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Case Results
$7 million verdict at trial for the wrongful death of a 22-year-old student.
$2.75 million for a man severely injured because the general
manager of a short line railroad required his train crew to ignore safe work
practices so the job could be performed faster, placing both railroaders and
the public in harm's way.
$1,750,000 in a medical negligence case arising out of the improper use of neck traction during the treatment of a lower back strain, resulting in a neck injury requiring surgery and limiting a 46-year-old diesel mechanic to light duty work for the rest of his life.
$1.5 million for the death of a 22-year-old woman who suffocated in an MRI tube.
$1,486,000 for the death of a 79-year-old husband,
father, and grandfather as a result of injuries he sustained following
injuries he sustained with a tractor-trailer on a rural Indiana
highway.
$1.3 million for a baby who suffered a permanent
injury to his brachial plexus, the bundle of nerves to the child's
arm, as a result of errors by the obstetrician and delivery nurse
during his birth.
$1,100,000 for the death of a 16-year-old boy,
as a result of medical errors by his doctors in failing to recognize
hypothermia (or low body temperature), which caused a blood clotting
disorder following a car crash.
$1 million for the death of a young man as a result of improper treatment of severe asthma by his family doctor. This case settled for policy limits.
$775,000 for the death of a fetus, following a
car crash. Mother was eight months pregnant. Baby was survived by
his parents and two siblings.
$700,000 for a medical negligence case against
a pediatrician on behalf of a 14 year old boy after the doctor failed
to diagnose scoliosis (curvature of the spine), requiring multi-level
spinal surgery to correct the curvature. This child’s surgery
and disability could have been avoided with an earlier diagnosis.
$700,000 paid by an auto manufacturer for injuries
a 35-year-old physician sustained as a result of defendant’s
utilization of a “lap belt only” design, which has a
tendency to allow for “submarining” and “jackknifing”
in head on collisions.
$640,000 for a 43-year-old concrete finisher who
suffered a skull fracture and mild traumatic brain injury when he
was hit in the head by a stanchion plate that fell from above on
a worksite.
$595,000 for a medical malpractice case arising
from the failure to diagnose coronary artery disease, resulting
in the heart attack and death of a 42 year old wife and mother of
three.
$550,000 for a mother and wife for injuries she sustained in a "trip and fall" on a raised piece of concrete.
$515,000 on an FELA claim for a carman who developed hyper-reactive airway disorder
following exposure to hydrochloric acid vapors spilled from a railway tank car.
$341,000 (including all available insurance limits)
for an 8-year-old girl, whose father was killed in a single vehicle
car crash. Paternity of the child and her right to recovery was
disputed prior to the successful efforts of the attorneys of Coplan
& Crane.
$300,000 for a 48-year-old electrician for the
partial amputation of two fingers on his left hand following a work
site injury.
$300,000 for a medical malpractice claim arising
from the improper treatment of a premature baby.
$300,000 for a products liability claim against
a well known baby products manufacturer for burn injuries sustained
by a nine week old baby when an automobile bottle warmer melted
a baby bottle, spilling the scalding liquids on the child’s
hand and wrist.
$300,000 for the death of an 89-year-old husband,
father and grandfather in a nursing home malpractice case, as a
result of injuries sustained when he was left unsupervised while
using the restroom.
$300,000 on an FELA claim for a carman who injured his knee and back when a piece of the railroad car he was replacing rolled into him.
$250,000 against the Chicago Transit Authority
for a 5-year-old boy who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury
when he became entangled in a turnstile.
$250,000 for a medical negligence claim in which
a physician incorrectly performed a vasectomy resulting in nerve
injury and loss of a testicle in a 42-year-old husband and father.
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