Auto Accidents

20-year-old passenger sustains multiple fractures when driver loses control of car and crashes into a tree.

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.

Speeding hearse hits squad car on routine patrol, severely injuring police officer; black box in hearse recorded speed. Click here to read more about this case.

15-year-old severely injured and two teenagers killed when SUV rolls over on expressway.

Sport utility vehicle rolls over, injuring 6 passengers. (Partial settlement)

West suburban mother is severely injured in head-on collision.

Drunken driver kills one person and injures three others in Sioux Falls.