/Birth Injury/Wrongful Death: Following an induction
    of labor on January 19, 2021, the baby’s fetal heart rate tracings
    were initially normal. However, over the course of the next two days,
    the tracings became abnormal as did the mother’s contraction pattern.
    Pitocin administration continued despite the presence of abnormal tracings,
    without intervention from the medical providers, which included attending
    physicians, resident physicians, and nurses. According to Plaintiff’s
    experts, a c-section should have been performed on the afternoon of January
    20th or the early morning of January 21st, based on the irregular and
    problematic heart rate tracings. Instead, a crash c-section was performed
    in the mid-morning of January 21st. The baby was born with hypoxic-ischemic
    encephalopathy and died on the same day of her birth. She is survived
    by her parents.

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  • $2.5M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

    $2.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death– Larry R. Rogers Jr.,Kathryn L. Conway

    Wrongful Death/Medical Malpractice: In June 2014, Decedent was treated
    in the University of Chicago Hospital’s emergency room, but was discharged
    without being told that she had a mass in her right lung. In March 2015,
    Decedent was diagnosed with cancer in her right lung. She succumbed to
    the disease on July 28, 2015 at age 80 (survived by her husband and three
    adult children). Lawsuit alleged delay in diagnosis/treatment of her lung cancer.

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  • $2.5M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $2.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death– Larry R. Rogers Jr.

    D. v. University of Chicago Hospitals

    (2016) Medical malpractice/wrongful death: In June of 2014, Decedent was
    treated at the University of Chicago Medical Center’s emergency room
    and was discharged without being informed that she had a mass in her right
    lung. 9 months later, in March of 2015, Decedent was diagnosed with a
    large right lung mass and ultimately died on July 28, 2015 at the age
    of 80. Decedent is survived by her husband and three adult children.

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  • $2.3M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $2.3 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

    No. 13 L 171
    – Joseph W. Balesteri

    (2017) Medical Malpractice: A 47 year old female presented to the emergency
    department at MacNeal Hospital and her evolving heart attack was not timely
    recognized nor treated. Instead, she was treated for GERD resulting in
    an approximate seven hour delay in diagnosis, ultimately leading to significant
    heart muscle damage and her death. She was survived by her husband, who
    passed away during the pendency of the case, and two adult children. Co-counsel
    with Joseph A. Power, Jr.

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  • $2.25M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $2.25 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

    No. 2018 L 004473
    – Joseph A. Power Jr.,Joseph W. Balesteri

    (2018)
    Medical Malpractice: Baby boy was born April 29, 2016. He returned to a local community hospital
    on May 5, 2016 with fever, not feeding well and appearing lethargic. Agents/employees
    of a local pediatric hospital failed to recognize and treat Herpes Simplex
    Virus with a medication called Acyclovir. Acyclovir was eventually administered
    42.5 hours after his initial presentation. He was later transferred to
    a pediatric hospital where he passed away on May 13, 2016. He is survived
    by his parents and his minor brother. Co-counsel with Joseph A. Power, Jr.

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  • $2.2MRecovery

    Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

    $2.2 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death– Joseph W. Balesteri,Kathryn L. Conway

    Plaintiff alleged that defendant healthcare providers were negligent in
    failing to timely recognize and surgically resect a perforated colon caused
    by ingestion of a foreign body, which resulted in the patient’s
    death. Decedent was survived by his wife.

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  • $2M Recovery

    Car Accident

    $2 Million Recovery – Vehicular Negligence– Joseph A. Power Jr.,Carolyn S. Daley

    J.K and N.K., Individually and as Special Co-Administrators of the Estate
    of J.K., deceased v. Harmon Grain, et al, 07 L 00009 (Ogle County)

    Vehicular negligence settlement. On September 22, 2005, the J.K. was a
    24 year old male who was driving westbound on Route 64 near Chana Road
    in Ogle County, Illinois when the Defendant driver who was operating a
    tractor trailer for Defendant Harmon Grain failed to stop at the stop
    sign on southbound Chana Road and struck the motor vehicle being operated
    by J.K. who died as a result of the injuries sustained in the motor vehicle
    accident. The Defendant driver was driving under the influence of drugs
    and was cited for numerous violations on his tractor trailer. At the time
    of his death, J.K. left surviving him his parents and his sister.

    Co-counsel with Joseph A. Power, Jr.

    Settlement: $2,000,000.00

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  • $2M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

    $2 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death– Joseph W. Balesteri,Kathryn L. Conway

    Medical Malpractice/Wrongful Death: Plaintiff’s husband presented
    to a local community hospital with numerous injuries to his chest and
    abdomen, including multiple vertebral and rib fractures, following an
    unwitnessed motorcycle crash. Imaging was performed which identified small
    bilateral pneumothoraces. The emergency room physician did not insert
    chest tubes prior to transferring the patient to the nearest trauma center
    for a higher level of care and Decedent was pronounced dead shortly after
    arrival to the trauma center. An autopsy was not performed. Plaintiff
    contended Decedent died as a result of a tension pneumothorax. Defendants
    argued that cause of death could not be determined in the absence of an
    autopsy and that Decedent most likely died from bleeding or other organ
    injury caused by the motorcycle crash. Decedent was survived by his wife.

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  • $2M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $2 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

    No. 2018 L 001765
    – Joseph W. Balesteri

    (2020) Medical Malpractice: Seventy-eight-year-old female suffered an embolic
    stroke at her home and was not found until 36-48 hours later. Upon arrival
    and assessment, significant carotid disease was identified as the etiology.
    Her PCP records revealed a carotid artery bruit that was never properly
    assessed and/or worked up during yearly office visits for many years preceding
    her stroke. As a result of her stroke, she suffered neurologic injury
    as well as orthopedic injury from her fall.

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  • $2M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $2 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

    No. 2021 L 000506
    – Joseph W. Balesteri

    (2021) Medical Malpractice: Mom presented for care at 33 2/7 weeks gestation
    to the labor and delivery triage at a Local Academic Medical Center. She
    had been diagnosed during her pregnancy with preeclampsia. The healthcare
    providers determined due to her blood pressure, that she should remain
    hospitalized and would be induced at 34 weeks. She was transitioned back
    and forth from the antepartum unit to the labor and delivery unit during
    the course of her stay twice. She received two doses of steroids to assist
    with fetal lung maturity before 34 weeks gestation. Plaintiff’s
    experts believe that she should have remained on a continuous fetal monitor
    and should not have been transferred back to the antepartum unit in light
    of abnormalities on the fetal heart tracings and further, that there was
    no reason to wait until 34 weeks for delivery. Ultimately, without continuous
    fetal monitoring, when a nurse checked on the baby’s heart rate
    on the antepartum unit there was none. Baby was survived by mom and dad.

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  • $2M Verdict

    Birth Injury,Medical Malpractice

    $2 Million Verdict – Medical Malpractice, Birth Injury– Kathryn L. Conway

    Medical Malpractice/Birth Injury: Plaintiffs’ alleged that the decedent
    physician failed to recognize the presence of a shoulder dystocia, despite
    numerous risk factors including the application of a vacuum at a high
    station, and applied excessive downward traction in order to effectuate
    the delivery, thereby causing the baby to supper a permanent brachial
    plexus injury. Defendants disputed the presence of a shoulder dystocia
    and maintained that Plaintiff’s injuries were the result of the
    internal forces of labor.

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  • $2M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

    $2 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death– Larry R. Rogers Jr.,Kathryn L. Conway

    Medical Malpractice/ Wrongful Death: The Decedent died from a pulmonary
    embolism eight days after undergoing surgery at Westlake Hospital allegedly
    because she did not receive appropriate anticoagulation medication post-operatively.
    Plaintiff alleged that the Defendant care providers failed to appreciate
    the patient’s risk factors for developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
    and pulmonary embolism. Defense argued that pharmacologic intervention
    was not necessary because the patient was ambulating adequately post-operatively

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  • $2M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $2 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

    16 L 010392
    – Joseph W. Balesteri

    H.C.
    and H.S., as Co-Executors of the Estate of P.B., Deceased, v. Northwestern
    Medical Faculty Foundation, d/b/a The Northwestern Medical Group
    , No. 16 L 010392 (Cook County)

    (2016) Medical Malpractice: 63 year old female passed away as a result
    of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung with metastasis to the liver, bones
    and skull. On May 29, 2013, a surveillance chest CT scan was ordered by
    a Northwestern Faculty Foundation employee. The May 29, 2013 CT result
    revealed a 10 mm right upper lobe speculated nodule documented as suspicious
    for primary lung cancer per interpreting radiologist. Another annual CT
    scan was performed on September 11, 2014. The 2014 scan revealed that
    the 2013 mass had grown to 19 mm and a new mass in the middle of the right
    lung was now present. A bronchoscopy followed on September 29, 2014 which
    revealed the diagnosis – squamous cell carcinoma. Over the next three
    months, P.B. suffered the painful and disabling consequences of metastasis
    and passed away a couple of days short of Christmas 2014. She was survived
    by seven brothers and sisters. Co-Counsel with Joseph A. Power, Jr.

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  • $1.775M Recovery

    Premises Liability

    $1.775 Million Recovery – Premises Liability– Carolyn S. Daley

    D.N, individually and as special administrator of the Estate of J.N., deceased,
    v. Unnamed Apartment Complex, 11 L 005686 (Cook County)

    Premises settlement. On January 19, 2011, J.N. was a 63 year old sub-contractor
    working at the defendants’ apartment complex when he slipped and
    fell on an unreasonably dangerous icy parking lot. Plaintiff alleged that
    the defendants were negligent in their maintenance of the parking lot,
    including plowing and salting, resulting in unreasonable dangerous conditions.
    As a result, J.N. fell and suffered severe injuries resulting in his death.

    Settlement: $1,775,000.00

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  • $1.7MRecovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $1.7 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice

    No. 2016 L 004271
    – Joseph W. Balesteri

    LS and AS v. Abdul Amine, M.D., A Local Community Home Health Agency, and
    A Local Sub-Acute Rehabilitation Facility
    , No. 2016 L 004271 (Cook County)

    (2019)
    Medical Malpractice: The Plaintiff, a 62-year-old male, presented to a local community hospital
    for complaints relating to his Stage 4 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
    During workup, fractures were identified in his spine associated with
    coughing and steroid use by treating physicians. One of those fractures
    was causing spinal cord compromise and a kyphoplasty was performed by
    Abdul Amine, M.D. Following the kyphoplasty, neurologic signs and symptoms
    developed but were not identified by Dr. Amine nor staff at a Local Sub-Acute
    Rehabilitation Facility nor Home Healthcare Nurses, ultimately resulting
    in paraparesis.

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  • $1.5M Recovery

    Wrongful Death

    $1.5 Million Recovery – Wrongful Death– Larry R. Rogers Jr.,Sean M. Houlihan,Carolyn S. Daley

    Mayhorn v. City of Chicago, 09 L 13503 (Cook County)

    Wrongful death verdict. On March 10, 2009, Matthias Mayhorn was at his
    home when 2 plain clothes officers arrived to arrest him pursuant to an
    investigative alert for a domestic incident. Mr. Mayhorn fled into his
    bedroom and attempted to exit a 2nd floor bedroom window when he was grabbed by his legs by the officers.
    The officers alleged that Mr. Mayhorn pulled a gun on them while he was
    attempting to evade arrest through the 2nd floor window and while being held by his feet by the officers. The defense
    further alleged that the police officers shot Mr. Mayhorn twice when he
    refused to drop the weapon and were justified in the use of deadly force
    in doing so. The Plaintiff established that Mr. Mayhorn was not shot at
    the window as the defense contended in a struggle with the police officers,
    but more likely than not was shot in the gangway below where he did not
    pose a threat of imminent death or serious bodily harm to the police officers
    or others. The Plaintiff introduced forensic evidence found at the scene,
    and testimony from a forensic pathologist regarding the downward and forward
    trajectory of the bullet wounds to the back of the head and the leg, to
    establish that Matthias was shot from a distance, and not at close range
    as the officers suggested. The Plaintiff also alleged that the lack of
    fingerprints or other evidence tying the weapon found at the scene to
    Matthias Mayhorn fit the profile for that weapon being a “drop gun”
    that was dropped at the scene to explain the unjustified shooting. The
    jury awarded $1.5 million dollars for the loss that Mr. Mayhorn’s
    three minor children suffered due to his death.

    Co-counsel with Larry R. Rogers, Jr., and Sean Houlihan.

    Settlement: $1,500,000.00

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  • $1.5M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice,Wrongful Death

    $1.5 Million Recovery – Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death– Larry R. Rogers Jr.,Kathryn L. Conway

    Medical Malpractice/
    Wrongful Death: Plaintiffs allege that Decedent was admitted for a routine hip replacement
    surgery. During his post-operative, inpatient treatment, his care providers
    failed to recognize the presence of an ileus and, after Decedent began
    to experience difficulty breathing, the anesthesia service attempted an
    intubation but failed to protect Decedent’s airway, which caused Decedent
    to go into cardiac arrest and pass away

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  • $1.35M SETTLEMENT

    D.G. v. Confidential Health Care Group (2023)

    $1.35 Million Settlement – D.G. v. Confidential Health Care Group (2023)

    Dominic LoVerde, on behalf of his client, secured a $1,350,000.00 settlement. His client, who was diagnosed with significant intellectual and developmental disabilities, resided in a 24/7 care facility and aspirated on food. Defendants strongly contested liability but the case resolved after mediation.

    Result: $1,350,000.00

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  • $1.175M Recovery

    Premises Liability

    $1.175 Million Recovery – Property Damage

    13 cv 3453
    – Kathryn L. Conway

    City of Marseilles v. Ingram Barge Company, 13 cv 3453
    (2016 – Cook County)

    Maritime: The City of Marseilles experienced significant property damage
    after the tow of Ingram Barge Company’s vessel, the Dale A. Heller,
    allided with the Marseilles dam and canal wall. Claimant the City of Marseilles
    alleged that the Heller should not have been in a position where it was
    unable to tie up its tow during high water in light of the weather forecasts
    that had been publicly available for days leading up to the allision,
    and that the allision caused the flood event. Ingram Barge Company argued
    that its vessel acted reasonably in light of specific river stage hydrographs
    and that the flood event was not the result of extreme rainfall.

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  • $1.1M Recovery

    Car Accident

    $1.1 Million Recovery – Motor Vehicle Accident– Carolyn S. Daley

    N.G v. Thoms

    Motor vehicle accident – N.G. was operating her vehicle westbound
    on Route 60 near the intersection of Route 43 when the defendant, who
    was driving eastbound on Route 60, turned left and struck N.G.’s
    vehicle. Defendant failed to yield the right of way causing the accident.
    N.G. suffered a right patellar fracture, a right tibial and fibular fracture,
    and right middle and medial cuboid fractures. Her injuries required surgical
    intervention, hospitalization for 13 days, in home health care, and extensive
    physical therapy.

    Settlement – $1,100,000.00

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  • $1.05M SETTLEMENT

    J.G. v. Foreign Motorcycle Manufacturer (2023)

    $1.05 Million Settlement – J.G. v. Foreign Motorcycle Manufacturer (2023)

    Dominic LoVerde, on behalf of his client, secured a $1,050,000.00 settlement. In 2022, J.G. was driving a recently purchased motorcycle when another driver cut him off. J.G. attempted to engage in an evasive maneuver but was unable and fell off the motorcycle, sliding underneath the rear right wheel of the vehicle and sustaining significant injuries. The Power Rogers team inspected the motorcycle and uncovered information that the braking system was negligently designed and manufactured. The parties settled after litigation. The settlement represents the limits of the insurance coverage available.

    Result: $1,050,000.00

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  • $1M SETTLEMENT

    Premises Liability

    $1 Million Settlement

    C.D. Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of J.P., deceased, v. Unnamed Medical Center and Security Company (Winnebago County)

    Premises liability – On the evening of May 31, 2016, J.P. accompanied his spouse, C.D., an employee of deft medical center, to the clinic to check on a security matter. There they encountered the spouse of one of the medical center owners, who stabbed J.P., and caused fatal injuries. Allegedly, there had been an ongoing business dispute between the owners of the clinic. On multiple previous occasions, police were involved in incidents that took place on the clinic property involving the one owner’s husband. Both deft owner and deft security company were aware of the history. On the date of the attack, the owner instructed the security company that because of the previous incidents, that if there were any security issues to immediately call the police. Despite these instructions, the security company called C.D but failed to warn of the potential danger. Then they called police on the non-emergency line advising only of a commercial property alarm.

    Settlement – $1,000,000.00

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  • $1M SETTLEMENT

    Motorcycle Accidents

    $1 Million Settlement – Motorcycle v. Automobile Driver (2023)

    Dominic LoVerde, on behalf of his client, secured a $1,000,000.00 settlement. In 2022, the client was driving his motorcycle and struck a car that turned left in front of his lane of travel in downtown Chicago. The Chicago Police Department witnessed the occurrence, and the motorcyclist received a ticket for failing to reduce speed to avoid a collision. The defendant driver argued the motorcyclist was traveling 30 to 40 mph above the speed limit and caused the collision. After an investigation, negotiations and litigation, the insurance company representing the driver agreed to settle.

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  • $1M Recovery

    Car Accident,Serious Injuries

    $1 Million Recovery – Vehicular Negligence– Joseph A. Power Jr.,Carolyn S. Daley

    R.F. v. Gercek, et al, 08 L 002975 (Cook County)

    Vehicular negligence settlement. On September 12, 2007, the Plaintiff,
    R.F., was a 74 year old female who was a pedestrian crossing Delaware
    Street near 175 E. Delaware in Chicago, Illinois when she was struck by
    the van the Defendant, I.G., was operating in reverse on Delaware Street
    while attempting to make a delivery at the John Hancock Building. The
    Plaintiff sustained a traumatic brain injury, oral injuries necessitating
    multiple oral surgeries, and knee and hip injuries as well.

    Co-counsel with Joseph A. Power, Jr.

    Settlement: $1,000,000.00

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  • $1M Recovery

    Sexual Assault

    $1 Million Recovery – Sexual Assault– Carolyn S. Daley

    Jane Doe v. The Langham Hotel, et al

    Sexual assault – Jane Doe was a client at The Langham Hotel’s
    Huang Spa when she was sexually assaulted by Joseph Mitchell, a massage
    therapist employed by The Langham. Defendant Mitchell had a history of
    complaints by massage therapy clients for sexual assault, exposing their
    genitalia, and inappropriate sexual conduct while providing massage treatments.
    These complaints resulted in his being terminated from previous employers
    prior to working at The Langham. In addition, prior to Jane Doe being
    assaulted, The Langham had received a previous complaint regarding Defendant
    Mitchell’s conduct. Despite knowing this history and complaints,
    The Langham failed to terminate this employee, continued to allow him
    to massage female clients, and failed to protect female clients from his
    sexually predatory behavior. During a massage, Jane Doe was sexually assaulted,
    inappropriately touched, and had her genitalia exposed.

    Settlement – $1,000,000.00

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  • $1M Settlement

    J.L. & L.L. v. Trucking Company (2022)

    $1 Million Settlement- J.L. & L.L. v. Trucking Company (2022)

    James Power and Dominic LoVerde, on behalf of their clients secured a $1,000,000.00 settlement. In October of 2018, the client
    was on his way to fill vending machines at a local racetrack when
    he was T-boned by the Defendant driving a semi-tractor trailer. It
    was alleged that the driver had fallen asleep after working too many
    consecutive hours behind the wheel. The settlement represents the limits
    of the insurance coverage available.

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  • $1M Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $1 Million Recovery- Medical Malpractice

    No. 14 L 9073
    – Joseph W. Balesteri

    Medical Malpractice:
    Pathologist under-reported findings contained within a tongue lesion during
    biopsy interpretation leading to a delay in diagnosis of tongue cancer
    and progression of disease leading to metastasis and death. The patient
    was 79 years old at the time of the misdiagnosis and was survived by her
    husband and children

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  • $975K Settlement

    M.S. v. Trucking Company (2021)

    $975,000.00 Settlement – M.S. v. Trucking Company (2021)

    – Dominic LoVerde

    Dominic LoVerde, on behalf of their client, secured a $975,000 settlement. The client was on their way home in a snow storm when a semi-tractor trailer struck black ice and lost control of the semi then the client’s vehicle contacted the semi. The client was taken to the emergency room where their BAC was .196. The trucking company disputed liability but after negotiations, were willing to resolve. The settlement represents the limits of the insurance coverage available.

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  • $900K Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $900,000 Recovery – Nursing Home Negligence

    No. 15 L 010589
    – Joseph W. Balesteri

    (2016) Nursing Home Negligence: 64 year old male passed away on June 14,
    2014, after staff at a long-term care facility failed to provide him with
    Klonopin medication that had been prescribed to prevent him from experiencing
    seizures. No Klonopin was given to Mr. Mayfield from March 19, 2014 through
    March 24, 2014 when he suffered a seizure requiring his hospitalization
    at Ingalls Memorial Hospital from March 24 through April 8, 2014. Thereafter,
    he was transferred to Ingalls Hospice where he remained, mostly unresponsive,
    until his death on June 14, 2014. Decedent was survived by two sisters,
    who were found to be his dependents.

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  • $800K Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $800,000 Recovery – Medical Malpractice– Carolyn S. Daley

    Roberts v. Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service, et al., 12 L 2978 (Cook County)

    On May 27, 2011. Plaintiff Roberts, a 68 year old woman, was admitted to
    Crestwood Care Centre for rehabilitation following a successful above
    the knee amputation on her right leg at Little Company of Mary Hospital.
    On June 7, 2011 Plaintiff appeared “gray” in color and was
    “cold” to the touch. A Nurse Practitioner for Crestwood instructed
    a nurse from Crestwood to call for an ambulance to take Plaintiff back
    to Little Company of Mary Hospital. Plaintiff alleged Ms. Roberts was
    not properly monitored during transport; the paramedics took an unreasonable
    amount of time to transport a woman who had an acute change in mental
    status and abnormal vital signs; and the paramedics should have taken
    her emergently to the better and closer hospital. Plaintiff further alleged
    that the paramedics altered Mrs. Roberts ambulance run report, even two
    days after her death.

    Settlement: $ 800,000.00

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  • $850K Recovery

    Sexual Assault

    $850,000
    John Doe, a disabled person, by and through his parents Jane Doe and John Doe II, v. The Board of Education of the City of Chicago (Cook County)

    Sexual assault – John Doe was a disabled minor in the cluster program at Chicago Public School’s Bogan Technical High School. He has had an IEP since he was in preschool at CPS. According to John Does’ IEP, he required a paraprofessional, among other things, to supervise while transitioning throughout the building, to and from all specials, lunch, on and off the bus, and in the bathroom. Student A was another cognitively disabled minor in the cluster program at Bogan High School. CPS knew that Student A had an IEP, a functional behavior assessment, and a behavior intervention plan that addressed, among other things, his significantly maladaptive behaviors, violent behavior including physical and verbal aggression toward others, anger control, and inappropriate sexual behaviors. CPS was aware that Student A was a danger to himself and others as it was documented in Student A’s IEP. Prior to attending Bogan, Student A required a one-on-one dedicated paraprofessional aide. While at another CPS school, Student A was found in a bathroom stall with two other students from the cluster program and according to CPS’ documents a Safety Plan was developed for him. The staff involved in this bathroom incident were very concerned that the dedicated aide for Student A was not in place and may have been a contributing factor. The staff said this needed to be addressed to deter from any future occurrence. Despite this, at Bogan Student A was not given a one-on-one dedicated aide. In June of 2016, another disabled student in the cluster program at Bogan reported being sexually assaulted on more than one occasion in the bathroom at Bogan by Student A. The administration was aware of these allegations and did nothing to protect other students. Student A was not given a dedicated aide and his teachers and aides in his classroom were not advised that there were allegations that he sexually assaulted another student. Bogan and CPS did not implement a Safety Plan for Student A to prevent this from happening to another student. Student A continued to be a student at Bogan and was not provided with a dedicated aide for the 2016-2017 school year, despite these allegations and ongoing behavioral and disciplinary infractions. On February 8, 2017, John Doe’s bus was late bringing him home from school. Upon arriving home, he was agitated and kept hitting himself saying he hurt me. Upon inquiry by his mother, he advised that Student A sexually and physically assaulted him.

    Co-counsel with Larry R. Rogers, Jr.

    Settlement: $ 850,000.00

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  • $750k Recovery

    Sexual Assault

    $750,000.00

    John Doe, a disabled person, by and through his parents Jane Doe and John Doe II, v. The Board of Education of the City of Chicago (Cook County)

    Sexual assault – John Doe was a disabled minor in the cluster program at Chicago Public School’s Bogan Technical High School. He has had an IEP since he was in preschool at CPS. According to John Does’ IEP, he required a paraprofessional, among other things, to supervise while transitioning throughout the building, to and from all specials, lunch, on and off the bus. Student A was another cognitively disabled minor in the cluster program at Bogan High School. CPS knew that Student A had an IEP, a functional behavior assessment, and a behavior intervention plan that addressed, among other things, his significantly maladaptive behaviors, violent behavior including physical and verbal aggression toward others, anger control, and inappropriate sexual behaviors. CPS was aware that Student A was a danger to himself and others as it was documented in Student A’s IEP. Prior to attending Bogan, Student A required a one-on-one dedicated paraprofessional aide. While at another CPS school, Student A was found in a bathroom stall with two other students from the cluster program and according to CPS’ documents a Safety Plan was developed for him. The staff involved in this bathroom incident were very concerned that the dedicated aide for Student A was not in place and may have been a contributing factor. The staff said this needed to be addressed to deter from any future occurrence. Despite this, at Bogan Student A was not given a one-on-one dedicated aide. Student A, left unsupervised in the bathroom at Bogan sexually assaulted John Doe who was also unsupervised in the bathroom. John Doe reported the assault to another student at Bogan who subsequently reported it to a teacher.

    Settlement – $750,000.00

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  • $700K Recovery

    Car Accident

    $700,000 Recovery – Vehicular Negligence– Larry R. Rogers Sr.,Carolyn S. Daley

    P.T. v. Hirota, et al, 08 L 004492 (Cook County)

    Vehicular negligence settlement. On January 22, 2008, the Plaintiff, P.T.,
    was a 47 year old female who was driving eastbound on Dundee Road in Arlington
    Heights, Illinois proceeding through the intersection of Dundee Road and
    Wilke Road when the Defendant, S.H., turned left from westbound Dundee
    Road and struck the Plaintiff’s vehicle. The Plaintiff sustained
    right tibia and fibula fractures requiring an open reduction internal fixation.

    Co-counsel with Larry R. Rogers, Sr.

    Settlement: $700,000.00

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  • $600K Settlement

    Motor Vehicle

    $600,000

    C.S. v. El Perico Logistics, LLC (Cook County)

    Motor vehicle – On December 11, 2015, the plaintiff was seated in her parked car on South Keating Avenue when deft truck driver sideswiped her vehicle while he was pulling into a parking spot ahead of her. She suffered injuries that led to radiculopathy, stenosis, and compression at C5-C6 which required discectomy and fusion. She subsequently developed adjacent segment disease at C6 for which she underwent injections ($137,079 medl. expense).

    Settlement: $600,000.00

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  • $527K Settlement

    L.K. v. Security Company (2022)

    $527,000 Recovery – L.K. v. Security Company (2022)– Carolyn S. Daley

    Dominic LoVerde, on behalf of his client, secured a $527,000 settlement.
    In November 2021, L.K., a minor, and three others allegedly broke into a
    commercial property. It was alleged that while L.K. left the premises,
    security guards pursued L.K. and exercised unreasonable force causing L.K.’s
    injuries. L.K. was charged with criminal trespass but the charges were dropped.
    The security company contested liability but after negotiations and litigation,
    were willing to resolve.

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  • $500K Recovery

    Premises Liability

    $500,000 Recovery – Premises Liability– Carolyn S. Daley

    N.C. v. Unnamed clothing store (Cook County)

    Premises Liability – N.C. was shopping at an unnamed clothing store when she tripped and fell as a result of an empty portable clothing rack being left between the aisles. Due to the clothing rack being empty and the manner in which it was left out, it was not easily visible and was a tripping hazard. The unnamed clothing store had policies that prohibited employees from leaving clothing racks unattended or leaving them empty within the aisles due to it being a tripping hazard to customers in the store. N.C. sustained a 4-part fracture of the surgical neck of the humerus with marked disruption of the humeral head with intraarticular incongruity with separation right at the joint. As a result of her injuries, N.C. underwent a full shoulder replacement.

    Settlement – $500,000.00

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  • $450K Recovery

    Medical Malpractice

    $450,000 Recovery – Medical Malpractice– Joseph W. Balesteri

    L.N. and T.N. v. RUMC, No Lawsuit Filed (Cook County)

    65 year old female presented for a minimally invasive left total knee arthroplasty.
    Prior to closure of the incision, the knee was inadvertently injected
    with rubbing alcohol instead of saline. Blisters developed post-operatively
    requiring antibiotic administration leading to Steven-Johnson Syndrome
    and hospitalization which was not billed. This matter was settled without
    the need for filing.

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  • $425K Recovery

    Premises Liability

    $425,000 Recovery – Premises Liability– Carolyn S. Daley

    L.M. v. Midwest Gaming & Entertainment, LLC d/b/a Rivers Casino

    On November 21, 2019, L.M. was walking from the parking garage into Rivers Casino. She tripped and fells as a result of a negligent curb design and placement of a slab of concrete behind the curb. L.M. while walking up the sidewalk from the street turned to go towards the entrance when she tripped as a result of the raised edge of the curb that was not visible to the eye as a result of the modification that Rivers Casino made behind the curb. The evidence revealed that Rivers Casino modified the curb area and placed a slab of concrete behind the curb because people were walking through the wood chip and plantings in that area causing dirt to be brought into the Casino. This modified the curb area to have a slab of concrete behind it that was the same color and so it would be hard for a pedestrian to visualize the raised curb area. They never painted the curbed area to clue a patron in to the raised edge. Rivers was negligent in the placement of this slab of concrete, creating an unreasonably dangerous condition with the raised curb which was a proximate cause of the fall. L.M. suffered a shoulder injury requiring a reverse shoulder replacement.

    Settlement – $425,000.00

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  • $350K Recovery

    Premises Liability

    $350,000.00

    Murray v. Chicago Park District, et al (Cook County)

    Premises liability – Ms. Murray was attending a tour of Soldier Field with her family. She was descending a stairwell from the parking structure at Soldier Field when she fell as a result of broken and defective concrete on the landing off the bottom step. She suffered a right ankle fracture requiring surgery.

    Settlement – $350,000.00

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  • $280K Recovery

    Premises Liability

    $280,000.00

    R.G. v. Delicate Touch Car Wash (Cook County)

    Premises liability – R.G. was at a car wash when he went to use the bathroom. The bathroom floor tiles were wet causing R.G.’s cane to slip and him to fall. He suffered a left hip fracture requiring surgery. R.G. died during the pendency of the case due to unrelated causes.

    Settlement – $280,000.00

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  • $230K Settlement

    Personal Injury

    $230,000 Recovery – D.F. v. Dog Owner– Carolyn S. Daley

    Dominic LoVerde, on behalf of his client, secured a $230,000 settlement for
    a dog bite victim who was injured while visiting another’s residence.

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  • $245K Recovery

    Car Accident,Pedestrian Accidents

    $245,000 Recovery – Motor Vehicle Accident– Carolyn S. Daley

    C.S.W. v. Arreola – State Farm Insurance Company for Underinsured Motorist Claim (Cook County)

    Motor vehicle accident – C.S.W. was a pedestrian in a crosswalk struck by a vehicle being operated by Arreola who was unable to see due to her windshield being “fogged up.” C.S.W. suffered a bilateral fracture of the right and left humerus, periorbital hematoma resulting in temporary left visual field deficits, and a concussion.

    Settlement – $245,000.00

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  • $175K Recovery

    Premises liability

    $175,000.00

    A.A. v. Hilton Hotels (Northern District of Illinois)

    Premises liability – A.A. slipped on the stairs while at the Hilton for a work conference. She suffered a fracture to her right ankle resulting in surgery.

    Settlement – $175,000.00

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  • $125K Recovery

    Motor vehicle accident

    $125,000.00

    A.J. v. Dugger (Winnebago County)

    Motor vehicle accident – A.J.’s motor vehicle was struck by the defendant’s motor vehicle when he lost control due to excessive speeds on snowy roadways. A.J. suffered a cervical strain and ongoing headaches.

    Settlement $125,000.00 (policy limits of $50,000 from defendant and $75,000 from underinsured motorist policy)

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  • $100K Recovery

    Motor Vehicle Accident

    $100,000 Recovery
    N.B. v. Ahmad

    Motor vehicle accident – Plaintiff was riding a motorcycle when she was struck by a motor vehicle. She suffered a ligament tear in her right thumb resulting in surgery.

    Settlement – $100,000.00 (policy limits of $50,000.00 from defendant and policy limits of $50,000.00 from underinsured motorist policy)

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  • $100K Recovery

    Car Accident,Pedestrian Accidents

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