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About Corboy & Demetrio

Corboy & Demetrio is one of the nation's leading plaintiff personal injury and civil trial practice law firms, based in Chicago and founded in 1952 by Philip H. Corboy. The firm represents individuals and families in aviation accidents, construction negligence, medical malpractice, product liability, vehicular and trucking collisions, premises liability and wrongful death matters. Its trial lawyers have obtained more than $5 billion in verdicts and settlements, including nearly 600 cases exceeding $1 million each. The firm took its present name in 1982 when Thomas A. Demetrio became a name partner.

Proven verdicts and settlements won by Corboy & Demetrio

$75 millionSettlement

Thomas Demetrio of Corboy & Demetrio represented seven of the people killed and injured when a suspended work platform fell from the John Hancock Center in 2002, part of a $75 million global settlement reached on the eve of trial.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2006Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$42.4 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury found Advocate Condell Medical Center responsible for the death of a 47-year-old quadriplegic father who suffered fatal baclofen withdrawal while waiting for a delayed surgery to replace his medication pump, and the verdict was later affirmed on appeal.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2022Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$29.6 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded commuter Renea Poppel $29.6 million after a Metra Rock Island train took a 10 mph crossover at 69 mph and derailed, the largest Illinois verdict for one person injured in a mass-transit crash.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2009Read the full story →
$16.6 millionSettlement

After one of the deadliest building failures in Chicago history, Corboy & Demetrio's Francis Patrick Murphy led 14 of the victims and their families to a $16.6 million global settlement against the property owner and the porch builder.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2013Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$10.5 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury held the City of Chicago liable for the 2018 death of Tuong Lam, 61, who bled to death over about 17 minutes after a driver fleeing an unauthorized high-speed police pursuit struck his car.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2023Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$10 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded a Chicago physician $10 million, with $1 million more to her husband, after a severe fourth-degree tear from her 2010 delivery at Rush University Medical Center went undiagnosed.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 2016Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
Settlement

Thomas Demetrio negotiated a confidential settlement for Dr. David Dao, the 69-year-old physician dragged off an overbooked United flight at O'Hare in a 2017 video that spread around the world.

Chicago, IL · 2017Read the full story →
Settlement

Nearly nine years after seven Chicago-area people died from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules, founder Philip Corboy helped the victims' families reach a confidential settlement with McNeil Consumer Products as jury selection was about to begin.

Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, IL · 1991Product LiabilityRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Proven verdicts and settlements from other Chicago firms

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$110 million · American Eagle Flight 4184: $110 Million Crash Settlement and a Courtroom Apology
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Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.
$363 million · Sterigenics Verdict: $363 Million for a Willowbrook Cancer Survivor
Power Rogers LLP
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$100 million · Willis Family Wrongful Death Settlement: $100 Million After Six Children Killed in I-94 Truck Crash
Romanucci & Blandin
Romanucci & Blandin
$98.65 million · $98.65 Million Verdict for Family of Botham Jean, Shot in His Own Apartment by Off-Duty Dallas Officer
Smith LaCien LLP
Smith LaCien LLP
$702.7 million (class) · $702.7 Million Class Settlement Resolves Defective Takata Airbag Claims Against Honda and Nissan

Attorneys at Corboy & Demetrio

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