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Notable Cases and Results

Carlson vs. Islamic Republic of Iran , 201 F. Supp. 2d 78 (D.D.C., 2002), verdict of $308,000,000.00 entered per Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in favor of six plaintiffs and spouses. Verdict represents record largest per diem compensatory award for international airliner hijacking and torture to surviving victims of international terrorism.

Confidential Case Name (Winnebago County, IL, 2004); recovery in the amount of $7,000,000.00 represents highest amount paid in voluntary settlement of medical malpractice action in Winnebago County.

Confidential Case Name (Winnebago County, IL, 2000); recovery in the amount of $3,500,000.00 represented then highest amount recovered by either settlement or verdict for wrongful death in Winnebago County, IL.

Confidential Case Name ( Winnebago County , 2001); recovery of $2,500,000.00 represents largest amount recovered by settlement or verdict to a survivor of medical malpractice for cardiac injury.

Confidential Case Name (U.S.D.C., N. Dist., IL, 2003) and (Winnebago County, IL, 2003); recovery of $1,600,000.00 for combined liability of state and federal court defendants for medical malpractice resulting in vision loss represents a record high recovery in courts of Northern Illinois for such an injury.

Confidential Case Name, ( Winnebago County , 2003) $1,000,000.00 for failure to diagnose breast cancer.

Confidential Case Name, (Winnebago County, 2010) $750,000.00 for failure to diagnose meningitis of newborn infant.

Confidential Case Name ( Winnebago County , 2006), $800,000 drug overdose of patient who underwent elective surgery. The case required exhumation of corpse for forensic examination.

Confidential Case Name (Winnebago County, 1999), $600,000 recovery against doctor and clinic who failed over a two year period to diagnose ovarian cancer in a 59 year old woman.  

Grawey vs. Rockford Memorial Hospital , $500,000.00 for suicide attempt in the emergency room.

Confidential Case Name, ( Winnebago County , 2004), $400,000 recovery for inadvertent injury to kidney's blood supply during removal of a tumor on the kidney.

Confidential Case Name, ( Winnebago County , 2003), $400,000 recovery for 6 month delay in making lung cancer diagnosis.

Confidential Case Name, ( Winnebago County , 2004), $250,000 recovery against nursing home. It  failed, over a period of six months, to prevent a decubitus ulcer in a 90 year old resident.

Anderson vs. Bob Evans, Inc ., $350,000 recovery against owner of commercial truck for multiple trauma arising out of intersectional motor vehicle collision.