Apulello v. Illinois Central Railroad
Verdict: $32,707,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $2,000,000

Railroad Crossing: Thirty-nine year old working mother struck by train at crossing with inoperative lights and gates. She sustained minor injuries to her hand and developoed a brain injury and psychiatric condition that left her totally disabled. Her husband received a $3.35 million for loss of consortium. Verdict is the third largest compensatory damage verdict in an Illinois personal injury case and the largest ever railroad crossing verdict in Illinois.

Tierney v. Comm. Mem. Gen. Hosp.
Verdict: $18,500,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $200,000

Medical Malpractice: Thirty-six-year-old with bacterial endocarditis that was misdiagnosed as a flare-up of a gastric ulcer. As a result of the dealy in proper diagnosis, the plaintiff suffered a stroke that left him mildy brain-damaged and paralyzed on the left side of his body. Verdict stood as the largest Illinois medical malpractice injury verdict for ten years.

Cohn v. Frost
Verdict: $9,800,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $0

Medical Malpractice: Thirty-nine-year-old mother of two who died of a ruptured cerebral aneurysm that was not diagnosed by neurologist who was trying to determine the cause of her headaches.

Christopher v. Rumsey et al.
Verdict: $6,500,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $0

Medical Malpractice: Forty-nine-year-old woman who died nine days following an outpatient tubal ligation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. During the surgery, her bladder was punctured and she developed a flesh-eating infection that claimed her life. Verdict was against her treating gynecologists who failed to call in an infectious disease consultant and delayed four days before making a diagnosis of the soft tissue infection.

Monaghan v. W.G. Motors, Inc.
Verdict: $4,635,155
Pre-Trial Offer: $50,000

One-car accident in which the plaintiff fell asleep at the wheel, hit a telephone pole, and the car caught on fire. The plaintiff suffered serious burns to the leg and left arm. The Verdict was against the dealer who had repaired the car's fuel system in the months prior to the crash.

Conway v. Carrillo
Verdict: $3,000,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $650,000

Medical Malpractice: Improper treatment of compound leg fracture in seventeen-year-old boy whose right leg was shortened one inch with muscle loss as a result of gangrene caused by the medical management.

Marek v. Amaitis & Associates et al.
Verdict: $2,546,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $0

Work Injury: 23 year-old maintenance mechanic suffered crushing and "degloving" injury to three fingers on his dominant hand resulting in ten surgeries to repair tendon, verssel and cosmetic damage. Verdict is the largest ever in Illinois for a hand injury without finger amputation.

Garner v. P. H. Lounge, Inc.
Verdict: $1,450,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $100,000

Wrongful Death: Twenty-one-year-old man, bar patron, shot and killed by manager/bouncer of bar, who used excessive force in brandishing and using a .38 caliber pistol to quell minor disturbance. Verdict was against manager/bouncer and owners of bar. Verdict stood for ten years as the largest ever in Kankakee County.

Starr v. James Malow, M.D., et al.
Verdict: $900,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $0

Medical Malpractice: Wrongful death of a fifty-three-year-old man who was admitted to Skokie Valley Hospital with an infection of his left ankle and sepsis. Defendants failed to timely treat necrotizing fascitis (flesh-eating bacteria) which claimed his life.

Best v. Ryan
Verdict: $752,500
Pre-Trial Offer: $50,000

Personal Injury: Motorcyclist, twenty-nine-year-old man, was hit by a drunk driver and suffered a compound fracture to his left leg.

Downing v. United Auto Racing Association
Verdict: $615,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $250,000

Auto Racing: Pit crew member who was standing on the racetrack was hit by an out-of-control racecar. Plaintiff suffered a compound fracture to one leg.

Moore v. Mercy Hospital
Verdict: $600,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $200,000

Medical Malpractice: Suffocation death of one-day-old baby boy in hospital nursery after he was born with no deformities other than a markedly deviated septum.

Bickner v. Lee
Verdict: $212,900
Pre-Trial Offer: $40,000

Auto Intersection accident: Twenty-five-year old woman suffered a non-displaced pelvis and jaw fractures which required wiring for six weeks.

Sanders v. Smith
Verdict: $150,000
Pre-Trial Offer: $75,000

Auto/bicycle collision: Twelve-year-old girl crossing Kedzie Avenue against the light suffered facial scar when struck by a car.