Verdicts & Settlements Archive
A record-breaking settlement was secured on behalf of the family of a client whose doctors failed to diagnose her breast cancer in a timely manner, which ultimately led to her death at 37 years old. The client, a young mother, was a high-risk breast cancer patient with a family history and a sister with breast cancer.
The law firm of Romanucci & Blandin announced a $10.5 million settlement with Elk Grove Village and four of its police officers for the December 1, 2023, shooting death of Jack Murray, a 24-year-old man killed by Elk Grove police while he was in a mental health crisis. To the firm’s knowledge, it is the largest reported settlement in a civil suit in Illinois for a police shooting in which the person killed was not a bystander.
Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorneys Ben Crump of Ben Crump Law and Antonio M. Romanucci of Romanucci & Blandin announce the $10 million settlement for the July 6, 2024, shooting death of Sonya Massey.
Romanucci and Blandin secured a record-high McHenry County Plaintiffs’ verdict in favor of their clients against Commonwealth Edison for $9.05 million. The jury deliberated for under three hours.
The Medical Malpractice team obtained an $8 million medical malpractice settlement for a union laborer who suffered permanent damage to his spine.
An $8 million settlement was secured on behalf of our client, who was born with a mild form of Hirschsprung’s disease and injured in a botched experimental bowel surgery when she was four years old.
As a result of an industrial accident, a 45–year–old boilermaker suffered crush injuries when an object fell on Plaintiff.
A mother and daughter-in-law stopped at a stop sign on a rural road in Michigan were fatally injured when their vehicle was struck by a company vehicle traveling in excess of 130 mph.
$6.5 million settlement on behalf of a client who suffered a traumatic brain injury due to the collapse of the facade of a building.
$6.5 million settlement for Alaska Airlines Flight 261 aviation accident wrongful death.
$6 million settlement for a patient who died at a Chicago-area hospital. The patient died less than a week after heart surgery.
A union plumber was assigned to a construction site where an add-on was being built at an existing industrial building. When he got outside, he encountered a snow-and-ice-covered TPO roof. Within minutes of stepping on the roof, our client slipped and fell, significantly injuring his back, resulting in a laminectomy and fusion, and ultimately ending his career.
$5.5 million settlement for a medical negligence case involving a patient whom emergency medicine physicians suspected had aortic dissection.
After a trench fell onto a construction worker, the workplace injury team secured a settlement for her incomplete paraplegia.
A self-employed roofing contractor suffered multiple injuries when his vehicle was cut off by a CTA bus, and he struck another bus that was stalled in the middle lane.
$4.93 million verdict for the family of Verona Gunn, an innocent bystander killed during a Chicago Police crash.
Chicago City Council approved a $4.9 million settlement for a short list of named plaintiffs and a long list of injunctive relief to bring meaningful change to CPD policies for stopping individuals.
A carpenter sustained a traumatic brain injury, facial trauma and a torn rotator cuff among other injuries while working at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium when an improperly secured fish tank, weighing thousands of pounds, fell on him.
One of the largest personal injury settlements in Wyoming was reached on behalf of a client who was seriously injured in a trucking accident in 2018 on I-80 in Albany County, Wyoming.
Freddie Wilson was shot 18 times and killed, despite posing no threat, by three Chicago Police Department officers during a November 2007 traffic stop due to a broken headlight.
$4,250,000 settlement in a wrongful death premises liability case involving an 85-year-old woman in Cook County.
Chicago Police Officer Sheldon Thrasher shot 24-year-old Maurice while he was trying to climb a fence unarmed after he ran from officers conducting a routine drug investigation.
A $4.25 million settlement was reached with Palos Community Hospital and Kaushik J. Pandaya, M.D., for the parent of a 23-month-old who lost his life as a result of the negligent care provided by the hospital and physician, who failed to properly diagnose and provide the proper treatment for the young child in October of 2011.
A Chicago Police Officer shot and killed Flint Farmer, an unarmed 29-year-old, seven times - the last three shots were captured on squad car video, which showed Farmer lying on his side in the fetal position.
In 2023, a 3-year-old drowned in a neighbor's pool after a pool maintenance technician propped open the pool gate.
A $4 million settlement was secured for a wrongful death claim related to workplace chemical exposure on behalf of a 33-year-old man who left behind a wife and young child.
Following the death of a man at a local retailer, the premises liability team secured a $4 million settlement for his family.
In a wrongful death case, the family of a 38-year-old man received restitution upon his untimely death following a post-surgical complication related to a routine gastric bypass surgery. A CT scan revealed a partially obstructed bowel, but the hospital physicians failed to follow up. The man became septic and died.
A 20-year-old window washer who suffered extensive injuries, including a below-the-knee amputation of his left leg, after falling 30 feet from a hospital roof where he was working in 2002, received a settlement.
A 64-year-old-man had his life dramatically altered in September of 2011 after the physicians at Cook County Hospital made a medically negligent decision to have a cardiology fellow, under the supervision of an attending cardiologist, perform an elective, non-emergent and planned bedside pericardiocentesis.
An 85-year-old woman who survived the collapse of a supermarket roof received a record settlement for her injuries, which included a traumatic brain injury, a crushed right eye, and fractures. This was the highest award on record for an accident involving a survivor over age 80.
A female Plaintiff suffered life-changing spinal injuries when her car was rear-ended by a worker with a history of DUIs driving home in a company vehicle on I-294 South in the Chicago area.
In a record chiropractic malpractice verdict, a man suffered a sudden onset of paralysis from the chest down due to a growth in his thoracic spine that completely compromised his spinal cord. The chiropractor ignored X-rays of his lumbar spine, which revealed this progressive, degenerative disease, and performed chiropractic manipulations on that area of his back.
A male who was intoxicated at the time suffered severe injuries to his left leg when he was knocked down and his leg was run over by a bus. The bus driver violated standard CTA operating procedures by failing to maintain a three-foot clearance between the bus and the pedestrian.
A truck driver slipped and fell while getting out of his semi-tractor cab, suffering a closed head injury with post-traumatic seizure disorder and post-concussion syndrome and also sustained a herniated C4-5 disc with C5-6 nerve root compression, requiring laminectomy, and myofascial pain in the neck and shoulders.
A $3.4 million Product Liability settlement was obtained for a client who sustained injuries from industrial mixing equipment, accompanied by a large Workers’ Compensation lien waiver.
The Plaintiff, a 36-year-old truck driver, was helping to unload steel from his truck at the Alro Steel Co. when his right hand and wrist were crushed by a load of steel after the straps from the crane broke.
A 50-year-old male died as a result of an alleged failure to provide the worker with fall protection in an industrial accident. His family received a $3,350,000 settlement plus a workers’ compensation lien waiver.
A 50-year-old male, survived by his wife and two adult children, died in a fall at a job site in June of 2012. Allegedly, the defendant failed to provide fall protection equipment.
A $3.3 million settlement was reached on behalf of a four-year-old boy who fell out of a sixth-story window in a South Side Chicago housing complex.
On April 11, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, MN, Officer Kim Potter shot and killed Daunte Wright after he was stopped for an air freshener hanging from his car mirror.
A 39-year-old female with a history of uncontrolled diabetes presented to defendant E/R with fever and renal pain, but she was discharged, and future intervention was too late.
Negligence lawsuit settled with a major area hospital due to issues resulting from treatment after birth in 2000 in a Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit.
Settlement for the death of a 32-year-old woman after medical staff failed to provide basic care over 30 hours while she was in the ICU department.
Our client was admitted to the hospital with a severely herniated disc and, due to delayed and deficient surgery, lost motor and sensory function in his legs.
A 35-year-old male worker suffered aggravation of his prior spinal injury after being rear-ended by a semi-truck.
$2.75 million settlement on behalf of a 5-year-old boy for minor child abuse Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder resulting from negligence by two contractors of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
A $2.675 million settlement for a student-athlete who suffered traumatic brain injuries due to the failure to warn of the defective nature of a sports product.
A settlement was reached in the wrongful death suit of a Chicago-area family, whose devoted, hard-working, 50-year-old father suffered extreme burn injuries on the job and the factory did not call emergency services.
Romanucci & Blandin reached a $2.5 million settlement in a premises liability case after our client fell through an unguarded light shaft on the roof of a downtown Chicago apartment building.
