Kevin P. Durkin

Man crushed by punch press machine at factory.

A 72-year-old man suffers severe vascular injuries to his legs when truck backs up at gas station and traps him between the truck and his car.

A 57-year-old bicyclist was struck and killed by an express eastbound commuter train in Riverside, Illinois. Eastbound trains were running on tracks usually used by westbound trains. There had been a derailment that morning, causing employees of Burlington Northern Santa Fe to deactivate the pedestrian crossing gates to better access the derailment.

Truck rear-ends car with a 71-year-old driver, killing him.

Truck loses control and strikes car, killing young mother of two in Indiana.

Two young women killed and three others seriously injured when scaffolding collapses from the John Hancock Center in windy conditions; settlement represents majority of $77 million global agreement in consolidated cases where Clifford Law Offices acted as lead counsel in taking more than 100 depositions.

42-year-old male taxi passenger sustains severe facial fractures and dental injuries when cab runs red light at intersection and collides with another vehicle.

A mother and her two children involved in a devastating truck-car collision on Interstate 90 near Rockford in 1999. After a month-long trial in the Cook County Circuit Court, Mr. Durkin received a $38.3 million verdict on behalf of the family in March, 2004 – the largest in the country that year involving a motor vehicle crash and was featured as one of the Top 100 Verdicts in the National Law Journal in 2005. Click here to read more about this case.

Clifford Law Offices represented the wife of a 57-year-old man who was killed in a South Shore passenger train collision with a steel coil-hauling truck at the Midwest Steel in Portage, Indiana.