Megan Marie Shore

Attorney Megan Shore-Toca is the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys Top 10, Super Lawyer's Illinois Rising Star, The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers, and The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 10 Nursing Home Lawyers

Attorney Megan Shore-Toca is a Plaintiff's attorney who litigates cases involving sexual assault, medical malpractice, birth injury, nursing home abuse and neglect, assisted living abuse and neglect, community integrated living arrangement (CILA) abuse and neglect, dental malpractice, and other personal injury cases including privacy invasion, slip and falls, and auto accidents. Throughout her career, Megan has a 100% success rate at obtaining compensation for her clients. Throughout her career her cases have been highly publicized in the media, including CBS, ABC local news, NBC 5 Chicago Nightly News, AARP, Law360, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and The Daley Herald.

Notable settlements and verdicts including the following:

$143,000,000 birth injury verdict

$53,000,000 birth injury verdict

$12,000,000 wrongful death verdict for delayed diagnosis of cancer of a 78 year old woman

$9,047,000 nursing home neglect and wrongful death verdict for an infected bedsore

$6,000,000 nursing home choking and wrongful death case verdict

$4,000,000 medical malpractice settlement for a hospital's failure to diagnose sepsis causing death of a 68 year old

$2,300,000 medical malpractice settlement for a hospital's delayed diagnosis of an incarcerated hernia causing death of a 78 year old

$1,800,000 assisted living neglect causing death settlement

$1,750,000 assisted living neglect causing death settlement

$1,275,000 nursing home mismanagement of Coumadin causing death

​Throughout her career, Megan has presented and continues to do so at law schools and continuing education courses for lawyers and nurse consultants regarding electronic medical records for hospitals and nursing homes, audit trails, preventing obstruction of justice, written and oral discovery, defeating motions to compel arbitration, and the Medical Studies Act. Megan has also published articles across the country on birth injury, electronic medical records for hospitals and nursing homes, and audit trails. Megan also served as a consultant to AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), and continues to work with special monitors of skilled nursing facilities appointed by the California Attorney General to review nursing home abuse and neglect and audit electronic medical records.

Prior to starting her own firm, Megan litigated hundreds of cases throughout her career at a top rated Chicago law firm which was rated by US News as “Best Law Firms in Illinois First Tier Rankings Recognition,” and #1 for number of settlements reported by The Jury Verdict Reporter.

​Among her many accomplishments, Megan won the first federal motion to remand within the 7th Circuit determining that nursing homes are not immune from liability pursuant to the PREP Act and federal officer immunity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Megan also trained and litigated cases with nationally renowned birth injury attorneys, whom she continues to work and prosecutes cases with as a team, both in Illinois and across the nation. Megan has worked on birth injury cases across the nation in state and federal court for cases resulting in multi-million dollar settlements and jury verdicts ranging from $4.5 million to $143 million - the largest obstetrical malpractice verdict in United States history at the time.

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​Awards
Super Lawyer's 2021-2025 Rising Star

The National Trial Lawyer’s 2021 Top 40 Under 40 2022-2025

The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 10 Nursing Home Lawyers 2021-2025

National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys Top 10 2023-2024

The National Trial Lawyer's Top 100 Lawyers 2022-2025

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Associations and Committees:

Illinois State Bar Association

Ohio State Bar

Ohio Association for Justice

Maryland Association for Justice

Illinois State Bar Association's Mentorship Program (Mentor)

Illinois Trial Lawyers Association

National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys

Chicago Bar Association

Women's Bar Association of Illinois

Co-Chair of the following Committees:​

Small Firms

Annual Dinner ​

Top Women in Leadership Reception

The American Association for Justice:

The Birth Trauma Litigation Group​

Women's Trial Lawyers Caucus

The Nursing Home Litigation Group - Executive Committee Member

The Medical Malpractice Litigation Group

The Medical Record Retrieval CIOX Litigation Group

The New Lawyers Division

The National Trial Lawyers

Top 100 Lawyers​

Top 10 Nursing Home Lawyers

Top 40 Under 40 Trial Lawyers

Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism's Mentor

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​Presentations and Publications
The Elder Abuse Trial College: Compelling Stories, Levering Strategies, and Delivering Justice, April 2025, Chicago, IL

American Association for Justice Webinar: Finding the Truth, February 5, 2025

Dallas Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect Litigation Group Regional Conference. Dissecting the Defense. November 2024.

Ohio Association for Justice: Dissecting Data to Discredit the Defense. November 2024.

American Association for Justice: Mediation: Novel Strategies for Record Breaking Results. November 2024.

George Trial Lawyers Association: Discrediting the Defense. October 2024.

American Association for Justice Elder Abuse College 2024: Depositions and Cross-Examination, Chicago, IL

Women in Trial Summit 2024, One Deposition. One-Thousand Admissions. April 7, 2024

Advocating for the Aging, Season 2. Assisted Living Facilities - What you need to know. March 2024.

Maryland Association for Justice Medical Malpractice Annual Seminar - Keynote Speaker and Presenter, February 29, 2024

American Association for Justice: 2023 Annual Convention Speaker, Connecting the Dots for Record Breaking Results, July 2023

American Association for Justice Elder Abuse College 2023: Strategies for Record Breaking Results, 2023, Chicago, IL

Exposing Nursing Homes, Trial magazine, June 2022

Be Audit You Can Be: How to Better Prepare Your Lawyer, 2022 LNC Success Conference

Increasing the Value of Nursing Home Cases, Maryland Association for Justice, Nursing Home Litigation Group, January 2022

Understanding Audit Data in Medical Malpractice and Nursing Home Cases, Ohio Association for Justice Annual Convention 2022

Understanding the Nursing Home Industry’s Leading Electronic Medical Record and Audit Data, American Association for Justice's Nursing Home Litigation Group's Webinar Series, Spring 2022

Understanding Electronic Medical Records and Audit Trails - 2 Part Series, American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants Conference, West Virginia, 2022

Ethical Trial Practice in the Digital Age, Northwest Suburban Bar Association, December 1, 2021

Nothing Good Happens After 3 Hours: Recent Literature Questions ACOG's Guidance on the 2nd Stage of Labor, AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Group Journal, July 2021

A New Nursing Home Playbook: Discovery What the Long-Term Care Industry Hides in Its Electronic Medical, Financial, and Staffing Information, The American Association for Justice, Nursing Home Litigation Group, Spring 2021 Seminar

Understanding Electronic Medical Records, The American Association for Justice, Spring 2020 Seminar

Understanding the Leading Nursing Home EMR System, The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Journal, Winter 2020 Issue

Combating Defense Obstruction in Medical Malpractice Cases, The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, December 2019 Seminar

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Megan Shore-Toca In The News

Advocating for the Aging, Season 2 - Cable TV - RVN TV

Facilities Where Seniors Died After Walking Away or Being Left Unattended - The Washington Post

9th Circ. Ruling Won't End Nursing Home Virus Venue Fight - Law 360

Super Lawyers' Rising Star in Plaintiff's Medical Malpractice - Super Lawyers Magazine

Top 40 Under 40 Spotlight, Winter 2021 Issue - The Trial Lawyer Magazine

Member Spotlight, January 2022 - Illinois Women's Bar Association

Nursing Home Unlikely to Sway 9th Circ. In Virus Venue Fight - Law 360

2 Women Say They Were Sexually Assaulted By Same Masseur At Old Town Massage Envy - CBS News Chicago

2 Women Say Old Town Massage Envy Employee Sexually Assaulted Them - NBC 5 Chicago

Nursing Home Unlikely to Sway 9th Circ. In Virus Venue Fight - Law 360

2nd Symphony Of Joliet Wrongful Death Lawsuit, - Yahoo News!

Lawsuit Claims 'Gross Negligence' in COVID Death at Bloomington Nursing Home - WTLG Radio

COVID Executive Order Limits Malpractice Lawsuits - WGLT Radio

Lawsuit Accuses Bloomington facility of 'gross negligence' in COVID-19 death - Week 25 News

Lawsuit Against Bloomington Long Term Care Facility Alleges Gross Negligence in COVID Outbreak Death
- ABC News

Nursing Homes Struggle to Keep COVID Out as Deaths Rise - WGLT News

Bloomington Nursing Home Sued Over COVID Death - The Pantagraph