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| 05/07/2004 | $15,504,000 | 64-year-old man was killed and 62 year-old woman suffered a below-the-knee leg amputation, fractured ribs and several broken bones in her legs and arms when they were involved in a multi-vehicle pile-up on the Interstate. A multiple vehicle pile up on the interstate involved several commercial trucks who were allegedly driving too fast under adverse conditions. The adverse condition which existed was large amounts of smoke on the roadway which was caused by a fire at Union Pacific Railroad. It was alleged that the Union Pacific Railroad failed to contain a fire that they purposely set. |
| 06/30/1998 | $15,000,000 | 34-year-old property adjuster investigating hail damage on roof suffered severe burns when he comes into contact with low-hanging wire. This case was pending in Dallas, Texas. |
| 04/13/2005 | $12,500,000 | A Rolling Meadows High School football player was rendered a quadriplegic after he was struck by a teammate and came into contact with an unpadded, 25-foot-high steel post that was located near the sideline of the Rolling Meadow's football practice field.
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| 04/25/2004 | $10,000,000 | A four year old boy suffers birthing injuries including permanent brain damage, after doctors failed to perform a timely c-section on his mother.; $10 million annuity expected to yield $54 million over the course of the child's lifetime. |
| 01/02/2002 | $6,850,000 | A 37 year-old woman was looking at a home under construction in the Fox Run Estates subdivision in Schererville, Indiana when she fell 11 feet through an unsecured hole and is now paralyzed from the waist down. |
| 05/14/2000 | $6,500,000 | A Chinese immigrant had her legs crushed by a CTA bus which was making too tight a turn at a Chicago intersection. The 55 year-old woman was within the crosswalk at the time of the accident. |
| 04/30/2002 | $4,750,000 | 42-year-old construction worker shatters right leg after falling 20 feet when the steal beam he was working on collapses. |
| 03/11/2000 | $3,500,000 | Verdict A Greenville, South Carolina 40 year old anemic man died of colon cancer. A jury awarded $7 million dollars, which was reduced by 50%, for a net verdict of $3.5 million dollars. The Greenville, South Carolina jury determined that the doctor should have detected the colon cancer earlier. |
03/15/2007
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$3,000,000 | Verdict - A Country Club Hills woman died after doctors at St. James-Olympia Fields Hospital sent her home without the diagnosis or treatment of a pulmonary embolism.
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| 11/30/2004 | $3,000,000 | Verdict A graduate of Marist High School and a senior at Northern Illinois, was killed when a fellow Evans Scholar threw a cinder block from the 3rd floor balcony at Northern Illinois University and killed him. |
| 03/31/2008 | $2,900,000 | A 43 year old LaGrange Park man was killed in a motor vehicle collision when a drunk driver crossed over the center line on Route 83 near Bluff Road in DuPage County. He was survived by a wife and two adult children. |
| 09/21/2006 | $2,850,000 | A 39 year old construction worker suffers a crushed right foot after 1,600 pound steel beam is dropped from a magnetic lift while he was working at a steel plant. |
| 06/30/2008 | $2,800,000 | A 22 year old female college student was rear-ended by a Jewel Foods truck and killed in Kendall County. It was a record settlement for Kendall County. |
| 02/21/2003 | $2,775,000 | A Greyhound bus making a tight right hand turn pins a 34 year old Art Institute worker against a construction barrier. Her leg is degloved. The accident occurred in downtown Chicago. |
| 02/10/2000 | $2,600,000 | Verdict A 44 year old Quincy man died after back surgery from blood clots in his lungs. The Adams County jury awarded a record $2.6 million dollar verdict to the family. |
| 06/01/2005 | $2,600,000 | 24-year-old Chicagoland truck driver killed in a heptane gas explosion in Des Moines, Iowa, leaving wife and three-year-old daughter. |
| 06/18/1999 | $2,583,000 | Verdict - Two women involved in car accident; one killed, the other suffered post-traumatic stress in witnessing her best friend's death. It was a hit and run collision which occurred on the Kennedy expressway in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 04/14/2003 | $2,500,000 | A 49 year old Indiana resident dies of medical negligence due to improper post operative care at a Chicago hospital. |
| 07/01/1996 | $2,450,000 | Verdict An unemployed Wauconda woman was struck by a car crossing the center line and suffers orthopedic injuries, including a fractured leg. A Lake County jury awarded $2.45 million dollars, mostly for physical pain and mental suffering. The jury also found a Lake Barrington gravel company partly liable for causing, but not directly involved in, a head on collision which injured her. |
| 11/01/1999 | $2,000,000 | Worker impaled by metal rod at construction site. |
| 03/08/2004 | $1,750,000 | 61-year-old man suffered a subdural hematoma and later died when his car was rear-ended by a Pepsi owned vehicle while stopped at a red light. |
| 04/23/2007 | $1,500,000 | 72-year-old woman seriously injured requiring extensive surgery and rehabilitation when car crosses center line, striking plaintiff head on. |
| 12/12/2006 | $1,500,000 | 26-year-old road maintenance worker on the job with Illinois Toll Highway Authority is killed when a tractor-trailer drove around a rolling construction zone and struck him on the highway.
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| 03/10/2009 | $1,495,000 | A 49 year old Danville, Illinois woman struck and killed by a Dayton Freight Line semi-tracker trailer in downtown Danville, Illinois.
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| 02/05/2009 | $1,450,000 | Participant in Toys for Tots fundraiser is struck by vehicle and killed while riding motorcycle in paradealong Western Avenue.
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| 02/17/2009 | $1,300,000 | Verdict Athletic individual slips and falls on a wet floor which was caused by a leak in the roof of a train station, shattering his kneecap.
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| 12/15/2008 | $1,250,000 | 18-year-old University of Illinois student was struck and killed by a bus operated the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD) in a crosswalk while walking home from class. |
| 06/14/2006 | $1,200,000 | Unnecessary surgery is performed on a 31-year-old woman who broke her right leg; infection set in requiring amputation. |
| 06/26/2006 | $1,200,000 | Contractor did not follow proper safety precautions during demolition of a wall; bricks fell on to a 59-year-old construction worker that led to a torn rotator cuff and frozen shoulder; unable to work. |
| 12/08/2008 | $1,100,000 | An ironworker fractured his left ankle and right heel after the scissors lift he had been operating toppled into a snow-covered excavation. Two other construction companies participated in this settlement. |
| 09/03/2008 | $1,005,000 | Plaintiff was standing on the back of a parked pick-up truck when the truck was rear-ended by another vehicle. Plaintiff sustained an amputation of the left leg. |
| 05/01/1998 | $1,000,000 | A pedestrian crossing within the crosswalk is struck by a corporate vehicle thereby causing a closed head brain injury. |
| 05/07/1999 | $1,000,000 | Mother and son die in car accident in a newly opened construction zone. |
| 07/26/2005 | $975,000 | Verdict - 40-year-old woman suffers debilitating leg injury when gynecologist compresses nerve during routine surgery to remove fibroids. |
| 10/09/2003 | $900,000 | Motorcyclist had the right of way; the defendant proceeded with a left hand turn directly in his path, causing him to fly over the car and sustain short term memory loss and hearing loss in one ear. |
| 11/02/2000 | $607,204 | Verdict - 35-year-old postal worker delivering mail in struck by car and suffers erectile dysfunction. |
| 09/30/2003 | $400,000 | 52-year-old hairdresser was crossing the street when a vehicle driven by a nun hit her, breaking her leg and fracturing her cheek bone. |
| 03/31/2005 | $400,000 | 64-year-old father of two suffered fatal head injuries after falling down a flight of unsafe stairs at a car dealership. |
