Chicago, Illinois A 71 year old woman received a $1,500,000 settlement from an unnamed hip implant manufacturer whose metal hip fractured after 3-1/2 years of use. A lawsuit was filed in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, on behalf of Margaret Spizzirri by her attorneys Tom Leahy and Michael Alkaraki of Leahy & Hoste, Chicago. Ms. Spizzirri…
By Pat Milhizer Law Bulletin staff writer A Cook County judge approved a $15 million settlement this week that a hospital agreed to pay to a 6-year-old boy who lost most of his small intestine and part of his colon after his birth, the boy’s attorney said. Tyson McCarney was born in 2005 at Loyola…
Crain’s Chicago Business By Lynne Marek (Crain’s) — Four former Merrill Lynch brokers in Chicago are pressing their ex-employer, now owned by Bank of America Corp., to pay about $3 million in compensation they argue is owed to them. The brokers filed in Chicago for arbitration of their dispute, says Tom Leahy, an attorney at…
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin By Bethany Krajelis Law Bulletin staff writer SPRINGFIELD – An individual’s right to have a jury decide damages is at risk if the Illinois Supreme Court does not reverse an appellate court ruling that sharply reduced a punitive damages award, the state’s trial lawyers argue. In a friend of the court…
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin By Stephanie Potter Law Bulletin staff writer The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to review 497 cases, including a $19.2 million award to the family of a man killed in a 1999 collision with two tractor-trailer trucks. William J. Tengler, a 28 year-old tool-and-die maker, was a passenger in a…
Leahy & Hoste partner Peter Hoste was recently named to the Law Bulletin Publishing Company’s list of “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch,” which hailed him as “one of the best personal-injury and medical-malpractice specialists in the city” and praised his work on behalf of a 50-year-old electrician who died of a heart attack…
Largest wrongful death verdict ever affirmed Chicago Daily Law Bulletin By Stephanie Potter Law Bulletin staff writer The 1st District Appellate Court on Friday affirmed a $19.2 million award to the family of a man killed in 1999 when two tractor-trailer trucks struck his car. The size of the Cook County jury’s verdict in favor…
