List of Services

• $775,000 Rehab Nursing Fall Causes Fatal Head Injury
  $775,000 settlement for wrongful death $775,000
• $450,000 Heel Fracture at Work Ends Career
  $450,000 settlement for future lost wages $450,000
• $3,000,000 Coogan Gallagher Client Story Featured
  As noted, the case has since settled. The hospital agreed to pay $2.6 million now and drop their appeal. This case was also the subject of a June blog post. $3,000,000
• $3,000,000 Heart Procedure Leads to Death
  James Coogan and Caroleann Gallagher presented the case before a jury that found the doctor negligent and entered a verdict for $3,000,000. $3,000,000
• $3,050,000 Construction-Electrical Injury
  $3,050,000 $3,050,000
• $450,000 Storm Window Smashes Neck
  $450,000 $450,000
• $1,250,000 Para-Transit Injury Results In Death
  $1,250,000 $1,250,000
• $517,000 Fall At Work Ends Career
  $517,000 After five years of benefits and medical treatment for his injuries, a settlement was reached of $517,000. $517,000
• $545,000 Car Crash Neck & Spinal Injury
  $98,878 The case was assigned to a judge for a jury trial when the insurance companies combined to pay $545,000 to settle his claims rather than have a trial. $545,000
• $2,000,000 Truck Crash Rear-End
  $2,000,000 Our firm was able to get the Truck’s insurance company to turn over the full amount of their available insurance money, nearly $2 Million dollars, and the case was resolved in only 7 months. $2,000,000
• $144,332 Work Injury–Back Strains
  Our attorneys were able to settle these multiple injuries without a trial for a favorable sum of $144,332. $144,332
• Private Settlement Hip Product Failure–Disconnection
  Our attorneys engaged the manufacturer in a mediation process and were able to settle the case privately. Private Settlement
• $287,000 T-Bone Car Crash–Multiple Injuries
  Our attorneys were able to advise our clients about the importance that insurance limits would have in this case. The driver who struck our clients carried only $50,000.00 in liability coverage per incident. The case settled for that amount for each of our clients, and then a claim for “Underinsured Motorist Benefits” was settled with the client’s insurance carrier for an additional total of $286,547.00. $287,000
• $1,600,000 Speaker Falls & Kills Plaintiff
  A settlement was reached on behalf of the parents and sibling of the decedent. $1,600,000
• $99,000 Work Comp Trial–Permanent Hand Injury
  $98,878 This case was tried before an IWCC Arbitrator in Chicago, who awarded the Petitioner the equivalent of nearly 100% loss of use of her hand. $99,000
• $200,000 ERCP Punctures Bowel–Infection & Death
  As a result of the bowel leak, the Plaintiff sustained a serious infection that damaged her entire abdomen. This put too much stress on her system, and she ultimately died. Even at her advanced age, the matter was settled for $200,000. $200,000
• $600,000 Suicide–Failure to Treat
  Our attorneys brought a on behalf of his mother for the wrongful death, which settled for $600,000. $600,000
• $117,000 Fall in Doorway–Fractured Hip Joint
  This was tried before a private Arbitrator, who awarded the Plaintiff $116,800 (after a partial reduction for the Plaintiff’s responsibility for the fall). $117,000
• $250,000 Construction Site Fall–Two Knee Surgeries
  This case was tried before a Cook County jury who awarded the plaintiff over $250,000.00. However, because the jury decided the Plaintiff was partially to blame for his fall & injuries, the Verdict was reduced by law. $250,000
• $475,000 Failure of Circular Saw–Loss of Thumb
  Our attorneys engaged a power tool expert to thoroughly inspect the saw and discover the manufacturing flaw. We sued the seller of the saw and investigated the source of where the saw came from and proved the flaw, settling the matter with them for $475,000. $475,000