Clifford Law Offices

Robert Clifford co-led the families of 68 people killed when American Eagle Flight 4184 iced over and crashed near Roselawn, Indiana, to a record $110 million settlement and an apology in open court.

A Cook County jury found plastic surgeon Dr. Ayoub Sayeg liable for the death of Idalia Corcoles, a 39-year-old mother of four who bled to death after liposuction and a tummy tuck, in a case that produced a $66.262 million judgment.

Clifford Law Offices secured a $60 million settlement for Sarah Grasser, 31, left paraplegic when another driver swerved to avoid a deep pothole in an I-55 work zone and struck her car, rolling it into a ditch.

A Cook County jury returned a $101 million verdict against West Suburban Medical Center after staff ignored fetal monitoring for six hours during labor, though a pre-verdict high-low agreement limited the family's recovery to $50 million.

A Cook County jury awarded Antonio DeAngelo $39.9 million, an Illinois record for a stroke case, after a physician tied to Advocate Physician Partners left his dangerously high blood pressure untreated.

A Cook County jury awarded the Yoder family $38.3 million after a multi-truck pileup on Interstate 90 near Rockford killed their four-year-old daughter and left their two-year-old son permanently disabled, and the verdict survived appeal in 2008.

A Cook County jury awarded $21.5 million, a state record for a drowning, after a six-year-old boy who could not swim was left unsupervised in a Bridgeview Park District camp pool, and an appellate court later affirmed the full award.

A Cook County jury awarded $7.25 million to a 32-year-old woman and her husband after surgical errors and a delayed response to postpartum hemorrhage during her cesarean delivery led to a hysterectomy that left her unable to have children.