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About Thomas Murphy
Thomas H. Murphy is a partner at Cogan & Power, P.C. who joined the firm in July 2014. He has represented victims of negligence and medical malpractice since 2003, recovering over $230 million in verdicts and settlements. Before joining the plaintiffs' bar, he worked as a civil defense attorney representing hospitals and physicians in medical malpractice cases, experience he draws on when building cases for injured clients.
Notable results include a $30 million settlement for a child who suffered severe brain injury during labor and delivery and a $10 million settlement for a child whose cancer was misdiagnosed. Murphy has been recognized by Super Lawyers since 2018 and by the Leading Lawyers peer selection program since 2015. He serves as co-chair of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Medical Negligence Committee as of 2023.
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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