Chicago police engaged in a high speed, unauthorized chase for several miles. After the suspect stopped his car, his passenger, an unarmed female, gets out and police shoot and kill her.
While the victim was being detained by police outside a local restaurant, the victim runs down the street and is shot and killed while running away and unarmed.
Chicago police officer picks up the victim from a neighborhood street, takes her to her apartment
and sexually assaults her.
The teen victim was a resident in a juvenile detention center. He becomes unruly and is placed in a choke hold by security that caused him to lose consciousness and die.
The teen victim was in a dance club when a fight broke out. Security puts the victim in a choke hold then trips and falls while attempting to remove him from the club. The fall causes a traumatic brain injury.
One Chicago police officer arrested several men and women and falsely accused each of DUI. The false reports led to the false imprisonment and wrongful prosecution of six of our clients.
The 18-month-old girl was taken to the hospital by her mother after several days of breathing difficulty. The emergency room fails to recognize respiratory distress and delays advanced airway management for several minutes, which caused a serious brain injury.
56-year-old man underwent a routine surgery to remove his gallbladder when the hospital failed to timely recognize the surgeon had accidentally cut his intestines, which caused a serious infection that killed the victim.
35-year-old woman went to the emergency room due to serious headaches and dizziness. Emergency room failed to diagnose a serious sinus infection and sent her home with only allergy medication. The Infection worsened and led to removal of part of her skull.
69-year-old man acquired bed sores in a nursing home that led to a serious infection. His already deteriorating health and the infection led to his early death.
Nursing home staff allowed an 80-year-old man to fall and hit his head. The fall led to a concussion and significantly exacerbated his other illnesses.
35-year-old client was walking past an alley when a car sped out and struck his legs causing multiple fractures, surgery, and permanent disability.
A speeding school bus struck a car and seriously injured the passenger in the car. The passenger died several days later from his injuries.
A speeding school bus crashed while carrying a basketball team to its game. Our client was a 14-year-old who suffered a brain injury with some cognitive impairment.
Taxi driver ran a stop sign and caused a crash that injured his 60-year-old female passenger. She suffered multiple fractures. None required surgery.
A driver ran a stop sign and her car crashed into our clients while they were riding a motorcycle. They suffered hand fractures that did not require surgery.
18-year-old man falls in an elevator shaft after he entered the shaft believing the elevator car was there. Poor lighting and a malfunctioning elevator led to the fall and our client’s fractured spine.
23-year-old man was cleaning the inside of a sugar silo when the hardened sugar fell from the walls of the silo and buried him. Our client then suffocated.
An 8-year-old boy was in the swimming pool at his apartment complex when he drowned in the poorly maintained pool because the water was too murky for other swimmers to see that he was in trouble.
