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About John Kralovec
John B. Kralovec is Of Counsel at Conboy Law Injury and Medical Malpractice Lawyers in Chicago. He earned his B.S. from the University of Illinois in 1978 and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1981. He has concentrated his practice on medical negligence and personal injury for more than 40 years and has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for clients throughout Illinois. Among his most notable results, he obtained a $51 million compensatory verdict on behalf of a client who was rendered quadriplegic in a collision with a dump truck, which stands as the highest Illinois compensatory verdict for a living personal injury plaintiff. He also obtained a $12,508,098 verdict on behalf of the family of a 12-year-old child who drowned after a home care nurse left the severely disabled child unattended in a bathtub, which was an Illinois record for the death of a child at the time.
He co-tried the $45.3 million verdict in Butts v. Joo while at Kralovec Jambois and Schwartz. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been selected to Super Lawyers continuously since 2005. He holds an AV Preeminent peer review rating of 5.0 from Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized by Leading Lawyers as among the top 5 percent of Illinois attorneys. He is a member of the American Association for Justice, the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and the South Suburban Bar Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Cook County jury awarded $45.3 million to Steven Butts, a 30-year-old Army veteran who suffered permanent brain damage after an Advocate Trinity Hospital ER doctor paralyzed him for intubation, placed the breathing tube in his esophagus, and left him without oxygen for about 11 minutes; the verdict and roughly $2.8 million in prejudgment interest were affirmed on appeal in 2024.
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