Cannon & Dunphy S.C.

A Walworth County jury found Waukesha Memorial Hospital liable after a nurse pushed air into a two-week-old premature infant's IV line during a blood transfusion, sending emboli to his brain and leaving him with permanent quadriplegia and no usable speech.

A Milwaukee jury verdict and a related settlement delivered $25.24 million to a family after an unlicensed first-year resident spent 11 hours treating their teenage daughter for constipation while a twisted bowel killed the tissue it fed.

An Ozaukee County jury awarded the estate of Judith Cisewski $15 million after a retaining wall at her Port Washington senior living campus collapsed and buried her under concrete blocks for roughly two hours; she died the following day.

The family of a three-year-old girl who died of E. coli traced to contaminated beef at a South Milwaukee Sizzler reached a $13.5 million settlement, among the largest food-borne-illness recoveries in the country.

Cannon & Dunphy recovered $12 million for two families after an illegally overloaded cement truck ran a red light in Waukesha County, killing a van's driver and leaving a passenger with permanent brain injuries.

A 10-year-old boy was left with severe brain damage after the arterial and venous lines of a heart-lung machine were connected in reverse during open-heart surgery, and Cannon & Dunphy resolved the case for $10 million, reported as the first eight-figure personal injury settlement in Wisconsin history.

Cannon & Dunphy recovered $10 million for the husband and two children of a 37-year-old woman who was killed when a Waste Management truck ran a stop sign and struck her van in Kent County, Michigan.

A physician's morphine overdose left an 8-month-old boy at a La Crosse County, Wisconsin hospital with permanent brain damage, and the family's medical-malpractice claim resolved in a $10 million settlement handled by Cannon & Dunphy.

An 11-year-old boy lost his left arm in a commercial Laundromat washer whose door could be opened mid-cycle, and Cannon & Dunphy reached a multimillion-dollar product-liability recovery against the Belgian manufacturer and the machine's suppliers.

A 13.5-ton concrete panel fell from the O'Donnell Park parking structure in Milwaukee on June 24, 2010 and killed a 15-year-old boy. In November 2013 a Milwaukee County jury put 88 percent of the fault on Advance Cast Stone, found it had concealed a defect in the installation, and awarded the boy's estate and mother more than $6.8 million in compensatory damages. It also awarded $15 million in punitive damages against the company, shared with another injured family.