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Motherway, Glenn and Napleton has announced that Robert J. Glenn is leaving the firm effective January 1, 2003, ending a twenty year relationship with the firm and its predecessor, Motherway and Glenn. The firm will continue, as Motherway and Napleton, concentrating in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases. Glenn plans to enjoy a sabbatical and [...]

A $6.5 million settlement has been approved by Cook County Circuit Judge Bill Taylor in a lawsuit filed by a man who claimed that doctors negligently failed to administer an appropriate vaccine after his spleen was removed.
After years of health problems, Carl Musillo was diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis in 1995 at age 44.
Musillo claimed that [...]

On October 16, 2002, a Cook County jury awarded $165,000 to a woman who experienced
three minutes of “anesthesia awareness” while undergoing a caesarean section at South
Suburban Hospital. John M. Saletta, who represented the 36 year old mother, stated
that his client, although completely paralyzed, was awake and felt every cut of the
surgeon’s [...]

On October 15, 2002, Robert J. Napleton gave a speech at the Westin Hotel at an
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Seminar on the subject of “Liens on Personal Injury
Cases” before a large group of Chicago trial lawyers.

MacNeal Memorial Hospital has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging that nurses failed to monitor a 69-year-old patient after total knee replacement surgery.
Cook County Circuit Judge William D. Maddux, who presides over the Law Division, approved the settlement today.
Frank Perez, a retired sheet metal worker for Brach Candy Co., living [...]

John Saletta will be giving a speech on Jury Instructions in Chicago on September
14, 2002.

Cook County Circuit Judge William D. Maddux approved a settlement of nearly $1.4
million in a wrongful-death case involving a 35-year-old woman who died of a pulmonary
embolism, apparently after being misdiagnosed with dehydration at a suburban
hospital.
A day after being released from the hospital emergency room, the woman died of the
embolism, a severe [...]