About Katherine Dzik

Katherine Dzik is a partner at Cogan & Power, P.C. with over 25 years of experience in medical malpractice and wrongful death litigation. She has tried numerous cases to verdict and negotiated significant settlements throughout her career. Her background includes representing both patients and healthcare providers, which she draws on when building cases for plaintiffs.

Dzik holds an invitation-only membership in the Society of Trial Lawyers and has received Super Lawyer recognition from peer nomination and panel review. She serves on the Illinois State Bar Association Tort Law Section Council and is a member of the Women's Bar of Illinois. She has spoken on topics including medical malpractice case handling and medical error prevention.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Cogan & Power, P.C.

These results are credited to Cogan & Power, P.C.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$51.6 millionVerdict

A Kendall County jury awarded Logan Bland, a Marine Corps veteran left a quadriplegic after bar staff broke his neck while removing him from a Plano bar, $51.6 million in 2021. The award was reduced to roughly $41 million for Bland's 20 percent share of fault and stood as the largest verdict in county history until the Illinois Appellate Court reversed it in January 2023 and ordered a new trial.

Kendall County Circuit Court, Illinois · 2021Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$21.47 millionVerdict

Michael Parsons, a Norfolk Southern conductor, had his left foot crushed between two railcars at the company's 51st/55th Street yard in Chicago after 2010 track work narrowed the clearance between two adjacent tracks to as little as 10 feet 6 inches. A Cook County jury found Parsons zero percent negligent and awarded $22,474,102 in November 2015. The trial court ordered a $1 million remittitur from the lost-earnings portion of the award, which Parsons accepted, reducing the judgment to $21,474,102. The Illinois Appellate Court affirmed that judgment in August 2017, and the U.S. Supreme Court denied Norfolk Southern's petition for further review in October 2018.

Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (affirmed by the Illinois Appellate Court, First District) · 2015Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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