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Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 06/02/1999In Circuit Court
A Cook County jury has awarded a $14 million verdict against Commonwealth Edison on behalf of an Elgin woman injured in a 1996 traffic accident involving one of the utility company’s trucks.
The driver of the truck allegedly was retrieving a pear he had dropped when he rear-ended a vehicle at an intersection in Crystal Lake, forcing the vehicle into the car driven by Nancy Epping, said her attorneys, Robert A. Clifford and Timothy Tomasik of Clifford Law Offices. Epping’s leg, pelvis and hip were crushed in the accident, prompting about 30 reconstructive surgeries and confining her to a wheelchair for the past three years.
Jurors awarded Epping the executive director of the Elgin Public Museum of Natural History, $13.5 million Friday after a week-long trial before Circuit Judge William D. Maddux. Epping’s husband was also awarded $500,000 for loss of society and consortium. Nancy and Hugh Epping v. Commonwealth Edison, 96 L 8356.
