OUTCOME: Verdict in favor of Plaintiff for $22,300,000.00
Obtained the largest medical malpractice verdict in Cook County in 2009 against a hospital. A Cook County jury awarded the parents of a ten-year-old boy with a $22.3 million verdict in a medical neglig...ence case arising out of the care and treatment on May 39, 1999 at Advocate Christ Medical Center/Hope Children's Hospital, in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn. The negligence resulted in the loss of the boy's left leg and other disabilities.
Car accident
Hudson v. City of Chicago
Apr 11, 2008
OUTCOME: Verdict in favor of plaintiff $17,786,000.00
Plaintiff was driving westbound on the Eisenhower Expressway on May 7, 2001 at 8:50pm in the far right hand lane of traffic. Police Officer Sung Joo Lee, a second year City of Chicago police officer d...riving an unmarked squad car, entered a police pursuit of a suspected murderer without first asking supervisors permission to do so. While engaged in the pursuit, she lost control of her vehicle and spun 135 degrees striking the plaintiff’s vehicle in the rear left quarter panel with the front right side of her police vehicle causing plaintiff’s vehicle to roll over several times rendering the plaintiff an incomplete quadriplegic.
Plaintiff’s contentions and causes of action: Police Officer Lee, as agent for the City of Chicago, was wanton and willful in failing to notify her supervisor of her involvement in the pursuit contrary to General Order 97-3 which requires her to do so. She failed to notify her supervisor despite her knowledge her participation in the pursuit was against the General Orders. Furthermore, she was approximately the 15th vehicle in the pursuit and that her involvement would have been of no consequence to the apprehension of the suspect.
Defense position: Police Officer Lee was assisting the primary and secondary vehicles in the pursuit, not actively involved in the pursuit herself, therefore the General Orders were not applicable to her.
Unusual legal issues or interesting trial techniques or happenings: The plaintiff carried a heavy burden because the standard was willful and wanton misconduct because the City was claiming immunity because the officer had her mars lights on and was assisting in an emergency. However, the jury answered special interrogatories that the officer was not acting in an emergency and that her conduct was willful and wanton.
Personal injury
$7.5 million settlement
N/A
OUTCOME: Verdict in favor of Plaintiff for $7,500,000.00
As a result of an industrial accident, a 45-year-old boiler maker suffered crush injuries when an object fell on Plaintiff. His injuries included: A right orbital blow-out, multiple facial bone fractur...es, a thoracic burst fracture and multiple rib fractures.
Personal injury
$5,550,000 Settlement
N/A
OUTCOME: Verdict in favor of Plaintiff for $5,550,000.00
A female construction worker suffered incomplete paraplegia when a more than five foot trench collapsed on to her body.
Car accident
$5,348,750 verdict
N/A
OUTCOME: Verdict in favor of Plaintiff for $5,348,750.00
A self-employed roofing contractor, who was heading home on the Dan Ryan expressway, suffered multiple injuries, including leg, pelvis, and rib fractures, lung contusions, ruptured spleen and a mild br...ain injury, when his vehicle was cut off by a CTA bus, and he struck another bus which was stalled in the middle lane.
