Record Settlements & Verdicts

Clifford Law Offices was named to the list of Top 10 Medical Malpractice Settlements in the US in 2019 by Top Verdict, for the Estate of Lara v. County of Cook case - an $8.5 million settlement. The settlement was on behalf of a mother who died after childbirth at Stroger Hospital following the medical team’s failure to recognize and treat signs and symptoms of...

Sarah F. King, partner at Clifford Law Offices, wrote an article for the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Summer 2020 Trial Journal magazine titled, "Practice Tips: Opening Statement in a Medical Malpractice Case, Estate of Gerald Sallis, Jr vs. West Suburban Medical Center et al". In August 2014, at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois, expectant mother Ms. Sallis' external fetal monitoring strips...

A team of medical malpractice lawyers at Clifford Law Offices obtained a record $101 million verdict on behalf of a baby who sustained brain damage at birth at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois. Following a month-long trial, Keith A. Hebeisen, Bradley M. Cosgrove, Sarah F. King and Charles R. Haskins obtained the record verdict on behalf of now five-year-old Gerald Sallis who...

Clifford Law Offices was recognized in five of the TopVerdict™ lists for 2018. According to TopVerdict.com, the organization “[recognizes] U.S. law firms and attorneys who have obtained one of the highest jury verdicts, court awards, or settlements, in the Nation or an individual State, in a particular area of law, and year.” Clifford Law Offices is listed in the following: Top 10 Premises Liability Verdicts...

On Tuesday, December 4, 2018, Clifford Law Offices obtained a $21.5 million verdict on behalf of a south suburban family whose son drowned on a weekly trip to the Bridgeview Park District Pool four years ago. The verdict is the highest for a drowning in the state of Illinois. It is also the highest in the state for the death of a minor excluding medical...