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About Michael Cogan
Michael P. Cogan is a founding partner of Cogan & Power, P.C. and has practiced personal injury and medical malpractice law in Chicago for over 40 years, entering private practice in 1983 after working at the general counsel's office of Michael Reese Hospital. Over the course of his career he has secured verdicts and settlements exceeding $220 million for his clients. Notable results include a $15.182 million verdict for a lung cancer misdiagnosis, an $11.4 million settlement for a patient left a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic after spinal surgery, and a $7 million settlement for permanent back pain caused by spinal surgery. Cogan holds an AV peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized by Illinois Super Lawyers. He serves as an adjunct professor and member of the Board of Visitors at UIC John Marshall Law School and has volunteered with Chicago Volunteer Legal Services since 1986.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cogan & Power, P.C.
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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.
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.
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