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About Michael Terranova
Michael C. Terranova is a partner at Cogan & Power, P.C. who concentrates his practice on representing injured railroad workers under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA). A United States Marine Corps veteran who served in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, he came to the law after working in the Riggers union and at U.S. Steel. He serves as legal counsel for the SMART Union and has tried FELA cases throughout Chicagoland and the Midwest.
He has created binding precedent in the Seventh Circuit and regularly speaks on FELA-related topics. Terranova holds a Certificate in Labor and Employment Law from Chicago-Kent College of Law. He serves as president of the Associate Board for Salute, Inc., a nonprofit supporting wounded veterans.
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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