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About Miguel Ruiz
Miguel A. Ruiz is a partner and trial lawyer at Cogan & Power, P.C. whose practice centers on medical negligence, wrongful death, nursing home negligence, and motor vehicle and trucking accidents. He is a past president of the Society of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only membership organization, and has tried cases in state and federal courts throughout his career. Ruiz is an adjunct law professor and a frequent speaker at continuing legal education programs on topics including discovery, motion practice, damages, and jury selection.
He serves on the City of Chicago Board of Ethics and the Casa Central Board of Directors. His professional memberships include the Illinois State Bar Association, Wisconsin Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois, and the International Society of Barristers. He is fluent in Spanish.
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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