Patients diagnosed with bladder cancer
N/AOUTCOME: $2.4 billion settlement
Member of lead counsel for group Actos mass tort settlement, patients diagnosed with bladder cancer.
Allen N. Schwartz's Legal Cases (5)
Chicago, IL
Personal injury Lawyer at Chicago, IL
Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice
Albert C. Garner v. Carter Excavating & Grading
N/AOUTCOME: $51.8 million verdict
A Carter Excavating tractor-trailer dump truck driven by Robert Walton was traveling northbound on the Dan Ryan Expressway (Chicago) when the bed began to rise. The elevated bed hit the Harrison Street ... overpass, was ripped from the trailer, and landed on top of a northbound City of Chicago cargo van carrying five people. Passenger, Genesis Bryant had numerous injuries including a C1-C2 separation and subarachnoid hemorrhage, which combined to take her life 9 hours after the crash. The jury awarded her estate $3,599,218. Passenger Krystal Powe suffered multiple traumas and died roughly 2 hours after the accident. The jury awarded her estate $8,005,765. The driver, Albert Garner sustained a C6-C7 fracture that rendered him a quadriplegic, plus an epidural hematoma, but he has no cognitive deficits. The jury awarded Garner $51,800,093, the highest Illinois compensatory verdict for personal injury (non-death).
Medical malpractice action for a 3 year old boy
N/AOUTCOME: $20 million verdict
A three-year-old toddler underwent outpatient surgery at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital due to an undescended testicle. Allegedly, hospital staff failed to monitor the child in the post-anesthesia care ... unit, and did not timely identify his respiratory arrest, leading to cardiac arrest and hypoxic ischemic brain damage when resuscitation was not promptly commenced. The child has severe cognitive and physical impairments (including quadriplegia and limited vision) and needs 24-hour care ($434,448 past medl. expense; lifetime lost income over $2.4 million claimed).
Ayoola v. Advocate Christ Hospital & Medical Center 10 L11832 (Cook County)
N/AOUTCOME: $16.3 million verdict
During trial in July 2015 this med-mal case settled. The allegations of negligence focused on the post-operative lack of care and monitoring in the PICU, resulting in a brain injury to a two year old c ... hild. The offer before trial at mediation by the defendant hospital was $2.5 million.
Estates of Lindner et al v. Millis Transfer, Inc., 06 C 5553 (Federal Court-Northern District of Illinois)
N/AOUTCOME: $13 million verdict
This was a commercial trucking case involving multiple deaths from a fiery wreck near Bristol, Indiana. It settled in federal court with the trucking company paying all of its $11 million in insurance ... coverage and $2 million of its own money.
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