Legal Archives From 2012

A Cook County jury awarded $27,672,152.15 to a woman who suffered paralysis below her chest in a car accident.   Nancy Hoffman, 59, lost use of her lower extremities in 2002 when a semitrailer truck struck her car on Interstate 80 in Iowa.  The truck driver transported steel coils to Iowa and was returning to… Read More

A Cook County jury awarded a nearly $1.6 million verdict in favor of a woman who suffered nerve injury following reconstructive surgery in 2007.    Don M. Sowers, Jr. and John C. Coyne of Motherway & Napleton, LLP, represented the woman, Catalina Merchan, in her medical malpractice claim against Robert Lai, M.D.   In June… Read More

Illinois Super Lawyers® is a magazine published by attorneys exclusively for attorneys and adheres to a rigorous selection process.  The only way a lawyer can be listed in Illinois Super Lawyers magazine is through this selection process.  The Super Lawyers selection process consists of a statewide survey of lawyers, peer nominations, a blue ribbon panel… Read More