Deft nursing home abused and neglected plaintiff age 64 and a Alzheimer’s patient, causing her to suffer malnourishment, dehydration, multiple stage IV pressure ulcers on her hip and lower back and death in November 2002. (2008)

In November 2007, Mr. Power was successful in persuading a Cook County jury to award $2.7 million to an 80-year-old man whose car was rear-ended by a semi-tractor trailer then flipped in the air, causing it to land on a nearby vehicle. The defendant claimed the plaintiff cut him off and slammed on his brakes. A police officer at the scene testified the plaintiff admitted that he stopped to avoid hitting a vehicle in front of him.

D.T. as Special Administrator of the Estate of C.T., Deceased, v. Ingalls Memorial Hospital; Robert Kaiser, M.D.

Medical Malpractice: 44 year old male presented to the Emergency Room at Ingalls Memorial Hospital complaining of abdominal pain. Plaintiff was placed on routine IV fluids and was admitted to the medical surgical floor with a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis, and possible small bowl obstruction. Defendant doctor recommended that pain medications be increased; CT Scan of the abdomen and pelvis with oral contrast. Plaintiff died the next day as a result of defendants’ failure to aggressively resuscitate Plaintiff with fluids and from the CT scan with contrast further which further compromised Plaintiff’s kidneys. Plaintiff died leaving a minor daughter. Co-Counsel with Larry Rogers, Jr.

Plaintiff, age 53, was installing aluminum siding on a building on May 22, 2018 when a piece contacted a live overhead power line. He suffered a 12,000-volt electric shock that resulted in a mild TBI, plus a minor burn injury. Plaintiff has not returned to work due to memory loss, word-finding problems, and other residuals. Allegedly, appropriate safety measures were not implemented. (2020)

Multiple serious injuries including a burst lumbar fracture, fractured sternum, punctured lungs, and cardiac arrest sustained by a husband and wife rear-ended by a tractor-trailer on I-290 in Roselle.

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

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.

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.

In December 2001, Tom Power negotiated a $2,500,000.00 settlement for a 33-year-old ironworker who, while working on a bridge which crossed-over the Stevenson Expressway, was knocked off the bridge by a crane operated by an employee of the general contractor. The ironworker suffered two fractured wrists.

In July 2003, Mr. Power, along with Tom Siracusa, represented the family of a terminally ill lymphoma patient who developed bedsores during his hospitalization. The jury awarded the family $2,500,000.00 after a two-week trial. In November 2002, Mr. Power and Mr. Siracusa settled a medical malpractice case on behalf of the family of a patient in whom the defendants failed to diagnose and timely treat a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. One and one-half weeks into the trial, the defendants offered $1.5 million, a substantial increase over their pretrial offer of $200,000.00. Education