Record Settlements & Verdicts

Craig Squillace, associate at Clifford Law Offices, obtained a record $4 million settlement on behalf of a 60-year-old woman who was killed when her vehicle was struck from behind by a tractor-trailer truck on I-80. The settlements represents a record in Will County for the wrongful death of a woman over 60. Mary Maher of suburban Park Forest died at the scene. She was stopped in her vehicle in heavy traffic when a semi-trailer owned…

March 18, 2015 The parent company of Yellow Cab company filed for bankruptcy, Wednesday (March 18, 2015), hours following a nearly $26 million verdict against the taxi company in a horrific accident that left a 44-year-old man permanently brain damaged and complete loss of his career as a lawyer. Yellow Cab Affiliation, Inc., of Chicago, the apparent principal company for the negligent driver of the cab, filed for bankruptcy overnight. Two personal injury law firms…

Marc Jacobs Jury Verdict Form Third Amended Complaint Two personal injury law firms came together today (Tuesday, March 17, 2015) to obtain a $25.9 million verdict on behalf of a lawyer who was severely injured in a horrific taxi crash 10 years ago that involved a speeding cab that went hurling off an expressway ramp and smashed head-on into a concrete barrier. Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, and Timothy…

January 23, 2015 Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, obtained a record $3.157 million verdict late Thursday evening in Rockford in a medical malpractice case involving a 65-year-old man who had his left leg amputated as a result of a doctor’s negligence. The seven-man, five-woman jury returned the verdict after less than five hours of deliberations following a two-week trial in the Winnebago County courthouse. Donald Johnson, 65, a former lieutenant with the…

The National Law Journal has featured Bradley Cosgrove’s $14 million verdict involving the inappropriate prescription of Yasmin as the number one verdict in Illinois in 2014. It also represents the top 40th verdict in the country, according to the publication. Zapalski v. Resurrection Health Care Corp. involved a two-week trial against a doctor who negligently prescribed Yasmin to a 37-year-old woman who suffered a debilitating stroke after taking it for less than two weeks. She…

A Clifford Law Offices attorney delivers a successful closing argument in the Carroll County courthouse for the Whitebread-Pacas case. Read our previous post about this case.

February 27, 2014 Bradley Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, obtained a $2.75 million near record settlement in a medical malpractice case in DeKalb County on behalf of a widow and two surviving minor children. The case involved the alleged negligent failure of an Advocate hospital to appropriately assess, diagnose and treat Daniel Koch’s deep vein thrombosis during a three-day admission following a serious automobile accident. The 45-year-old husband and father from Sycamore, Illinois, died…

February 6, 2014 Kevin P. Durkin, attorney at Clifford Law Offices, obtained a record $16 million verdict on behalf of two families whose sons were killed in a grain bin entrapment incident in Northwestern Illinois. Following a two-and-a-half-week trial, the Carroll County jury deliberated just eight hours before granting $8 million to each of the two plaintiffs’ families who were working at Haasbach at a Consolidated Grain and Barge Company grain elevator. The previous record…

Robert Clifford and Kevin Durkin Obtain $112 million of record $180 million Verdict in Federal Court in St. Louis Robert A. Clifford and Kevin P. Durkin, partners at Clifford Law Offices, led the trial team that obtained a record $112 million verdict on (Friday, June 1, 2012) on behalf of two men who were burned in a grain elevator explosion in downstate Illinois owned by ConAgra Foods. Also part of the trial team was Brad…